ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:29 am #86423 Can anyone give me some hints / guidance / examples / sketches to achieve the following please?

Using an ESP8266 with WiFi and a relè I wish to achieve the following:

a) once a day fetch the nautical or astronomical time for my geolocation
b) when that time arrives activate the relais for a given number of seconds (approx 15)

No idea on how to achieve this as I am very new to all of this.

Thank you very much

- Sat Apr 11, 2020 3:01 am #86426 You need to give more information about the board as there are probably over 15 variants.

For some code etc. you can search the web with your board type. Try not to be to specific about the data as you may be better using weather instead of nautical as it will be the same code and just needs modification.

I use the Arduino IDE and there are examples you can try.

- Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:35 am #86530 This are the little boards with relais that I have received:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3289052 ... 4c4duXejSU

I did try to search on Google but could not find anything suitable. Will try more.

Thank you very much.

- Tue Apr 14, 2020 2:17 am #86532 You have not picked a very good board to learn with, I started with a NodeMcu which is a development board and a lot simpler to use.
I have not read the documentation yet but to start with you may need a way to program it if there is no code installed which unless you buy a programming board you will need to do something like this: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/projec ... duino-ide/