No More HardCoding Wifi and timezones data - Programing Personalized Clocks for Friends

[@wesleyswafford2462]

Sorry to hear that some friends weren't so nice about you having a KZbin channel. I really enjoy your videos, and have learned a lot from them. I watched until the end, though if I'm being honest, it took me about an hour or so since I'm watching this in the morning, and I like to make coffee and go outside for a smoke etc.. The video wasn't too long though, seemed fine.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you for watching whole video. I also have my morning rutine.😀

[@AtGnat8]

I’m enjoying my morning routine now. 😂

[@benjamilindqvist912]

Your channel might be one of the most helpful on all of KZbin for anyone interested in these kinds of products and projects. Personally, I had no idea how to build any type of user interface before I found your channel, and you are the only one teaching the things I need to learn. If some of your friends don't like that you're working as a pioneering teacher on KZbin, I'm sorry, but I wouldn't call them your friends since they clearly want you to hide your best qualities. You should let it all out! By the way, your ukulele project was also great. Don't think you're just "explaining something simple." What you're teaching is not simple at all, but somehow you manage to do it in relatively short videos with a calming voice, and you're always on point. It's easy to watch your videos without skipping anything because everything is always nice and relevant. Thank you! We need more people like you on KZbin!

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you, i think i agree with you about friends. Thank you for your support and for this nice comment. Comments like this make my day better😀

[@pfeerick]

I also watched this to the end. I don't watch all of your videos, but every now and then watch one, and usually learn something new or interesting from each. Thank you for the content! :)

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you my friend.

[@garywong7595]

Thankful of what you have done. After watching few latest video, I start to dig all your old video and start to play around with the screen I had.

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx Garry, have fun 😀

[@Error_Log]

Hi Volos! I enjoy watching/listening to your videos as technical person. You give me great ideas for my next project with very helpful, simple use case explanations. Of course I watch all the way through your videos :)

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx, I always enjoj reading comments like this. Thank you my friend.

[@danielsnyder6900]

I watch your videos to the end, really enjoy the content. Each topic you present is another technique that I find useful, thank you.

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx Daniel, i am glad you found this useful. Thank you.

[@mtbiker8]

I could watch a whole day of your videos. Always informative, well presented and excellent content.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you😀

[@kevinlieb]

You didn't touch on the web interface part and how this works. This is the most interesting aspect for me! I'll check your code.

[@sannyrocha2513]

Thank you for this new amazing video and as every project your designs are beautiful. I have seen it completely. Thank you again, I always learn a lot in your Channel.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you, glad you enjojed.

[@mpwsh]

Of course watched the whole video. I always like what you share, Volos. Your projects are super inspiring and original, you pack a lot of valuable information!

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx man!

[@sandrarocha2436]

I have just realized that I wrote the message on the account of my other cell. Well, only to reaffirm: thank you for your video, and as with every project your designs are amazing. I have seen it completely. Thank you again. I have always learned a lot from your channel.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you Sandra you were always nice and so suportive. Thank you again.

[@markweir3653]

I spend a lot of time on your excellent channel and I watch every video to the end. Many of the videos are on my favourites and I have watched them several times. Please ignore the negativity and keep the great content coming.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you Mark, i will try!

[@rdyer8764]

You bet! I watched the whole thing. Always good stuff.

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx 😀

[@christiangoy2554]

You also have your KZbin friends who understand all your work and are so happy to see your videos and test your sketches !

[@VolosProjects]

Thats true. That is also reason i am making thease videos. Thank you.

[@zpeters]

Not only did I watch the whole video [rare], I loved it all. Thanks so much for this.

[@VolosProjects]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.

[@segwaydave]

I love it when you release a new video. Keep up the great work as I have learned ALOT!

[@VolosProjects]

@@segwaydave tnx man, glad to hear that.

[@robertcloutier8839]

Yes, I watched the whole video. Thank you for sharing. I love your videos!

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you Robert, have a njce day 😀

[@CNC1Hobby]

Watched to the end. Very informative and will work to include time in my project using this method.

[@hercules13098]

I always watch your full videos.

