Making a clock [Help]

1

Hi,

I would like to display/refresh 3 different data on the panel, like the image below:
image
(date, time, cronometer)

To get to the result showed on the image with another library i made the following:

if (millis()%1000 == 0) //enters here each second
{
display.date;
display.time;
display.cronometer;
}

But indexedLayer.swapBuffers(); does not work with the if (millis()%1000 == 0), it does not enters here each second so, how could i do that?

@Louis

2

Your code would only work if you did the check during the 1 millisecond window where millis() ends in 000. You should check instead to see if the delay is equal to or greater than 1000. e.g.

if (currentMillis - blinkStartMillis >= blinkPeriod) //test whether the period has elapsed

More details here: Using millis() for timing. A beginners guide - Introductory Tutorials - Arduino Forum

3

Thanks. It seems to work.
But the main problem remains: Looks like i cant use time library with SmartMatrix, like if both re using the same timer.
Im just trying to:

currentMillis = millis();
if (currentMillis - startMillis >= period)
{
LocalTime();
indexedLayer.drawString(0, 0, 1, hour);
}

But as the LocalTime is being executed it out of blue goes to another part of the code, like a goto.

Any ideas?

I just want to make a clock (without using external RTC if possible)

4

Looks like NTP gets the job done. Thanks anyway.