DS3231 doesn't update its internal time?

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UPD: with another chip of the same model RTC works just fine, presumably that the chip was broken/damaged.

I installed DS3231 RTC clock ( which is detected as DS1307 for some reason). My config.txt looks like

gpu_mem=64
dtoverlay=dwc2
dtoverlay=i2c-rtc,ds3231
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtparam=i2c_arm_baudrate=1000000
dtparam=spi=on
enable_uart=1

The clock is detected by i2cdetect and I can see that /dev/rtc0 exists.

dmesg | grep rtc shows

dmesg | grep rtc
[    4.021947] rtc-ds1307 1-0068: registered as rtc0

The problem is - hwclock -r always returns the same time. I can set it with hwclock -w and it will keep that very time for weeks.

Am I missing something there? Isn't it supposed to tick?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '19 at 23:48

The ONLY thing you have to do is include in /boot/config.txt:

dtoverlay=i2c-rtc,ds3231

All the RTC supported by the Pi kernel use the same rtc-ds1307 driver, but you NEED to tell the driver which chip you actually have. (The different chips have similar instruction sets and registers.)

NOTE you NEED to use a separate dtoverlay line for each overlay. Putting dwc2,i2c-rtc will not work.

There is no need to set time - it all happens AUTOMATICALLY, although you can set the RTC initially (if NTP not available) using hwclock --set see man hwclock for details.

See https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/51782/8697

okay, easy - looks like the chip is buggy itself, tried with another one - worked just fine. — jdevelop, Jun 30 '19 at 00:15

DS3231 doesn't update its internal time?

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