B4R Question help me about zs-042 rtc clock module

[vali khandangoll]

Hi all of you.
I have a zs-042 clock module like below.
I could find a library with name ds3231.h and i convert that to xml .
but I can not use that.
please help me with a very simple example.
zs-042 picture and ds3231.xml file attached to this post on below.

 

[Johan Schoeman]

You will need to create a wrapper for it - not just the xml. There is a B4R code snippet that you can use to set and read the time from a DS3231 RTC. It uses the wire library. Just search the B4R forum.

DS3231 Clock - Another Snippet

This is a simple read and write with only 4 subroutines and no library If of interest the ZS-042 module contains a DS3231 and on board I2C EEprom so you can get time and storage on one unit. See External EEPROM in the questions section for the latter ( though I must admit I haven't tried it on...

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[Johan Schoeman]

Just for interest sake - see if this project will read from your ZS-042 RTC (it does not require any library other than the B4R core library - the control of the SDA and SCL pins are all hard coded in the B4R project and you can therefore use any two digital configured pins as long as what you assign them correctly in the B4R code)

Reading Date, Time, and Temperature from a DS3231 RTC module (I2C) using any 2 digital configured pins from an Arduino

Cracked it - can connect the DS3231 to any 2 digital pins of my Nano and read the date, time, and temperature by making use of the B4A core library only. All control of the SDA (data) and SCL (clock) lines are hard coded. So, don't have to connect it to the traditional I2C pins and don't have to...

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You need to connect the SDA pin of the ZS-042 to pin 10 of your Uno
You need to connect the SCL pin of the ZS-042 to pin 11 of your Uno

Check the code - you can connect it to any 2 digital configured pins for eg:

    Dim pdatNo As Byte = pdat.A4                  'pin A4 on the Nano is the default pin for the I2C data line
    Dim pclkNo As Byte = pclk.A5                  'pin A5 on the Nano is the default pin for the I2C clock line

It should hopefully log something like this in the B4R log:

Note that although the default address is suppose to be 0x68 it is based on a 7 bit address. For a "write to" and a "read from" the DS3231 chip the 8 bit addresses actually become:
0xD0 = write
0XD1 = read

The 0x68 "7 bit" address shifts 1 bit to the left and for a write the LSB becomes 0 (i.e the 8 bit address changes to 0xD0) and for a read the LSB becomes a 1 (i.e the 8 bit address becomes 0xD1).

 

[vali khandangoll]

Hooray
finaly worked.
thanks unlimitly Johan.