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Easily check the accuracy of the RTC from the ESP32

Chech the accuracy of the ESP32 RTC and show on display and save dates on Webserver

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Easily check the accuracy of the RTC from the ESP32

Things used in this project

Hardware components

esp32 30pin
×1
SH1106 1,3 inch OLED
×1
Resistor 10k ohm
Resistor 10k ohm
×1
Pushbutton switch 12mm
SparkFun Pushbutton switch 12mm
×1
Jumper wires (generic)
Jumper wires (generic)
×1
Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
×1
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
or anything with webserver apache and php (Not absolutely necessary )
×1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

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Easily Timecomparison for ESP32 Breadboard

Easily Timecomparison for ESP32 PHP

<?php
echo "Executing: insert_time.php";
$con= mysqli_connect("localhost", "PHP_User",
"PHP_Password", "Database_db"); // (Host, User, Password, Databasename, "port")
if ($con->connect_errno) {
die("Connection Error: " . $con->connect_error);
}
$p = $_GET["p"];
$e = $_GET["e"];
$t = $_GET["t"];
$z = $_GET["z"];

echo "<br>p = ".$p." e =".$e. " t =".$t. " z =".$z. " v =".$v;
$sql ="INSERT INTO Timemessure (ptbtime, esptime, timedif, zpm) VALUES ('$p', '$e', '$t', '$z')";
mysqli_query($con, $sql);
mysqli_close($con);
echo "<br>done";
?>

Chart timemessure

Code

Easily Timecomparison for ESP32

Arduino
with display and push-button
/* 
 *  Easily check the accuracy of the RTC from the ESP32 by yeTTiz (twitter.com/yeTTizTV)
 *  
 *  In this projekt you can check the RTC of the ESP32 make a Time comparison with Timeserver
 *  The time is saved on a web server with PHP and mysql and can be shown on the sh1106 display using a button.
 *  A timer server is queried via WiFi and compared with the RTC time of the ESP.
 *  Every 24 hours the RTC time of the ESP is set to the ntp time.
 *  The measurement is carried out every x minutes, 
 *  then the new deep sleep time is calculated and the ESP is switched to deep sleep mode. 
 *  
 *  
 *  
 *  Contains code from Michael Margolis Udp NTP Client created 4 Sep 2010 
 *
 * This code is in the public domain.
*/

#include <WiFi.h>
#include <Arduino.h>
#include <Wire.h>
//#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <U8g2lib.h>
#include <HTTPClient.h>
#include <time.h>

U8G2_SH1106_128X64_NONAME_F_HW_I2C u8g2(U8G2_R0, /* reset=*/ U8X8_PIN_NONE);

// Only GPIO15
// 00000000000000001000000000000000
#define BUTTON_PIN_BITMASK2 0x8000                                  // GPIO 15 -- GPIO for Wakeup-Button --
static const int GPIOPin15 = 15;                                    // to set GPIO to HIGH

const char* ssid = "ESPWLAN";                                       // Your WLAN Name
const char* password = "ESP32Passwort123";                          // Your WLAN Password
const char timeServer[] = "192.168.22.1";                           // Your Router or your timeserver
const char* URL = "http://192.168.22.55/insert_time.php?";          // Your Webside to store Data
const uint16_t messcycle = 5;                                       // Measuring cycle in minutes  (minimum 2 min und maximum 59min)
int TIME_TO_SLEEP = messcycle * 60;                                 // messcycle in seconds
const int $DST = 1;                                                       // 0 for Wintertime, 1 for Summertime

unsigned int localPort = 8888;                                      // local port to listen for UDP packets
const int NTP_PACKET_SIZE = 48;                                     // NTP time stamp is in the first 48 bytes of the message
byte packetBuffer[NTP_PACKET_SIZE];                                 //buffer to hold incoming and outgoing packets
unsigned int WiFiTryCounter = 0;

String $datum = "";
String $zeit = "";
String $esptime = "";
String $ntptime = "";
String $ntphour = "";
String $ntpmin = "";
String $ntpsec = "";
String $timedif = "";
String $strdifpm = "";
float $difpm = 0.0;

time_t $ntpunixtime = time(0);
time_t $espunixtime = time(0);

int year;
byte month, day, hour, minute, second;


RTC_DATA_ATTR int beginntime = 99;                                  // to store the minute of the first measurement, it is retained after DeepSleep
RTC_DATA_ATTR int bootcount = 0;

WiFiUDP Udp;                                                        // A UDP instance to let us send and receive packets over UDP

WiFiServer server(80);                                          
IPAddress apIP(192, 168, 22, 44);                                   // IP-Adresse of ESP32

void print_wakeup_reason();

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Serial.println("Waking up...");  
    
  pinMode(GPIOPin15, INPUT_PULLUP);                                 

  u8g2.begin();                                                     // init Display

