RTClib (Chronodot lib) update suggestions

[MrAlvin]

At my local hackerspace (Labitat.dk) I have invited people to help in the preparation of an Arduino Weekend Workshop, so for a few months a few of us have been doing Arduino stuff every Thursday.
Some weeks ago we looked at RTC chips, and someone brought the Chronodot to my attention. What a delightful revelation that was. And then I discovered the Adafruit RTClib on github, and the compile issues about Arduino 1.0 and <1.0, and I saw how different people had worked on adding functionality to the RTClib on github.

I actually do not know much about C or C++ programming, or GIT for that matter, but I love the Arduino Concept platform and open source, and I wanted easy access to all the functionality that has been revealed to me over the past few weeks about RTC chips, so I have merged all the information I have found into an RTClib on github, and thought I would share it with the rest of you.

So have a look at https://github.com/MrAlvin/RTClib


Comments, suggestions and improvement ideas are very welcome.


/MrAlvin

[macegr]

Library looks great, thanks!

Also, the Arduino Time Library works great with the ChronoDot, no modification necessary...just treat it as a DS1307.

http://arduino.cc/playground/Code/Time

Here's a simple project I did using the ChronoDot and the Time library: http://www.macetech.com/blog/node/115

[MrAlvin]

Library looks great, thanks!

Also, the Arduino Time Library works great with the ChronoDot, no modification necessary...just treat it as a DS1307.

http://arduino.cc/playground/Code/Time

Here's a simple project I did using the ChronoDot and the Time library: http://www.macetech.com/blog/node/115

"example sketches illustrating how similar sketch code can be used with: a Real Time Clock,Internet NTP time service, GPS time data, and Serial time messages from a computer"

AWESOME! Thanks, I'll be sure to look at integrating the different time keeping options.

[Dan Malec]

The library is looking nice

I've updated my pull request to adafruit/RTClib (https://github.com/adafruit/RTClib/pull/11) with a small bugfix and some functions to access the DS1307 SQW pin. If you are interested in the changes, would you rather handle the merge or should I try and open a pull request against your repo as well?

[MrAlvin]

Hi Dan Malec,

I am _always_ interested in bug fixes

Please make a pull request towards my fork.


[edit] hmm.... only just saw the "send me an email on reply" option, so I should now be able to follow this thread in a more timely manner.