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- Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:41 pm #31253 I have an old LED Clock that I built a few years back with an Arduino and a ds1307.. Setting the time is a pain.. I have to pull the clock module and set the time manually on another board and then put it back..

I was wondering how feasible would it be to use a esp-01 as a self hosted web page to set the clock by connecting it to the serial port on the arduino and have the arduino make the i2c call to set the clock..

I figured that I could also use one of the gpio pins to actually reboot the arduino to get the new time from the clock..

Any thought or ideas on this.. and if it would even be feasible??

Thanks

k.

- Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:56 pm #31270 Hi, better still you could use the ESP8266 to pull the time from the internet.
Something like this http://www.instructables.com/id/Internet-time-syncronized-clock-for-Arduino/

- Tue Oct 13, 2015 3:42 pm #31280 And a ESP8266-12 has probably enough outputs to drive the LEDs, and you can even get rid of the Arduino.