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What is Witty Pi?
Witty Pi is small electronic circuit board that can add realtime clock and power management to your
Raspberry Pi. Witty Pi 3 is the third generation of Witty Pi. After installing Witty Pi 3 on your
Raspberry Pi, you get some amazing new features:
You can power your Raspberry Pi with higher voltage.
You can gracefully turn on/off Raspberry Pi with single tap on the switch.
After shutdown, Raspberry Pi and all its USB peripherals’ power are fully cut.
Raspberry Pi knows the correct time, even without accessing the Internet.
Raspberry Pi knows the temperature thanks to the sensor in RTC chip.
You can schedule the startup/shutdown of your Raspberry Pi.
You can even write a script to define complex ON/OFF sequence.
Shutdown Raspberry Pi when input voltage is lower than pre-set value.
Turn on Raspberry Pi when input voltage raise to pre-set value.
When the OS loses response, you can long hold the switch to force power cut.
Witty Pi 3 supports all Raspberry Pi models that has the 40-pin GPIO header, including A+, B+, 2B,
Zero, Zero W, 3B, 3B+, 3A+ and 4B.
Comparing to Witty Pi 2, Witty Pi 3 uses the same RTC chip (DS3231SN) and introduces a new
micro-controller (ATtiny841), which allows it to behave smarter and handle more complex