Date Time issues rPi4

eMCZe · January 27, 2024, 9:36pm

I try to install Volumio on my friend Pi via Team Viever but still we have error during instalation TouchDisplay, here are logs

http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/SPtgK2e.html

It is on Pi4 . It works before on previous ver. Now is problem to install it on 3.601 clean installation.

Can you help ??

Wheaten · January 27, 2024, 9:42pm

Please validate the date on your system, guess that is causing the errors:

`Jan 19 18:53:43 `

eMCZe · January 27, 2024, 9:48pm

ups… I will check it. Thank you.

eMCZe · January 28, 2024, 11:20am

Yes, after use

ddate -s “28 JAN 2024 11:34:00” everything started.

I see that my friend hasn’t clock signal, it is wired connection but without time server signal.

Everytime when he turn off Pi, clock on Pi is stoped.

Wheaten · January 28, 2024, 12:15pm

yeah, rPi4 doesn’t come with a RTC.
I have 2 rPi4 suffering the same problem and discussed it internally.
The date does come back with 20 minutes.
Whenever I am in a hurry I use the date command.

eMCZe · January 28, 2024, 12:44pm

I said the same to the owner. “Always after power on Pi you should adjust date and clock”

Wheaten · January 28, 2024, 1:31pm

No that’s the thing, you shouldn’t have to do that.
I have the same issues with 2 out of 4 rPi4.

All 4 are connected to the same switch.
Same rPi4 HW versions
2 have the correct timedate form start and 2 are annoying me…

eMCZe · January 28, 2024, 6:46pm

But you don’t know why…

UPS… it means that you don’t know everything

Wheaten · January 28, 2024, 6:51pm

No we don’t know why.
Even debugged it with the help of Volumio’s developers. But for some strange reason, some rPi’s take a holiday, walk the dog, take a beer or whatever, before updating the clock.

eMCZe · January 28, 2024, 6:54pm

I have another situation, this R Pi4 works in my home. I configured Volumio for him. I have it one week with Now Playing clock and weather on screen saver. Time was correct, data too. He wait 3 days for shipping and after power on Pi was 3 days late.

It was his second Pi4, first he burnt with power supply. First works with correct date and time.

Darmur · January 28, 2024, 11:15pm

you could add the very same command to /etc/rc.local, it will be executed at the startup

eMCZe · January 28, 2024, 11:26pm

Which command ?? Because command what I use it only gives me the date and time I entered.

Wheaten · January 28, 2024, 11:27pm

Something like this:

sudo date -s "$(wget -qSO- --max-redirect=0 google.com 2>&1 | grep Date: | cut -d' ' -f5-8)Z"

or:

sudo date +"%d %b %Y %T %Z" -s "$(curl -s --head http://google.com | grep '^Date:' | cut -d' ' -f 3-)"

You only need to find a server in your timezone.

You can start it as service, as you want the network online before doing this:

cat <<EOF >> /home/volumio/setdatetime.sh
#!/bin/bash
date +"%d %b %Y %T %Z" -s "$(curl -s --head http://google.com | grep '^Date:' | cut -d' ' -f 3-)"
EOF

chmod 755 /home/volumio/setdatetime.sh

sudo cat <<EOF >>/lib/systemd/system/setdatetime.service
[Unit]
Description=Date Time service
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/volumio/setdatetime.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/setdatetime.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable setdatetime.service && sudo systemctl start setdatetime.service

Ran this test on the 2 problem pi’s and it did the trick.

start:

reboot:

rak39 · January 31, 2024, 12:24am

I have a similar problem. On my rPi4, the time syncs after about 60 minutes.
I applied these settings and they work right after adding the commands, but after a reboot it is back to the time when rPi was last turned off.
What am I doing wrong?

