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PCF8563 - Real Time Clock and Calendar I2C Driver - ESP8266
« on: March 13, 2015, 08:54:17 am »

If you need for your ESP8266 projects a proper RTC, might worth to take in consideration also PCF8563. Good price and easy to implement a I2C driver for it.


First test:


Update Time and Date with Google page:


For more details:
http://www.esp8266-projects.com/2015/03/pcf8563-real-time-clock-i2c-driver.html
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Re: PCF8563 - Real Time Clock and Calendar I2C Driver - ESP8266
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2015, 12:44:31 am »
I agree, the PCF8563 is a nice RTC:
I used this $4 board
http://www.wvshare.com/product/PCF8563-RTC-Board.htm
with a cypress USB-Serial bridge that can do I2C to talk to the board from my PC:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/cheap-easy-i2c-dev-kit/msg623983/#msg623983

Edit: btw, even if they say they will remove the battery for shipping, they didn't, tsk tsk.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2015, 01:51:22 am by miguelvp »
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