PIClock stopped working.

[lstew452a]

When I went back to using DarkSky for PIClock every started to work fine. But a few days ago PIClock stopped working. How do find out what is wrong.

I found out I am an error

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(program exited with code: 127)

[BertLindeman]

Any error seen in the log file?

If not, it might help if you describe your system / how the PiClock is started,

[lstew452a]

Any error seen in the log file?

If not, it might help if you describe your system / how the PiClock is started, It says PiClock is starting but it does not come up.

[lstew452a]

Any error seen in the log file? If not, it might help if you describe your system / how the PiClock is started, It says PiClock is starting but it does not come up.

Raspbrry PI 400

[BertLindeman]

Any error seen in the log file?

The logfile(s) are written to:

/home/pi/PiClock/Clock/PyQtPiClock.1.log
/home/pi/PiClock/Clock/PyQtPiClock.2.log

and so on. log 1 should be the most recent.

Are these files recent? maybe issue on a terminal on the pi400: ls -l /home/pi/PiClock/Clock/PyQtPiClock.*.log

You could look into the most recent log, e.g. using in the terminal:

nano /home/pi/PiClock/Clock/PyQtPiClock.1.log

and look for any python error.

other posibility Did you do any software upgrade since the last time PiClock ran OKE?

[lstew452a]

nano /home/pi/PiClock/Clock/PyQtPiClock.1.log

Here is what the log says:

File "PyQtPiClock.py", line 409 print "getting current and forecast:" + time.ctime() ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I did not make any change. I wonder if Dark Sky turned off all trail accounts. All Dark Sky activity stopped 1/2.

I looked up the error. It is DarkSky. Here is the code.

def getwx(): global wxurl global wxreply print "getting current and forecast:" + time.ctime() wxurl = 'https://api.darksky.net/forecast/' + \ ApiKeys.dsapi + \ '/' wxurl += str(Config.location.lat) + ',' + \ str(Config.location.lng) wxurl += '?units=us&lang=' + Config.Language.lower() wxurl += '&r=' + str(random.random()

[ScottChapman]

That doesn't look like the current file

[BertLindeman]

Just verified that Dark Sky still works:

[BertLindeman]

Is the default python on your Pi400 maybe python3?

PiClock only runs python2.

Maybe there has been some change on your Pi with regard to python

[BertLindeman]

In a terminal:

python -V

shows the version

[n0bel]

That is exactly what is wrong. python3 is the default python on whatever system you're using.

Quick fix: in startup.sh change occurrences python to python2. There may be some python libraries missing as well.

[lstew452a]

That is exactly what is wrong. python3 is the default python on whatever system you're using.

Quick fix: in startup.sh change occurrences python to python2. There may be some python libraries missing as well.

I ran a tests and here are the results SD card vs Hard Drive on a Raspberry Pi 400 and PiClock

1. Both are using Rasoberry PI OS(32-bit) released 2020-12-02
2. Both use pi@raspberrypi:~/PiClock $ python -V Python 2.7.16
3. PiClock install steps are the same.
4. Config files are the same.
5. When I boot from the SD card PiClock works fine.
6. When I boot from the Hard Drive PIClock fails with error pi@raspberrypi:~/PiClock $ sh startup.sh -n -s Disabling screen blanking.... Setting sound to max (assuming Monitor Tv controls volume).... Checking for NeoPixels Ambilight... Checking for GPIO Buttons... Starting gpio-keys Service... Checking for Temperature Sensors... Starting PiClock.... logging to screen. ioctl UI_DEV_CREATE: Invalid argument Traceback (most recent call last): File "PyQtPiClock.py", line 8, in import dateutil.parser ImportError: No module named dateutil.parser

[BertLindeman]

The last line is the problem as you probably already know. Some of the requirements are missing on that system, from the issue Darksky API Replacement

Extra Notes:
Updated dateutil and tzlocal may be needed:
sudo pip install python-dateutil --upgrade
sudo pip install tzlocal --upgrade

[lstew452a]

sudo pip install tzlocal --upgrade That upgrade fixed it. Thanks.