RTC on the Odroid W

This page details how to setup the RTC Odroid W on the Raspbian “wheezy” image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

  • Odroid W
  • uSD-Card ⇒ over 2GB or eMMC Module
  • RTC Backup battery
  1. Building the kernel
    Please refer to Kernel compilation for odroid-w
  2. With your Odroid W insert a RTC Backup Battery into the battery connector which is BT1.
  3. Enable I2C by running:
    sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

    Find the I2C line where the i2c is black listed

    blacklist i2c-bcm2708

    Comment it out by replacing it with the line below

    #blacklist i2c-bcm2708
  4. Now you have the RTC Odroid W running with the current date and time the next step is to make it load when the Odroid W boots.
    Edit the modules file:
     sudo vi /etc/modules 

    Add rtc-rc5t619 at the end of the file and save it.

  5. Next you want to add the RTC Odroid W at boot by editing /etc/rc.local.
    sudo vi /etc/rc.local
    Add the following at the bottom of the page above exit 0.
     echo rc5t619 0x32 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/new_device 
     hwclock -s 

    Save the file and reboot your Odroid W.

    sudo reboot

    If everything worked correctly the RTC Odroid W should be initialised on boot and the current date and time will be loaded into Linux.

  6. You can check the current time on the RTC Odroid W with:
     sudo hwclock -r

    If this is the first time you have run the RTC Odroid W it will display a date of July 17th 2014.

  7. If the Odroid W is connected to the internet the correct date and time should be set automatically otherwise you can set the current date and time using:
    sudo date -s "17 JUL 2014 18:00:00" 


  8. To save the date onto the RTC Odroid W use the following command:
     sudo hwclock -w 

    Verify the date has been saved onto the RTC Odroid W with:

    sudo hwclock -r