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How to use the RTC

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1 Purpose[edit source]

This article describes how to use the RTC.

2 How to set a hardware clock using the hwclock tool[edit source]

The correct system time must first be set with the date command. Type the date command to see the date and time format of the string:

 date
Fri Mar  9 12:18:51 UTC 2018
 date --set="Fri Mar  9 19:18:51 UTC 2018"
Fri Mar  9 19:18:51 UTC 2018

Set the hardware clock to this date:

 hwclock
Fri Mar  9 12:21:03 2018  0.000000 seconds

 hwclock --systohc --utc

 hwclock
Fri Mar  9 19:19:52 2018  0.000000 seconds

See [1] for more about date settings. See [2] for more about hwclock settings.

3 How to set an alarm[edit source]

# disable the alarm
 echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
# calculate alarm with 1 minute later
 wakeuptime=`date -d "1 minute" +%s`
# set the alarm
 echo $wakeuptime > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
root@stm32mp1:~# [  829.279019] rtc rtc0: Alarm occurred

You can also set an alarm 'n' seconds later:

 echo +10 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm

4 How to set an alarm and go into a system sleep state with the rtcwake tool[edit source]

# calculate an alarm 1 minute later
 wakeuptime=`date -d "1 minute" +%s`
# set wakeup on /dev/rtc0
 rtcwake -lt$wakeuptime -m mem
rtcwake: wakeup from "mem" using /dev/rtc0 at Sun Mar 11 10:48:06 2018
[  154.022303] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[  154.024421] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[  154.037258] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
[  154.044397] OOM killer disabled.
[  154.047555] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
[  154.055039] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)

One minute later...

NOTICE:  CPU: STM32MP157CAA Rev.B
NOTICE:  Model: STMicroelectronics STM32MP157C eval daughter on eval mother
NOTICE:  Board: MB1263 Var1 Rev.C-01
INFO:    Reset reason (0x810):
INFO:    System exits from STANDBY
INFO:    Using SDMMC
INFO:      Instance 1
INFO:    Boot used partition fsbl1
INFO:    Product_below_2v5=1: HSLVEN update is
INFO:      destructive, no update as VDD>2.7V
NOTICE:  BL2: v2.0(debug):v2.0-stm32mp-19-01-29
NOTICE:  BL2: Built : 15:58:42, Jan 29 2019
INFO:    BL2: Doing platform setup
INFO:    PMIC version = 0x10
INFO:    RAM: DDR3-1066/888 bin G 2x4Gb 533MHz v1.41
INFO:    BL2 runs SP_MIN setup
INFO:    BL2: Loading image id 4
INFO:    Loading image id=4 at address 0x2ffe5000
INFO:    Image id=4 loaded: 0x2ffe5000 - 0x30000000
INFO:    BL2: Skip loading image id 5
INFO:    read version 0 current version 0
NOTICE:  BL2: Booting BL32
INFO:    Entry point address = 0x2ffe5000
INFO:    SPSR = 0x1d3
INFO:    PMIC version = 0x10
NOTICE:  SP_MIN: v2.0(debug):v2.0-stm32mp-19-01-29
NOTICE:  SP_MIN: Built : 15:58:42, Jan 29 2019
INFO:    ARM GICv2 driver initialized
INFO:    stm32mp HSI (18): Secure only
INFO:    stm32mp HSE (20): Secure only
INFO:    stm32mp PLL2 (27): Secure only
INFO:    stm32mp PLL2_R (30): Secure only
INFO:    SP_MIN: Initializing runtime services
INFO:    SP_MIN: Preparing exit to normal world
[  154.074319] dwc2 49000000.usb-otg: suspending usb gadget configfs-gadget
[  154.196804] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  154.250046] CPU1 killed.
[  154.251704] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  154.252697] CPU1 is up
[  154.254885] rtc rtc0: Alarm occurred
[  154.273940] dwmac4: Master AXI performs any burst length
[  154.273972] stm32-dwmac 5800a000.ethernet eth0: No Safety Features support found
[  154.276938] usb usb2: root hub lost power or was reset
[  154.284703] dwc2 49000000.usb-otg: resuming usb gadget configfs-gadget
[  154.491151] dwc2 49000000.usb-otg: new device is high-speed
[  154.619589] dwc2 49000000.usb-otg: new device is high-speed
[  154.669343] usb 2-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[  154.697272] dwc2 49000000.usb-otg: new address 2
[  154.722774] configfs-gadget gadget: high-speed config #1: c
[  155.066198] OOM killer enabled.
[  155.069339] Restarting tasks ... done.
[  155.075470] PM: suspend exit

See [3] for more about rtcwake settings.

5 References[edit source]