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DS3231 RTC

ZS-042 schematic

There are at least two RTC modules containing the DS3231 available from China. Both can operate with the Raspberry Pi and one is designed specicially for it.

One useful feature of the DS3231 other than keeping the time is it's built-in temperature readout, however, initial tests suggest that this is inaccurate.

DS3231 for Pi

This device is as simple as it gets. There are two pull-up resistors for the I2C lines (4K3), a battery connected to the VBAT pin and a capacitor on the power rails.

This device plugs directly into the GPIO header.

DS3231 ZS-042

This module contains the RTC and an HK24C32 EEPROM. It tends to ship with a CR2032 battery and, as the per advice of many web sites, it's important to desolder the charge feature of the module (see schematic).

By default the EEPROM content is

./mcp24 1 0x57 -d
EEPROM FOUND AT 0x0057
DUMP
[0000] 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F 50 |ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP|
[0010] 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A FF FF FF FF FF FF |QRSTUVWXYZ......|
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