[@johnhunter9877]

Volos, I find your video and projects very informative and inspiring, I alays watch your video's to the end and sometime more than once if it alines with a project I'm working on. Keep it going.

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx John, i will😀

[@FiveEights-.625]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@pablollarena7511]

Hi, very good, you are incredible to programming, and you do very fast, when you see it, looks very easy, but it is not! Amazing.

[@ChrisZang]

Thank you. I learned so much from your videos!

[@armanfarzin6989]

you are crazy dude💯💯💯

[@VeniceInventors]

"the rest are very confused" 🤣 Priceless! I wonder if using WPS mode would be a good option? It does require pressing a button on the router (which wouldn't be an option on public wifi) but it's even easier to do than connecting to the device from a phone/computer and opening the web configuration. The code could fallback to AP mode if WPS failed to join after a few attempts.

[@VolosProjects]

@@VeniceInventors yes, they dont understand what i do for living since i quit my job 😀

[@homersrevenge3691]

I really enjoy your videos 👍

[@mikepanchaud1]

Hi, I enjoy your videos and did watch to the end! 10 mins is fine , or longer if needed.

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx Mike, yes sometimes 10 min is not enough.

[@andrew2004sydney]

Fantastic project! Thanks

[@VolosProjects]

Glad you like it!

[@kaeltas00]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@williammiller7543]

I've been looking for a way to automatically set the location and time zone data rather than having to recompile when I travel to a new location. This is GREAT. Thanks. I also have an Astronomical Switch that turns my lights ON/OFF based on time and location. I'll try to get it into that program also.

[@williammiller7543]

Is anyone aware of a site that can convert the City/state that is in the API call to a LON and LAT info. Needed for Dusk to Dawn calcs.

[@stathissim]

bro Έλληνας είσαι; φίλε κάνεις απίστευτα πράγματα μπράβο!

[@VolosProjects]

No, i am Craotian, but i know you have town called Volos in greek. One day i will visit it :)

[@djokinac]

odlichno skockano kao i uvek komplimenti

[@VolosProjects]

@@djokinac hvala prijatelju, jesi izvrcao sta?

[@djokinac]

@@VolosProjects nazalost nisam jer kod mene mesecima nije bilo kishe a cvet neki nepamtim kad sam video nediram nista iz kosnica za vrcanje pozdravi caleta i puno uspeha i tebi i njemu

[@VolosProjects]

Svida mi se tvoj eko pristup. Nadam se da mozes naplatiti tu kvalitetu u srbiji

[@djokinac]

@@VolosProjects ha Ni u snu 1000 din znachi manje od 10€ Ali sta je tu je Vishe me muchi reuma najvishe u prstima ruke i nemohu da podizem nastavke Pozdrav

[@mpicuser]

Hello, thank you for this video.

[@garciawallace7106]

Hi Volos , your videos are very informative man I learned a lot from your videos everytime I watch I soon as I get comfortable watching you explain the code the 10mins expires lol. Question about the graphics with the ( rotating seconds) I have a 5" elecrow and I use squareline studio and lvgl for graphics but I would like to do something Kool like that. Can I use the tft-espi library on the elecrow display to create graphics like that?

[@danbeldiman4083]

Thanks - great Video! 10 minutes is ok, if it is interesting content! About the wifi solution, did you look into using the WPS functionality to connect to WIFIs. Where you have to press the WPS button on the router, and somehow activate it on the device? While the own hotspot is a good technical solution, it will be complicated for non-tech people.

[@VolosProjects]

@@danbeldiman4083 i need to try that, thank you.

[@Xtremevlog]

Please continue the basic tutorials

[@muhdkamilmohdbaki7054]

I think you can use simpler code to set the ESP32Time by using the offsets & "unix_time" fields you get from worldtimeapi instead of string parsing, probably. The rtc(offset) constructor already accepts offset and a variant of the setTime() method accepts time in milliseconds since epoch aka unix time. This could work in theory but I never work with hardware in practice and I also don't know much about C programming😅.

