_timezoneName never getting set?

[increpare]

Hi, wonderful project! :)

Is it me or is the detected timezone never finding its way to the ESP, despite _timezoneName being defined but unused in https://github.com/khoih-prog/ESP_WiFiManager/blob/master/src_cpp/ESP_WiFiManager.h#L517 ?

(If the "bug" is that the line should just be deleted, if you could give me a hint as to if there's some way to access the timezone that I'm missing, I'd appreciate it :) ).

[khoih-prog]

Thanks for your interests in the library and some good research to come across the not-yet-implementation feature.

To enable TZ, you have to enable in sketch

#define USE_ESP_WIFIMANAGER_NTP     true

as you can see in the first image at So, how it works?

The _timezoneName was slipped into the crack somehow, and I forget now what I intended to do with it. It was started long time ago due to this Feature Request! Firmware and Data (SPIFFS) update OTA and NTP Timezone #5

I think you can get the data easily from the HTML script ESP_WiFiManager.h #L155-L159 by writing some code to interface with HTML. Check similar way at handleRequest()

I'm currently busy and have no time to deal with this issue. If possible, you can help and write some code to do that, then make a PR to merge into the library.

Best Regards,

[increpare]

Thank you so much for the prompt and helpful reply. I'll look into putting together a PR :)

[khoih-prog]

Hi @increpare

Did you come up with the way to retrieve _timezoneName yet to make a PR?

If not, please let me know so that I'll do it as there is a new request for that _timezoneName in this twin library.

How to retrieve timezone? #51

It's a coincidence that there are more people interested in this, so that we have to implement the feature soon.

Regards,

[khoih-prog]

Hi,

I already add the new requested feature and will publish new release within tomorrow.

Hereafter is the debug terminal

Starting Async_ConfigOnDoubleReset using LittleFS on ESP32_DEV
ESPAsync_WiFiManager v1.8.0
ESP_DoubleResetDetector v1.1.1
ESP Self-Stored: SSID = HueNet1, Pass = password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
Got ESP Self-Stored Credentials. Timeout 120s for Config Portal
[WM] LoadWiFiCfgFile 
[WM] OK
[WM] stationIP = 192.168.2.232 , gatewayIP = 192.168.2.1
[WM] netMask = 255.255.255.0
[WM] dns1IP = 192.168.2.1 , dns2IP = 8.8.8.8
Got stored Credentials. Timeout 120s for Config Portal
Current Timezone is America/New_York        <===============  The timezone Name stored in Flash/EEPROM
LittleFS Flag read = 0xD0D04321
No doubleResetDetected
Saving config file...
Saving config file OK
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet2 , PW =  password
ConnectMultiWiFi in setup
[WM] ConnectMultiWiFi with :
[WM] * Flash-stored Router_SSID =  HueNet1 , Router_Pass =  password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Additional SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Additional SSID =  HueNet2 , PW =  password
[WM] Connecting MultiWifi...
[WM] WiFi connected after time:  1
[WM] SSID: HueNet1 ,RSSI= -30
[WM] Channel: 2 ,IP address: 192.168.2.232
After waiting 10.94 secs more in setup(), connection result is connected. Local IP: 192.168.2.232
Stop doubleResetDetecting
Saving config file...
Saving config file OK
HHHHHHHHHH HHH

[increpare]

Very nice. I didn't get around to implementing it in the end - I ended up throwing in a dropdown box with timezones instead (actually maybe not using this library, but a different one for some reason I can't remember), which was good enough for me.

[khoih-prog]

The ESPAsync_WiFiManager Releases v1.8.0 has just been published to update _timezoneName and more. I'll update this ESP_WiFiManager to include the same features.

Your enhancement request / bug report, leading to new v1.8.0, has also been noted in Contributions and Thanks

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Major Releases v1.8.0

1. Add auto-Timezone feature with variable _timezoneName (e.g. America/New_York) and function to retrieve TZ (e.g. EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0) to use directly to configure ESP32/ESP8266 timezone. Check How to retrieve timezone? #51
2. Store those _timezoneName and TZ in LittleFS or SPIFFS config file.
3. Using these new timezone feature is optional.
4. Add checksum in config file to validate data read from LittleFS or SPIFFS config file.
5. Update examples to show how to use the new TZ feature.

