Posted on June 07, 2018 at 20:20Greetings,
I believe I have found a bug in the HAL RTC driver. I am using an STM32L4, and I'm using STM32CubeMX v4.26.0 to generate my project, with firmware package v1.12.0 for STM32L4 series . I observed that using the Set/GetTime API was returning the wrong results - for example, I would see the seconds field go above 60, eventually rolling over at some time later. The issue is that the RTC registers handle time in BCD format, but the driver treats the number as purely hexadecimal. In other words, it's treating the 10's digit as base 16 instead of base 10. I made a fix for my local copy that seems to work. I will repeat it here, feel free to use part or all of it. This is in stm32l4xx_hal_rtc.c:
In HAL_RTC_SetTime(), line 795 I replaced this:
tmpreg = (((uint32_t)(sTime->Hours) << 16) | \
((uint32_t)(sTime->Minutes) << 8) | \
((uint32_t)sTime->Seconds) | \
((uint32_t)(sTime->TimeFormat) << 16));
with this:
uint8_t ht = sTime->Hours / 10;
uint8_t hu = sTime->Hours - 10 * ht;
uint8_t mnt = sTime->Minutes / 10;
uint8_t mnu = sTime->Minutes - 10 * mnt;
uint8_t st = sTime->Seconds / 10;
uint8_t su = sTime->Seconds - 10 * st;
tmpreg |= (ht << RTC_TR_HT_Pos) + (hu << RTC_TR_HU_Pos);
tmpreg |= (mnt << RTC_TR_MNT_Pos) + (mnu << RTC_TR_MNU_Pos);
tmpreg |= (st << RTC_TR_ST_Pos) + (su << RTC_TR_SU_Pos);
tmpreg |= sTime->TimeFormat << RTC_TR_PM_Pos;
and in
HAL_RTC_GetTime(), line 900 I replaced this:
sTime->Hours = (uint8_t)((tmpreg & (RTC_TR_HT | RTC_TR_HU)) >> 16);
sTime->Minutes = (uint8_t)((tmpreg & (RTC_TR_MNT | RTC_TR_MNU)) >>8);
sTime->Seconds = (uint8_t)(tmpreg & (RTC_TR_ST | RTC_TR_SU));
with this:
sTime->Hours = (uint8_t)(10 * ((tmpreg & RTC_TR_HT) >> RTC_TR_HT_Pos ) + ((tmpreg & RTC_TR_HU) >> RTC_TR_HU_Pos ));
sTime->Minutes = (uint8_t)(10 * ((tmpreg & RTC_TR_MNT) >> RTC_TR_MNT_Pos ) + ((tmpreg & RTC_TR_MNU) >> RTC_TR_MNU_Pos ));
sTime->Seconds = (uint8_t)(10 * ((tmpreg & RTC_TR_ST) >> RTC_TR_ST_Pos ) + ((tmpreg & RTC_TR_SU) >> RTC_TR_SU_Pos ));
My results now look correct. I hope that ST can confirm or deny my conclusion. I have attached my modified source file.
Regards,
Ricardo