[@hopje01]

If possible a would add also a fallback to manually enter the offset. You never know if this worldtimeapi service in the future will stop, or change there data layout.

[@elektron2kim666]

I use GPS for my M5Stack clocks. Got many RTC modules, so I write some lines to transfer the date/time from space.

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx, also cool aproach

[@Sekhar_Home]

U shaking hand and changing products very quickly.. exactly what u want to say.

[@wrongtown]

Seems very clear to me mate.

[@robertdylanaragon]

any chance you could add the atoms3 clocks to the m5 burner? im somewhere between skrate up dumb, and just unlucky with arduino.

[@dfn808]

Another excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing 👍 Yes, I watched the whole video 😁

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you 😀

[@MegaGnar-n5x]

Is it possible to have these projects in bin files? Really love that fancy clock. Having some issue running Arduino ide on my pc😢. I'm using a T-display amoled non-touching version.

[@MegaGnar-n5x]

I also watched it to the very end cause I don't want to miss any information! Thx for the video! ❤

[@dcmotive]

Friends reacted badly. Ha ha, I think most youtube posters have the same response. Nice work. Will the api/ip setup work if your "friend" is using a vpn?

[@VolosProjects]

Yep 😀 i an not sure, i never used vpn but i think it will work.

[@Dmittry]

The response contains UNIX time. Can you set this value to internal clock? I suspect it's what year, month, day etc. is converted to. If it's possible you can avoid parsing of data string and conversion of DateTime to integer.

[@VolosProjects]

yes i can probably :) Thank you!

[@kesmik]

Hey! Firstly, I would like to say that your videos are great and informative, gui looks awesome, but the code is a bit dirty. I am not saying anything about the logic or selected solutions but what triggers me the most is code formating. It looks inconsistant, some random indentations, different approach to brackets etc. I think it is the easy thing to improve especially that you can use some tools to do that automatically. Also as an idea since you work with graphics you can try some design pattern such as MVP to make code structured a bit beter. I do not want to sound negative, just my thoughts, since I believe that the code (especially shared with others) should be easily readable by other people

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you, you are totaly right i shod spend more time to make nicer code, i know that my code is in mess and sometimes hard to read. I will try to make it better.... but i have that problem whole life, you need to see my notebook from lower grades, nobody cant read that 😀

[@mclaren1141]

Can I buy a pre made one?

[@tubeDude48]

👍

[@bevangeue1977]

Hi mate, can I connect with you about a project my son and I are doing we just need some advice. Have to buy some coffees

[@PsYxD]

i have liligo t display s3 ...model no touch, are very good too

[@VolosProjects]

@@PsYxD yes, it will work

[@austinanil1142]

SIR PLEASE REPLY, can we program such graphics for atmega 32?

[@VolosProjects]

@@austinanil1142 i am afraid not, atmega is to slow

[@AndrewARGO]

Who makes UI design for all of your projects?

[@VolosProjects]

I make all by my self

[@AndrewARGO]

@@VolosProjects all of them looks really cool and professional!

[@VolosProjects]

@@AndrewARGO thank you 😀

[@TPUSILL]

can this be done using python?

[@thompsonmachine7075]

I have completed most of your projects with no problem but the WiFi manager portion of this video is not clear to me.

[@VolosProjects]

@@thompsonmachine7075 did you upload this example? Wifi manager is used to conect board to wifi. If you uploaded this example and if you are using baord that was never conected to your wifi, than wifi manager will make new wifi network , you need to use your laptop to connect to that wifinetwork with password password. You will be redirected to browser where you can enter your wifi name and password which will be stored in esp32 memory.

[@thompsonmachine7075]

@@VolosProjects thank you, I have been using the same board for all the projects.

[@martingerhardsoos]

wow, so many tricks I learned here. Thanks a not!

[@MegaGnar-n5x]

Is it possible to have these projects in bin files? Really love that fancy clock. Having some issue running Arduino ide on my pc😢. I'm using a T-display amoled non-touching version.

[@VolosProjects]

Ok, i can make bin for you.

[@MegaGnar-n5x]

@@VolosProjects Much appreciated