I'm looking for a way to keep the date/time correct on the empeg seeing it likes to reset it back to 12:00am July 1 2000 every once in while for no reason I can figure out.

I guess a wishlist for (J)emplode/hijack/2.0 might be to sync the time with the pc and/or time server. But for now i'm trying to use the rdate binary found here. But it doesn't seem to be connecting and just sits there. Any ideas?

seeing it likes to reset it back to 12:00am July 1 2000 every once in while for no reason I can figure out.

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the FAQ master strikes agian! do you mark peoples shirts with a "FAQ" with your sword when you come across them?

ROFL

It's possible you've got an Empeg of which the date/time function is faulty.
I've also encountered this : every time I pulled the power from my Empeg (even for one minute), the next time it booted the date and time was reset to 12:00am July 1 2000.

I contacted support and sent my player in for repairs. I ended up getting a completely new one because David also wasn't able to figure out what was wrong with it. He would've Hugo take a look at it, but he was out of the country at that time.

Player shipped and received back in the same week...impeccable service...

I had actually checked the FAQ and not sure it really aplies to me. The date only gets reset on random occasions. Not at every pullout from the dock/AC adapter and not every time I do a reboot through hijack or the web interface. Just randomly. Not that much of a big deal.

Does anyone have a working rdate binary for the Empeg/RioCar ?

I'd like one to add to my player as a Hijack menu extension ( ;@MENUEXEC )

I don't know about rdate, but one of Roger's tarballs contains ntpdate.

Mark,
have you found a working rdate binary? If not you can download one from my empeg at http://www.empeg.homelinux.com/rdate (It's version 1.4)
If you need some other arm/empeg binaries just ask.

Super, thanks.

I'm going to stick it onto my players, and add it to the Hijack menu so I can just run it manually whenever I feel like syncing the clock.

Eg. in config.ini:
Code:

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[hijack]
;@MENUEXEC Fix_Date_and_Time exec /drive0/rdate -s myserver

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Cheers

Handy, but it doesn't work for me...

empeg:/# /drive0/bin/rdate -s 192.168.1.1
rdate: Name or service not known: 192.168.1.1

I do have a working rdate server on the local network at that IP (used by several other computers).

-Mike

You might need libresolv or one of the libnss* libraries. I know that ntpdate required a couple of those, but I can't remember which ones. They're in Roger's base tarball.

I had the same problem, but untarring base.tar.gz in the / of the empeg didn't seem to allow rdate to run. Where did you untar it to get it to work? I finally gave up and got ntpdate to work.