  Serial.println("conectWIFI()");                                   
  conectWIFI();                                                     // connectt Wlan 

  if (bootcount == 0) {
    Serial.println("Get time from timeserver");
    getPTB();                                                       // Get time from timeserver and store in locale RTC in ESP32
  }
  setenv("TZ", "CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3", 1);                    // Set local time with daylight saving time 

  //++bootcount of timerboot;
  if (bootcount > (1440 / messcycle)){                              // After ~24 hours, the time should be synchronized by the time server 
    bootcount = 0;                                                  // at the next start 
  }

  getNTP();                                                         // Get time from timeserver to calculate
  
  Serial.println("Readtime()");
  readtime();                                                       // Get time from ESP and calculate time difference

  if (($timedif.toInt()) > 0){
    $difpm = float($timedif.toFloat()) / (bootcount + 1);           // Calculate the average time difference per measurement cycle 
    $strdifpm = String($difpm, 3);
  }  
  if (beginntime == 99){
    doAction();                                                     // Send data to webserver
    doAction2();
    beginntime = minute;                                            // Store minutes of the first messurment
    Serial.print("Minute = ");
    Serial.println(minute);
  }

  Serial.println("Print Wakeup Reason");   
  print_wakeup_reason();                                            // Evaluate the reason for waking up 

  Serial.println("calcnext");    
  calcnext();                                                       // calculate the next DeepSleepTime

  Serial.println("Ausgabe Serial ..");
  showonserial();                                                  // Show Data on Serial-Monitor

  esp_sleep_enable_ext1_wakeup(BUTTON_PIN_BITMASK2, ESP_EXT1_WAKEUP_ALL_LOW);  // set wakeup GPIO  
  Serial.println("startDeepSleep()");  
  startDeepSleep();
}

void loop(void) {
}


//================= Funktion connect Wlan =============================
void conectWIFI(){
  delay(500);                                                       // Connect to WiFi network
  Serial.println();
  Serial.printf("Connecting to ", ssid);
    
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  while ((WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) && (WiFiTryCounter < 10)) { //10 try to connect
    delay(500);
    WiFiTryCounter++;
    Serial.print("Connecting to WiFi..");
  }
  if ((WiFi.status() == WL_CONNECTED)) {  
    Serial.println("");
    Serial.println("WiFi connected");                                 // Print the IP address
    Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
  }else
  {
    Serial.println("");
    Serial.println("WiFi not connected, restart in 10 Sekunden");
    delay(10000);
    ESP.restart();                                                    // ESP restart
  }
}

//================= Funktion get time from timeserver and store in ESP ====================
void getPTB(){
  configTime(0, 0, "192.168.22.1", "ptbtime1.ptb.de", "ptbtime2.ptb.de"); // get Time of locale Router or ptb.de and store in RTC of ESP

  Serial.println("Waiting for time ");
  while (!time(nullptr)) {
    Serial.print(".");
    delay(100);
  }
  delay(100);                                                       // wait for PTB time
}

//================= Funktion get time from timeserver to calculate ====================
void getNTP(){
  sendNTPpacket(timeServer);                                        // send an NTP packet to a time server

  // wait to see if a reply is available
  delay(1000);
  if (Udp.parsePacket()) {                                          // We've received a packet, read the data from it
    Udp.read(packetBuffer, NTP_PACKET_SIZE);                        // read the packet into the buffer

    // the timestamp starts at byte 40 of the received packet and is four bytes,
    // or two words, long. First, extract the two words:

    unsigned long highWord = word(packetBuffer[40], packetBuffer[41]);
    unsigned long lowWord = word(packetBuffer[42], packetBuffer[43]);
    
    // combine the four bytes (two words) into a long integer
    // this is NTP time (seconds since Jan 1 1900):
    
    unsigned long secsSince1900 = highWord << 16 | lowWord;
    Serial.print("Seconds since Jan 1 1900 = ");
    Serial.println(secsSince1900);

    // now convert NTP time into everyday time:
    Serial.print("Unix time = ");
    const unsigned long seventyYears = 2208988800UL;                // Unix time starts on Jan 1 1970. In seconds, that's 2208988800:
    unsigned long epoch = secsSince1900 - seventyYears;             // subtract seventy years:
    $ntpunixtime = epoch;
    Serial.println(epoch);                                          // print Unix time:

