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I got some spare DS1302 chips that I'd like to connect to my Raspberry Pi to use as a RTC, but I'm not so sure how to. How would I go about it?

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    So, you have answered your own question right? If so, you should put this as an answer, not inside of a question. Right now it's unclear if you have any unanswered question.
    – Krzysztof Adamski
    Dec 16, 2013 at 10:21
  • hey there @KrzysztofAdamski, i can't because i just made this account. something about having to wait 8 hours
    – Ivan
    Dec 16, 2013 at 10:31
  • OK, just be sure to move it to the answer when you can. You can even self accept it. This will help others having the same issue. Also note that DS1302 is supported by Linux kernel driver and this is another option to use it. I may add another answer describing how to do this when I have some time or you may explore this yourself.
    – Krzysztof Adamski
    Dec 16, 2013 at 11:20
  • @KrzysztofAdamski, sure thing.
    – Ivan
    Dec 16, 2013 at 13:49
  • You can also use the DS1307. It's easy to interface because you can just use I2C
    – John La Rooy
    Dec 17, 2013 at 23:10

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Using the guide from hobbytronics as a reference, with this module i got from Cytron

1. Connect it to the RPi's GPIO

RST  (CE)  -> GPIO#17
I/O  (DAT) -> GPIO#18
SCLK (CLK) -> GPIO#21 
GND        -> GND 
VCC        -> 3v

2. compile source

http://pastebin.com/gF09XSFn

cc rtc-pi.c

this is for the rev 1 board, mine was the rev 2 so i had to update the definitions in the source:

http://pastebin.com/YJ22Sayh

#define SCLK_OUTPUT *(gpio+GPIO_SEL2) &= 0xFF1FFFFFL; *(gpio+GPIO_SEL2) |=0x00200000L
#define SCLK_HIGH *(gpio+GPIO_SET) = 0x08000000L
#define SCLK_LOW *(gpio+GPIO_CLR) = 0x08000000L

3. execute the compilation

output from the compilation would be a a.out file, rename it to rtc-pi and set the date with something like this

sudo ./rtc-pi 20131216175500

or to set it from the current time

sudo ./rtc-pi `date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`

this will set the time. now all you need to do is to invoke it during every startup to keep the date

sudo ./rtc-pi

Misc

to quote the guide from hobbytronics

I also found that a pullup resistor is needed between DAT and VCC (= 3.3V). A 10k..30k resistor seems to work fine.

Now i didn't do this at the moment because i don't have any resistors with me, not so sure about the impact of it.

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  • a resistor between DAT and VCC makes sure your I2C setup conforms to the standard -- DAT should be HIGH when there's no data transfer going on.
    – lenik
    Dec 16, 2013 at 23:46
  • I also had to change GPIO_ADD form 0x20200000L to 0x3F200000L as indicated here.
    – Falko
    May 13, 2016 at 12:59

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