Does anyone have any suggestions on a good RTC that can be used with

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Does anyone have any suggestions on a good RTC that can be used with WS2812 LEDs? I have been searching through the posts here and see that some people have used DS3231 but it is I2C and I am also reading that causes issues with WS2812 because of the interrupts. I am going to be using an ESP8266 board if that makes any difference.

Would an SPI RTC like the DS3234 be my best option?

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You don’t really need an RTC with an Esp8266 - you can simply use NTP. On the other hand I have used RTCs and WS2812s together many times, so you should be able to use them.

My clock with RTC and WS2812;

Updated code with ESP8266 using NTP:

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@Dushyant_Ahuja Thank you for saving me a few dollars. I’ll definitely look into using NTP based on your code.