We had a pretty bad storm in my area recently, and power has been...an issue...I sometimes forget that Pi's don't have RTCs. Thanks for
reminding me.

What distro are you using on your pi? I think raspbian should have an option to set the date on bootup via ntp.

Also I believe you can get RTC "hats" if it bothers you, I have this enclosure I bought from element 13 (or is it 14) that has an rtc and a uh mSATA port I think, it's really neat but it's for a Pi 3 so don't know if those are available anymore.

Anyway, sorry not movie related, don't think i can reply to another area here? (at least i don't know how :)

Andrew

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What distro are you using on your pi? I think raspbian should have an option to set the date on bootup via ntp.

I'm running DietPi, which is a fork of Raspbian Lite with some extra performance tweaks. It also does a time check at bootup. As I mentioned, the recent storm was affecting my power, and the Pi boots up faster than my network does. So, it wasn't able to do the time check. All I had to do was perform a restart, and (I think) it was fixed.

Also I believe you can get RTC "hats" if it bothers you, I have this enclosure I bought from element 13 (or is it 14) that has an rtc and a
uh mSATA port I think, it's really neat but it's for a Pi 3 so don't
know if those are available anymore.

Doesn't bother me at all! (o_-) If you hadn't mentioned that my time was off, I probably would never have even noticed. How does the mSATA connect to the Pi? Via GPIO or USB? Because the Pi3 is limited to USB 2.0, and that wouldn't be a very good experience, I think.

Anyway, sorry not movie related, don't think i can reply to another area here? (at least i don't know how :)

Neither do I, actually. I mean, you could have just started the message in a different area...or there's the ability to forward to a different area, at
least in Mystic...

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performance tweaks. It also does a time check at bootup. As I mentioned, the recent storm was affecting my power, and the Pi boots up faster than my network does.

Ah fair enough. I have a similar problem with my wireless access point starting up faster than my OPNsense router, so the wireless access point doesn't get a dhcp address and needs to be restarted after the other is started. Power outages are so much fun eh :P

Doesn't bother me at all! (o_-) If you hadn't mentioned that my time was off, I probably would never have even noticed. How does the mSATA
connect to the Pi? Via GPIO or USB? Because the Pi3 is limited to USB
2.0, and that wouldn't be a very good experience, I think.

The board is connected via GPIO and USB, but I believe it uses the USB for the mSATA, it's faster than the SD card, but obviously not as fast as it would be on USB 3. When I was using it (I'm not currently) I think I had home mounted on the mSATA and the system on the sd card, the bbs lived in home, it worked fine, plus if the sd card died, i still had my bbs :)

Neither do I, actually. I mean, you could have just started the message
in a different area...or there's the ability to forward to a different area, at least in Mystic...

Yeah true, but then I couldn't quote. Agency also uses mystic but I think the forward to a different area may be limited here to Avon (or I just don't know what I'm doing, I'm not familiar with mystic really)

Andrew

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Re: Re: Raspberry Pi's and RTC
By: McDoob to apam on Tue Jun 07 2022 01:44 pm

I'm running DietPi, which is a fork of Raspbian Lite with some extra performance tweaks. It also does a time check at bootup. As I mentioned, the
recent storm was affecting my power, and the Pi boots up faster than my network does. So, it wasn't able to do the time check. All I had to do was
perform a restart, and (I think) it was fixed.

Nah, you are still posting from the past...

(I'm not worried about it, just letting you know.)


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Nah, you are still posting from the past...

(I'm not worried about it, just letting you know.)

Yeah, I finally figured it out. Apparently, systemd-timesyncd was no longer installed for some reason. Not sure why, but it's installed again now. I'm guessing that the multiple power failures (another one last night) is wreaking havoc with the filesystem.

Looks like I'll have to do a backup and format soon, just to be safe. And I'm starting to consider the UPS 'hat' now...

Thanks.

McDoob
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