Wise Clock 4 - March 2019 software release
A long overdue (3+ years since the previous one?>finally here. This one compiles on Arduino 1.6.7 (and later) and has a few code improvements, most of them courtesy of MikeM:
- created a display abstraction layer that will allow porting the display functions away from HT1632 Sure displays; essentially, any new "compatible" (min 16x32 resolution) display can be supported by implementing the set of functions declared in DisplayBase.h; currently, the HT1632 functions are defined in DisplayHT1632.cpp class;
- eliminated the need to set the day-of-week, which is now calculated from date (Zeller method);
- introduced the option to use MiniGPS class instead of TinyGPS, which saves some program memory and also RAM; the improved GPS code uses now a new setting in messages.txt (utc.offset);
- some bug fixes related to buffer overruns when getting the weather RSS data; Mike discovered this issue after switching to a new weather service (http://www.rssweather.com/zipcode/27612/rss.php), since the old one (e.g. http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KRDU.rss) is no longer supported (protocol was changed to https, which cannot be handled by the current ESP8266 class);
As a reminder note, the ESP8266 and GPS-related changes mentioned above should also find their way into the WiFiChron code, sometime.
Recently, Nick sent this photo of his stack (stash?) of WiFiChrons.
[original story: Wise time with Arduino]