[khoih-prog]

The new feature will provide the complex TZ ( for example TZ = EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0) so that you can use directly in ESP32/ESP8266 code as follows

#if ESP8266
      configTime(WM_config.TZ, "pool.ntp.org"); 
#else
      //configTzTime(WM_config.TZ, "pool.ntp.org" );
      configTzTime(WM_config.TZ, "time.nist.gov", "0.pool.ntp.org", "1.pool.ntp.org");
#endif

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The debug terminal outputs

1. ESP8266

Starting Async_ConfigOnDoubleReset_TZ using LittleFS on ESP8266_NODEMCU
ESPAsync_WiFiManager v1.8.0
ESP_DoubleResetDetector v1.1.1
ESP Self-Stored: SSID = HueNet1, Pass = password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
Got ESP Self-Stored Credentials. Timeout 120s for Config Portal
[WM] LoadWiFiCfgFile 
[WM] OK
[WM] stationIP = 192.168.2.188 , gatewayIP = 192.168.2.1
[WM] netMask = 255.255.255.0
[WM] dns1IP = 192.168.2.1 , dns2IP = 8.8.8.8
Got stored Credentials. Timeout 120s for Config Portal
[WM] Current TZ_Name = America/Toronto , TZ =  EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0   <======= TZ name and TZ here
LittleFS Flag read = 0xD0D04321
No doubleResetDetected
Saving config file...
Saving config file OK
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet2 , PW =  password
ConnectMultiWiFi in setup
[WM] ConnectMultiWiFi with :
[WM] * Flash-stored Router_SSID =  HueNet1 , Router_Pass =  password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Additional SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Additional SSID =  HueNet2 , PW =  password
[WM] Connecting MultiWifi...
[WM] WiFi connected after time:  1
[WM] SSID: HueNet1 ,RSSI= -42
[WM] Channel: 2 ,IP address: 192.168.2.188
After waiting 3.49 secs more in setup(), connection result is connected. Local IP: 192.168.2.188
Stop doubleResetDetecting
Saving config file...
Saving config file OK
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 12:34:50 2021   <==== correct local time
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 12:35:50 2021
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 12:36:50 2021
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 12:37:50 2021
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 12:38:50 2021

2. ESP32

Starting Async_ConfigOnDoubleReset_TZ using LittleFS on ESP32_DEV
ESPAsync_WiFiManager v1.8.0
ESP_DoubleResetDetector v1.1.1
ESP Self-Stored: SSID = HueNet1, Pass = password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
Got ESP Self-Stored Credentials. Timeout 120s for Config Portal
[WM] LoadWiFiCfgFile 
[WM] OK
[WM] stationIP = 192.168.2.232 , gatewayIP = 192.168.2.1
[WM] netMask = 255.255.255.0
[WM] dns1IP = 192.168.2.1 , dns2IP = 8.8.8.8
Got stored Credentials. Timeout 120s for Config Portal
[WM] Current TZ_Name = America/New_York , TZ =  EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0   <======= TZ name and TZ here
LittleFS Flag read = 0xD0D04321
No doubleResetDetected
Saving config file...
Saving config file OK
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet2 , PW =  password
ConnectMultiWiFi in setup
[WM] ConnectMultiWiFi with :
[WM] * Flash-stored Router_SSID =  HueNet1 , Router_Pass =  password
[WM] * Add SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Additional SSID =  HueNet1 , PW =  password
[WM] * Additional SSID =  HueNet2 , PW =  password
[WM] Connecting MultiWifi...
[WM] WiFi connected after time:  1
[WM] SSID: HueNet1 ,RSSI= -40
[WM] Channel: 2 ,IP address: 192.168.2.232
After waiting 10.95 secs more in setup(), connection result is connected. Local IP: 192.168.2.232
Stop doubleResetDetecting
Saving config file...
Saving config file OK
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 11:52:50 2021  <==== correct local time
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 11:53:50 2021
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 11:54:50 2021
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 11:55:50 2021
Local Date/Time: Sat May  1 11:56:50 2021