i think I figured out part of this. When you use configTime, you set the esp32 internal time but NOT the time of the object rtcESP32.

UPDATE: I got WiFiManager to work, but am still having an issue. I am trying to grab the time off NTP server (see this tutorial I am using WiFiManag...

@zander You are 100% correct. For coding in Arduino framework, I think Arduino environment seems to be best. I first chose PlatformIO because of so...

Wow...you guys are good. Sorry for the silence since I posted. So here is what I found. You guys were right. Apparently the library registry in Pl...

@zander Ron: Nice one...i'll try it when I get home tonight ... but that is a lot different to what I was getting.

@zander Ron: I see this tutorial presented by a bunch of different people/p> Here you can see they run a subroutine print_wakeup_reason() fairly e...

@will It is a pretty long sketch and I thought I would just include the "pertinent" sections. Through trial and error, I found the piece of offending...

@zander Check this out! You ready for this? I went through a bunch of forums and found one where a guy had a garbled screen just like mine. He b...

@zander o.k. I rolled back to 2.5.6...no joy. im running out of ideas.

@zander o.k. I loaded the I2C scanner and you can see it finds 2 devices . The one at 0x3C is my oled, and 0x68 is my RTC. See the monitor on the r...

@zander I'll do that and let you know. I'm at a friend's watching the superbowl. Mark