Wheaten · January 31, 2024, 7:09am

if you’ve added the service it should set the date again during a reboot.
What are the results of:
sudo systemctl status setdatetime.service

rak39 · January 31, 2024, 8:12am

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Volumio Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
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Welcome to Volumio for Raspberry Pi (6.1.70-v7l+ armv7l)
Last login: Wed Jan 31 01:18:28 2024 from 192.168.0.115
volumio@volumio:~$ date
Wed Jan 31 01:26:38 CET 2024
volumio@volumio:~$ sudo systemctl status
● volumio
    State: degraded
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 1 units
    Since: Thu 1970-01-01 01:00:09 CET; 54 years 0 months ago
   CGroup: /
           ├─user.slice
           │ └─user-1000.slice
           │   ├─user@1000.service
           │   │ └─init.scope
           │   │   ├─1829 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
           │   │   └─1830 (sd-pam)
           │   └─session-7.scope
           │     ├─1825 sshd: volumio [priv]
           │     ├─1848 sshd: volumio@pts/0
           │     ├─1849 -bash
           │     ├─1865 sudo systemctl status
           │     ├─1866 systemctl status
           │     └─1867 less
           ├─init.scope
           │ └─1 /sbin/init
           └─system.slice
             ├─alsa-state.service
lines 1-23...skipping...
● volumio
    State: degraded
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 1 units
    Since: Thu 1970-01-01 01:00:09 CET; 54 years 0 months ago
   CGroup: /
           ├─user.slice
           │ └─user-1000.slice
           │   ├─user@1000.service
           │   │ └─init.scope
           │   │   ├─1829 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
           │   │   └─1830 (sd-pam)
           │   └─session-7.scope
           │     ├─1825 sshd: volumio [priv]
           │     ├─1848 sshd: volumio@pts/0
           │     ├─1849 -bash
           │     ├─1865 sudo systemctl status
           │     ├─1866 systemctl status
           │     └─1867 less
           ├─init.scope
           │ └─1 /sbin/init
           └─system.slice
             ├─alsa-state.service
             │ └─551 /usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -s -n 19 -c rdaemon
             ├─ifplugd.service
             │ └─701 /usr/sbin/ifplugd -i eth0 -q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I
             ├─mpd.service
             │ └─1378 /usr/bin/mpd --systemd
             ├─nmbd.service
             │ ├─654 /usr/sbin/nmbd --foreground --no-process-group
             │ └─716 /usr/sbin/nmbd --foreground --no-process-group
             ├─volumio.service
             │ ├─ 971 /usr/bin/node /volumio/index.js
             │ ├─1021 /usr/bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
             │ ├─1028 /usr/bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
             │ ├─1029 /usr/bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
             │ ├─1030 /usr/bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
             │ └─1285 /usr/bin/node /myvolumio/plugins/music_service/streaming_services/streamingProxy.js
             ├─dbus.service
             │ └─560 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
             ├─winbind.service
             │ ├─890 /usr/sbin/winbindd --foreground --no-process-group
             │ ├─917 winbindd: domain child [VOLUMIO]
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rak39 · January 31, 2024, 8:16am

Welcome to Volumio for Raspberry Pi (6.1.70-v7l+ armv7l)
Last login: Wed Jan 31 01:33:55 2024 from 192.168.0.115
volumio@volumio:~$ setdatetime.service
-bash: setdatetime.service: command not found
volumio@volumio:~$ setdatetime.service

Wheaten · January 31, 2024, 8:22am

This is one command not two!

sudo systemctl status setdatetime.service

rak39 · January 31, 2024, 8:30am

Welcome to Volumio for Raspberry Pi (6.1.70-v7l+ armv7l)
Last login: Wed Jan 31 01:35:04 2024 from 192.168.0.115
volumio@volumio:~$ sudo systemctl status setdatetime.service
Unit setdatetime.service could not be found.
volumio@volumio:~$

Wheaten · January 31, 2024, 8:41am

Please follow my instructions as the service was not created.
Every block needs to be copied and ran as one statement.

block 1:

cat <<EOF >> /home/volumio/setdatetime.sh
#!/bin/bash
date +"%d %b %Y %T %Z" -s "$(curl -s --head http://google.com | grep '^Date:' | cut -d' ' -f 3-)"
EOF

block 2:

chmod 755 /home/volumio/setdatetime.sh

block 3:

sudo cat <<EOF >>/lib/systemd/system/setdatetime.service
[Unit]
Description=Date Time service
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/volumio/setdatetime.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

block 4:

sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/setdatetime.service && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable setdatetime.service && sudo systemctl start setdatetime.service