I've never had a problem installing them. Do need to make sure you have it sitting on the correct pins though and follow the instructions for your particular RTC.
On Saturday, 3 August 2019 15:36:08 UTC+3, Brezentrager wrote: > > :). I have a RTC here in front of me. When trying to install it last week, > I've crashed my entire installation and had to re-install weewx from scratch > > Am Samstag, 3. August 2019 14:29:32 UTC+2 schrieb Andrew Milner: >> >> or 3) Fix it properly and install a real time clock - they cost peanuts >> and solve loads of issues!! >> >> >> >> On Saturday, 3 August 2019 15:20:30 UTC+3, Brezentrager wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> in the documents for weewx it says: "WeeWX will not start up until the >>> system time is later than 1 January 2000" >>> >>> On my RPi I've (tried to) deinstall the fake-hwclock. Still, when the >>> RPi boots, the date is not set back to epoch=0 (1979) but to Feb 14, 2019. >>> >>> My weewx database starts in July 2019 only, so I can see two solutions >>> for my issue: >>> 1) Convince the RPi to forget about the Feb14 date and use an older one >>> after booting. Does anyone know how to set this? >>> 2) Or change the date that prevents weewx from starting (Jan 1, 2000). >>> is this possible? >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Manfred >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e15a8ec0-44eb-4cf7-8b32-40909aeb419e%40googlegroups.com.
