.. currentmodule:: machine
The RTC is an independent clock that keeps track of the date and time.
Example usage:
rtc = machine.RTC() rtc.datetime((2020, 1, 21, 2, 10, 32, 36, 0)) print(rtc.datetime())
.. method:: RTC.datetime([datetimetuple])
Get or set the date and time of the RTC.
With no arguments, this method returns an 8-tuple with the current
date and time. With 1 argument (being an 8-tuple) it sets the date
and time.
The 8-tuple has the following format:
(year, month, day, weekday, hours, minutes, seconds, subseconds)
The meaning of the ``subseconds`` field is hardware dependent.
.. method:: RTC.init(datetime)
Initialise the RTC. Datetime is a tuple of the form:
``(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, tzinfo)``
All eight arguments must be present. The ``microsecond`` and ``tzinfo``
values are currently ignored but might be used in the future.
Availability: CC3200, ESP32, MIMXRT, SAMD. The rtc.init() method on
the stm32 and renesas-ra ports just (re-)starts the RTC and does not
accept arguments.
.. method:: RTC.now() Get get the current datetime tuple. Availability: WiPy.
.. method:: RTC.deinit() Resets the RTC to the time of January 1, 2015 and starts running it again.
.. method:: RTC.alarm(id, time, *, repeat=False) Set the RTC alarm. Time might be either a millisecond value to program the alarm to current time + time_in_ms in the future, or a datetimetuple. If the time passed is in milliseconds, repeat can be set to ``True`` to make the alarm periodic.
.. method:: RTC.alarm_left(alarm_id=0) Get the number of milliseconds left before the alarm expires.
.. method:: RTC.alarm_cancel(alarm_id=0) Cancel a running alarm. The mimxrt port also exposes this function as ``RTC.cancel(alarm_id=0)``, but this is scheduled to be removed in MicroPython 2.0.
.. method:: RTC.irq(*, trigger, handler=None, wake=machine.IDLE)
Create an irq object triggered by a real time clock alarm.
- ``trigger`` must be ``RTC.ALARM0``
- ``handler`` is the function to be called when the callback is triggered.
- ``wake`` specifies the sleep mode from where this interrupt can wake
up the system.
.. method:: RTC.memory([data]) ``RTC.memory(data)`` will write *data* to the RTC memory, where *data* is any object which supports the buffer protocol (including `bytes`, `bytearray`, `memoryview` and `array.array`). ``RTC.memory()`` reads RTC memory and returns a `bytes` object. Data written to RTC user memory is persistent across restarts, including :ref:`soft_reset` and `machine.deepsleep()`. The maximum length of RTC user memory is 2048 bytes by default on esp32, and 492 bytes on esp8266. Availability: esp32, esp8266 ports.
.. data:: RTC.ALARM0
irq trigger source