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Sets the time of the Adafruit DS3231 realtime clock (RTC) via the Adafruit API time service
import ssl
import wifi
import socketpool
import adafruit_requests
import secrets
import adafruit_ds3231
import board
import time
# Sets the time of the DS3231 realtime clock (RTC) from Adafruit
# https://www.adafruit.com/product/3013
# https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects/ds3231/en/latest/index.html
# https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ds3231-precision-rtc-breakout/overview
# Get wifi details and more from a secrets.py file
# Format of file is:
# secrets = {
# "ssid": "YOUR_SSID_HERE",
# "password": "WIFI_PASSWORD_HERE",
# 'aio_username' : 'ADAFRUIT_IO_USERNAME_HERE',
# 'aio_key' : 'ADAFRUIT_IO_API_KEY_HERE',
# 'timezone' : "America/New_York", # http://worldtimeapi.org/timezones
# }
# You will need an adafruit.io API key:
# https://io.adafruit.com/
try:
from secrets import secrets
except ImportError:
print("WiFi secrets are kept in secrets.py, please add them there!")
raise
# Get our username, key and desired timezone
aio_username = secrets["aio_username"]
aio_key = secrets["aio_key"]
location = secrets.get("timezone", None)
TIME_URL = "https://io.adafruit.com/api/v2/%s/integrations/time/strftime?x-aio-key=%s" % (aio_username, aio_key)
TIME_URL += "&fmt=%25s"
i2c = board.I2C() # uses board.SCL and board.SDA
rtc = adafruit_ds3231.DS3231(i2c)
print("Connecting to %s"%secrets["ssid"])
wifi.radio.connect(secrets["ssid"], secrets["password"])
print("Connected to %s!"%secrets["ssid"])
pool = socketpool.SocketPool(wifi.radio)
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, ssl.create_default_context())
response = requests.get(TIME_URL)
print(response.text)
remote_time = time.localtime(int(response.text))
print(remote_time)
rtc.datetime = remote_time
current = rtc.datetime
print('The current time is: {}/{}/{} {:02}:{:02}:{:02}'.format(current.tm_mon, current.tm_mday, current.tm_year, current.tm_hour, current.tm_min, current.tm_sec))
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You will need a CircuitPython compatible board from Adafruit. The one I used was the Metro ESP32-S2: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4775

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