keeping time

[joeyschinella]

need some help with my time and date as it always default back to default when powered up.

running a beaglebone black with he123 cape.

thanks

 

[merryoncherry]

Does it have network? Did you put a fresh battery in it? It needs the battery to keep time, or the network to fetch it.

 

[joeyschinella]

thanks for reply

yes on network , but my battery socket on cape is faulty with a broken clip that holds the battery. so hoping to use network

 

[Skymaster]

The network "should" be automatic - irrespective of the battery. Does the FPP instance see the internet?
Under Tools -> Troubleshooting commands, there is a section on Time/NTP - can you screenshot that one and shoot it here? It'll show whetehr it's working.
It usually takes a minute or two after boot for the time to 'correct' itself.

 

[joeyschinella]

i’ll screenshot when i get home tonight

thanks

 

[joeyschinella]

@Skymaster , see below

thanks

 

[Skymaster]

Yep so you're clock is synchronized and working fine.
From your screenshot, we can see we are synchronized to Telstra's time servers - the * highlighted in blue shows us this.
Based on your post, the screenshot looks like it was taken 2 minutes earlier - the clock is showing 2:07pm Sydney time (which is 3:07am UTC - green)

When the configuration is blank (Override default NTP server) it will use the default Falcon Player NTP systems.
The clock takes about a minute or two after boot to synchronize. So - if you're powering on your controller really soon before your show is due to start, you might want to do it a couple of minutes earlier.