    // print the hour, minute and second:
    Serial.print("The UTC time is ");                               // UTC is the time at Greenwich Meridian (GMT)
    $ntphour = ((epoch %86400L) / 3600) + $DST;                      // the "+1" is for Daylight Saving Time
    Serial.print($ntphour);                                         // print the hour (86400 equals secs per day)
    Serial.print(':');
    if (((epoch % 3600) / 60) < 10) {                               // In the first 10 minutes of each hour, we'll want a leading '0'
      $ntpmin = "0";                                                // Serial.print('0');
    }
    $ntpmin = (String($ntpmin) +((epoch % 3600) / 60));             // print the minute (3600 equals secs per minute)
    Serial.print($ntpmin);
    Serial.print(':');
    if ((epoch % 60) < 10) {                                        // In the first 10 seconds of each minute, we'll want a leading '0'
      $ntpsec = "0";                                                // Serial.print('0');
    }
    $ntpsec = (String($ntpsec) + (epoch % 60));                     //Serial.println(epoch % 60); // print the second
    Serial.println($ntpsec);
    $ntptime = (String($ntphour) + ":" + $ntpmin + ":" + $ntpsec);
  }  
}

// === Funktion send an NTP request to the time server at the given address
void sendNTPpacket(const char * address) {
  // set all bytes in the buffer to 0
  memset(packetBuffer, 0, NTP_PACKET_SIZE);
  // Initialize values needed to form NTP request
  // (see URL above for details on the packets)
  packetBuffer[0] = 0b11100011;   // LI, Version, Mode
  packetBuffer[1] = 0;     // Stratum, or type of clock
  packetBuffer[2] = 6;     // Polling Interval
  packetBuffer[3] = 0xEC;  // Peer Clock Precision
  // 8 bytes of zero for Root Delay & Root Dispersion
  packetBuffer[12]  = 49;
  packetBuffer[13]  = 0x4E;
  packetBuffer[14]  = 49;
  packetBuffer[15]  = 52;

  // all NTP fields have been given values, now
  // you can send a packet requesting a timestamp:
  Udp.beginPacket(address, 123); // NTP requests are to port 123
  Udp.write(packetBuffer, NTP_PACKET_SIZE);
  Udp.endPacket();
}

//================= Funktion read ESP time ==============================
void readtime() {
  time_t now = time(nullptr);
  struct tm*timeinfo;
  time(&now);
  //gettimedif(time(&now));
  $timedif = String(time(&now)- $ntpunixtime);
  Serial.print("Timedifferenz = ");
  Serial.println($timedif);
  
  Serial.print ("time = ");
  Serial.println(time(&now));
  
  timeinfo = localtime(&now);

  year = 1900 + timeinfo->tm_year;
  month = 1 + timeinfo->tm_mon;
  day = timeinfo->tm_mday;
  hour = timeinfo->tm_hour;
  minute = timeinfo->tm_min;
  second = timeinfo->tm_sec;
  // Serial.printf("%02u-%02u-%4u\n", day, month, year);
  Serial.printf("%02u:%02u:%02u \n", hour, minute, second);
  $esptime = String(hour) + ":" + minute + ":" + second;

  if (year < 2000) {                                                // wrong year and restart
    ESP.restart();
  }
}


//=========== Funktion Evaluate the reason for waking up ===========================
void print_wakeup_reason(){
  esp_sleep_wakeup_cause_t wakeup_reason;
  wakeup_reason = esp_sleep_get_wakeup_cause();
  switch(wakeup_reason)
  {
    case ESP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_EXT0  : Serial.println("Wakeup caused by external signal using RTC_IO"); 
              //wakeup_reason_ext0();
              break;
    case ESP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_EXT1  : Serial.println("Wakeup caused by external signal using RTC_CNTL");
              wakeup_reason_ext1();                                 // Auswerten welcher GPIO Wake_up ausgelöst hat
              break;                                  
    case ESP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_TIMER  : Serial.println("Wakeup caused by timer"); 
              wakeup_reason_timer();
              break;
    case ESP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_TOUCHPAD  : Serial.println("Wakeup caused by touchpad");break;    
    case ESP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_ULP  : Serial.println("Wakeup caused by ULP program");
    default : Serial.println("Wakeup was not caused by deep sleep");break;
  }
}

//=========== Funktion Output which GPIO was triggered  =========================
void wakeup_reason_ext1(){
            Serial.printf("================== GPIO  15 ====================\n");
            doAction2();    
}

//=========== Funktion Output triggered by timer  ================================
void wakeup_reason_timer(){
            Serial.printf("================== TIMER  ======================\n");
            doAction();
}


