ESP8266 WiFi delays Timer

[Gorkde]

The establising of WiFi on the ESP takes some time and the timer is delayed and fires multiple times after that.

This causes my Timer I use for pushing data to a server to flood the server.

Is there any way to make it just fire once after beeing delayed?

See: esp8266/Arduino#2295

[SteveToulouse]

This could maybe made an option on each timer so that the way simpletimers work already isn't lost (I can see how current mode of operation could be desirable in many cases).

EDIT as discussed in the esp8266 issue, you could put a call to restartTimer in the timer callback function to achieve the desired operation. Maybe a note in this library's doc to explain what happens when calls to simpletimer::run are seperated by more than twice the requested interval?

[Gorkde]

I probably will write my own timer. But this should at least be mentioned I think.

The best way would be to add an option to the timer library to select behavior of the timers (execute once or all occurences).