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MicroPython ESP8266 - ESP-12 Web Clock

This document describes a simple web clock project using a MicroPython-enabled ESP8266 board connected to an OLED display. It uses the built-in WiFi module to connect to the internet and query a web API for the current date and time. This information is used to continuously update the internal RTC and display the time on the OLED.

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MicroPython ESP8266 - ESP-12 Web Clock

This document describes a simple web clock project using a MicroPython-enabled ESP8266 board connected to an OLED display. It uses the built-in WiFi module to connect to the internet and query a web API for the current date and time. This information is used to continuously update the internal RTC and display the time on the OLED.

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Very Simple MicroPython ESP8266/ESP-12 Web Clock

A tutorial of building a web clock with only an ESP8266/ESP-12 board and an SSD1306 OLED display by using built-in modules of MicroPython.
# ESP8266 MicroPython Web Clock
# by Alan Wang

import network
import urequests
import ujson
import utime
import ssd1306
import machine
from machine import RTC, I2C, Pin

# user data
ssid = "ssid" # wifi router name
pw = "pw" # wifi router password
url = "http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/Asia/Taipei" # see http://worldtimeapi.org/timezones
web_query_delay = 60000 # interval time of web JSON query
retry_delay = 5000 # interval time of retry after a failed Web query

# initialization

# SSD1306 OLED display


print("Connecting to wifi...")
oled = ssd1306.SSD1306_I2C(128, 64, I2C(scl=Pin(5), sda=Pin(4)))
oled.fill(0)
oled.text("Connecting", 0, 5)
oled.text(" to wifi...", 0, 15)
oled.show()

# internal real time clock


rtc = RTC()

# wifi connection
wifi = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF) # station mode
wifi.active(True)
wifi.connect(ssid, pw)

# wait for connection


while not wifi.isconnected():
pass
# wifi connected
print("IP: " + str(wifi.ifconfig()[0]) + "\n")
oled.text("Connected. IP: ", 0, 35)
oled.text(" " + str(wifi.ifconfig()[0]), 0, 45)
oled.show()

# set timer
update_time = utime.ticks_ms() - web_query_delay

# main loop
while True:

# if lose wifi connection reboot ESP8266


if not wifi.isconnected():
machine.reset()

# query and get web JSON every web_query_delay ms


if utime.ticks_ms() - update_time >= web_query_delay:

# HTTP GET data


response = urequests.get(url)

if response.status_code == 200: # query success

print("JSON response:\n" + response.text)

# parse JSON
parsed = ujson.loads(response.text) # you can also use parsed = response.json()
datetime_str = str(parsed["datetime"])
year = int(datetime_str[0:4])
month = int(datetime_str[5:7])
day = int(datetime_str[8:10])
hour = int(datetime_str[11:13])
minute = int(datetime_str[14:16])
second = int(datetime_str[17:19])
subsecond = int(round(int(datetime_str[20:26]) / 10000))

# update internal RTC


rtc.datetime((year, month, day, 0, hour, minute, second, subsecond))
update_time = utime.ticks_ms()
print("RTC updated\n")
else: # query failed, retry retry_delay ms later
update_time = utime.ticks_ms() - web_query_delay + retry_delay

# generate formated date/time strings from internal RTC


date_str = "{:02}/{:02}/{:4}".format(rtc.datetime()[1], rtc.datetime()[2], rtc.datetime()[0])
time_str = "{:02}:{:02}:{:02}".format(rtc.datetime()[4], rtc.datetime()[5], rtc.datetime()[6])

# update SSD1306 OLED display


oled.fill(0)
oled.text("ESP8266 Clock", 0, 5)
oled.text("Date: " + date_str, 0, 25)
oled.text("Time: " + time_str, 0, 45)
oled.show()

utime.sleep(0.1)

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