{"id":17834,"date":"2017-11-21T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2017-11-21T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:49:59","slug":"witty-pi-2-power-management-board-for-the-raspberry-pi-an-average-man-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17834","title":{"rendered":"Witty Pi 2 &#8211; power management board for the Raspberry Pi &#8211; an Average Man review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17835\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=777%2C437&amp;ssl=1 777w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Raspberry-Pi-On-Off-Switch-with-Power-Scheduling-777x437.png?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Saville (Average Man) has been busy for the past 13 months, what with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2017\/11\/houses-and-sprogs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his new house and new baby<\/a>. Well, he&#8217;s back with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2017\/11\/pi-on-off-switch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/product\/wittypi2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UUGear Witty Pi 2<\/a>. This power management board has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an on-off switch for the Raspberry Pi<\/li>\n<li>power scheduling for turning the Pi on and off at specific times<\/li>\n<li>a real-time clock for keeping the scheduler, and the Pi, to time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2017\/11\/pi-on-off-switch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the (sparkling) review here<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/product\/wittypi2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy the Witty Pi 2 directly from UUGear<\/a>\u00a0(around \u00a317 or $23).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome back, Mr Average!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, by-the-by, you can read my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12515\">review of the original Witty Pi here<\/a>. It seems, from Richard&#8217;s review, that the Witty Pi 2 has addressed the\u00a0<em>only\u00a0<\/em>concern I had &#8211; that of the need for a proper GUI to set-up the scheduler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Saville (Average Man) has been busy for the past 13 months, what with his new house and new baby. Well, he&#8217;s back with a review of the UUGear Witty Pi 2. This power management board has: an on-off switch&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17834\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Witty Pi 2 - power management board for the Raspberry Pi - an Average Man review - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17834\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Witty Pi 2 - power management board for the Raspberry Pi - an Average Man review - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Saville (Average Man) has been busy for the past 13 months, what with his new house and new baby. 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This \u00a310 board gives you a real-time clock so that your Pi always has the correct time, even when not connected to the 'Net and gives you the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeky Techiness&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeky Techiness","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raspi.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Witty-Pi_900.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raspi.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Witty-Pi_900.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raspi.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Witty-Pi_900.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/raspi.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Witty-Pi_900.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18725,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18725","url_meta":{"origin":17834,"position":3},"title":"New power management chip on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ &#8211; more information","author":"Michael Horne","date":"11 April 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"James Adams from Raspberry Pi Trading has written a fascinating article about the new power management chip on the 3B+, which is the MXL7704 from MaxLinear. There's lots of technical detail here, but it's quite accessible. You can read more here.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeky Techiness&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeky Techiness","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mxl7704.jpg?fit=768%2C677&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mxl7704.jpg?fit=768%2C677&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mxl7704.jpg?fit=768%2C677&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mxl7704.jpg?fit=768%2C677&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1963,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1963","url_meta":{"origin":17834,"position":4},"title":"Pecan Pi Relays expansion board from Nwazet for #RaspberryPi","author":"Michael Horne","date":"7 February 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting new expansion board from US supplier Nwazet. Here is what they say about the board: The Pecan Pi Relays kit is designed to be interfaced with the\u00a0Raspberry Pi's GPIO connector\u00a0and features six normally open relays, each capable of switching up to 16A @ 250VAC. The relays are rated for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPIO boards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPIO boards","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/002.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15702,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15702","url_meta":{"origin":17834,"position":5},"title":"ModMyPi PiOT relay board for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by Average Man and Raspberry Pi Spy","author":"Michael Horne","date":"16 October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A while back, Jacob over at ModMyPi sent me a new board - a relay board designed to be used for IoT projects. I haven't had a chance to use it myself yet, but I would like to feature it a bit here. 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