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[Reply #15 on:]

I don't see anything obvious. How about putting a few serial.printlns inyour day, night, lightson, lightsoff, etc functions to see if the alarm is triggering them. At least you'll narrow it dow to a function problem or alarm problem.

He does actually have Serial.printlns in most of those already...

I don't see anything obvious either...

[Reply #16 on:]

Have i really managed to stump the knowledge of all the great Arduino Coders ?

Edit - Not sure if im on the right tracks here, but i thought as a test id put this in to see what the arduinos internal time actually is, and theres a mismatch, could this be the issue ?

http://gyazo.com/ee1a4d9dfa5e6e058e29bc5735d21984.png?1359503649

[Reply #17 on:]

From the example, setTime(8,29,0,1,1,11); is included in the setup, did you put this in to test it? Other than that, it should be working.

[Reply #18 on:]

From the example, setTime(8,29,0,1,1,11); is included in the setup, did you put this in to test it? Other than that, it should be working.

Tried this, changed the alarm time to 8:30 as per the example and it worked ! So why isnt it reading from the RTC time thats my question ?

[Reply #19 on:]

did you try the example TimeRTC? Look in the Setup(), it might be just what your missing.

Code:

/*
 * TimeRTC.pde
 * example code illustrating Time library with Real Time Clock.
 *
 */

#include <Time.h> 
#include <Wire.h> 
#include <DS1307RTC.h>  // a basic DS1307 library that returns time as a time_t

void setup()  {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  setSyncProvider(RTC.get);   // ***the function to get the time from the RTC***
  if(timeStatus()!= timeSet)
     Serial.println("Unable to sync with the RTC");
  else
     Serial.println("RTC has set the system time");     
}

void loop()
{
   digitalClockDisplay(); 
   delay(1000);
}

void digitalClockDisplay(){
  // digital clock display of the time
  Serial.print(hour());
  printDigits(minute());
  printDigits(second());
  Serial.print(" ");
  Serial.print(day());
  Serial.print(" ");
  Serial.print(month());
  Serial.print(" ");
  Serial.print(year());
  Serial.println();
}

void printDigits(int digits){
  // utility function for digital clock display: prints preceding colon and leading 0
  Serial.print(":");
  if(digits < 10)
    Serial.print('0');
  Serial.print(digits);
}