softRTC maybe a problem?

Rsadeika

I had this same exact program that use to run, or keep time fairly well, back before simpletools was created. Now I ran this program on my ActivityBot and my PropBOE board, the results are the same, in a ten minute run of the program it looses about six minutes. I wonder if somebody else could try this and see if they are getting the same or similar results. This was done in simple view, I added <time.h> and <sys/rtc.h>, maybe the experts can look at it and see if there are some glaring mistakes.

Ray

jazzed

You are missing some code.

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/148030-Soft-RTC?p=1184427&viewfull=1#post1184427

 _rtc_start_timekeeping_cog(); // <---- important.


  print("This is softRTC\n");
  print("help - for menu\n");

Rsadeika

Thanks jazzed. It was not just a senior moment, it was a senior episode... Anyway, now the program is working as expected, which also explains why I might be having problems with the other program.

Ray

Andy Lindsay (Parallax)

Moved from Learn to Propeller GCC.