//=========== Funktion Calculate nexte deepsleeptime  ==================================
void calcnext() {
  uint16_t actmin = 0;
  uint16_t actsec = 0;
  if (minute == beginntime){
    Serial.printf("Minutes == beginntime, TIME_TO_SLEEP will set to mescycle in seconds \n");
    TIME_TO_SLEEP = messcycle * 60;                                 // conversion in seconds 
    Serial.printf("Messcycle %u Sleeptime %u \n", messcycle, TIME_TO_SLEEP);
  } else
  {
    if (minute > beginntime) {
      actmin = (minute - beginntime);
      Serial.printf("Minutes > beginntime, past time actmin = %u \n");
    } else
    {
      actmin = (minute + 60 - beginntime);
      Serial.printf("Minutes < beginntime, past time actmin = %u \n");
    }
    actmin = (actmin % messcycle);
    Serial.printf ("actmin modulo messcycle = %u \n", actmin );
    actmin = (messcycle - actmin);
    Serial.printf ("Mintutes to the next messurement = %u \n", actmin);
    if (actmin !=0){
      if (second != 0) {
        Serial.printf("current second = %u , therefore 1 minute is deducted \n", second);
        actmin = actmin -1;
      }
    }
    actsec = actmin * 60;                                           // convert minutes in seconds
    
    actsec = actsec + 60 - second;                                  // to get seconds to the next minute

    if (actsec > 30) {
      Serial.printf("more then 30 seconds \n");                     // set Deep_Sleeptime to new Time
      TIME_TO_SLEEP = actsec;
    } else
    {
      doAction();                                                   // Save values because less than 30 seconds to the next start  
      Serial.printf("les then 30 seconds \n");                      // set Deep_Sleeptime to messcycle in seconds
      //TIME_TO_SLEEP = messcycle * 60;
      Serial.printf("akt.Min:Sek %u : %u Messcycle %u Sleeptime %u \n", actmin, actsec, beginntime, TIME_TO_SLEEP);
    }
  }
}

//=========== Funktion deepspleep =====================
void startDeepSleep(){
  delay(500);
  u8g2.clearBuffer();
  u8g2.sendBuffer();
  TIME_TO_SLEEP = TIME_TO_SLEEP + TIME_TO_SLEEP * 5 / 100;
  Serial.printf("go to sleep for %u s runtime was %lu ms\n", TIME_TO_SLEEP, millis());  
  Serial.flush();
  WiFi.disconnect(true);  
  delay(1);
  WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF);
  delay(1);  
                                                                    //Serial.println("Going to sleep...");
  esp_sleep_enable_timer_wakeup(TIME_TO_SLEEP * 1000000); 
  esp_deep_sleep_start();
}

//=========== Funktion show on serial ===========
void showonserial() {  
  Serial.println("Display on Serial");

  Serial.print("PTB-Time: ");                                     
  Serial.println($ntptime);
    
  Serial.print("ESP-Time: ");
  Serial.println($esptime);
}

//=========== Funktion init Display  ==============
void u8g2_prepare(void) {
  u8g2.setFont(u8g2_font_6x10_tf);
  u8g2.setFontRefHeightExtendedText();
  u8g2.setDrawColor(1);
  u8g2.setFontPosTop();
  u8g2.setFontDirection(0);
}

//=========== Funktion Ausgabe auf Display ==========
void showondisplay() {
  Serial.println("Display on external");
  u8g2.clearBuffer();
  u8g2_prepare();
  
  u8g2.drawStr(0, 0, "NTP-Time:  ");
  u8g2.drawStr(70, 0, $ntptime.c_str());
  
  u8g2.drawStr(0, 12, "ESP-Time.: ");
  u8g2.drawStr(70, 12, $esptime.c_str()); 
  
  u8g2.drawStr(0, 24, "Differenz: ");
  u8g2.drawStr(70, 24, $timedif.c_str());
  u8g2.drawStr(100,24, " Sec.");

  u8g2.drawStr(0, 36, "Date: ");                                     // display Date
  $datum = (String(day) + "." + month + "." + year);
  u8g2.drawStr(70, 36, $datum.c_str());

  u8g2.drawStr(0, 48, "o dif/mc: ");                                 // Average time difference per measurement cycle  
  u8g2.drawStr(70, 48, $strdifpm.c_str());

  u8g2.sendBuffer();  
  delay(8500);
}


//=========== Funktion send data to webserver =============
void doAction(){
  Serial.println("Doing action...");
  ++bootcount;

  if ((WiFi.status() == WL_CONNECTED)) {                              //Check the current connection status
     HTTPClient http;
   String $httpstr = (String(URL) + "p=" + $ntptime.c_str() + "&e=" + $esptime.c_str() + "&t=" + $timedif.c_str()+ "&z=" + $strdifpm.c_str());
    Serial.println($httpstr);
    http.begin($httpstr);                                             //Specify the URL
    int httpCode = http.GET();                                        //Make the request
 
    if (httpCode > 0) {                                               //Check for the returning code
        String payload = http.getString();
        Serial.println(httpCode);
        Serial.println(payload);
      }
    else {
      Serial.println("Error on HTTP request");
    }
    http.end();                                                       //Free the resources
  }
  Serial.println("finish send to Webserver");
}

//================== show only on display ==================
void doAction2(){
    Serial.println("Action 2: show on Display");

    showondisplay();
}

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