Tzdata issue about nhl-led-scoreboard

[falkyre]

Not sure what to say, I'm running multiple boards (7 or 8) and various different OSes (raspbian buster , raspbian bullseye, Alpine, Diet Pi) with the tzlocal at 4.2 and apscheduler at V3.6.3 and also 3.9.1. I'm also running different versions of Python (3.7.3 to 3.10). If you have a spare card, I'd start with a fresh install of the OS and start the install of the boards again. I don't run anything other than the NHL board so I don't know if you are clobbering what the NHL installs or vice versa.

[falkyre]

Totally different issue. So the other stuff with tzlocal and apscheduler are OK? To test, update your config to not use weather, weather alerts or weather forecast and see if it works. If it does, close this issue and open another one for the Environment Canada stuff. I'm seeing the same issue on some of my boards right now. Not sure if it's an EC datamart issue or something else.

[falkyre]

I recall coming up against this last year while developing some new functionality. It seems there's an issue with apscheduler when the OS updates the tzlocal library or python 3.7. What does this give you:

pip3 show apscheduler

and

pip3 show tzlocal

[pjockey]

pi@Scoreboard:~ $ pip3 show apscheduler
Name: APScheduler
Version: 3.7.0
Summary: In-process task scheduler with Cron-like capabilities
Home-page: https://github.com/agronholm/apscheduler
Author: Alex Grönholm
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages
Requires: pytz, setuptools, six, tzlocal
Required-by: 
pi@Scoreboard:~ $ pip3 show tzlocal
Name: tzlocal
Version: 4.2
Summary: tzinfo object for the local timezone
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Lennart Regebro
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages
Requires: backports.zoneinfo, pytz-deprecation-shim
Required-by: APScheduler

[pjockey]

sudo apt upgrade showed an update to tzlocal

[pjockey]

I uninstalled and the reinstalled the tzlocal package using pip3 and received this"

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
apscheduler 3.7.0 requires tzlocal~=2.0, but you have tzlocal 4.2 which is incompatible.

[falkyre]

Try updating apscheduler to the last V3.x version. Don't upgrade to the V4 beta as it will break everything.

sudo pip3 install apscheduler=3.9.1

The apscheduler V3.7.0 pins it's tzlocal requirements to V2 series, whereas the 3.5.3 version I am running and any version above the 3.7.0 will work with the tzlocal V4 series. I installed the apschedular V3.9.1 and it works with tzlocal V4.2

[pjockey]

This little mess up has taken down all of my boards. Nothing shows on the matrix, on any of the boards.

pi@Scoreboard:~/mlb-led-scoreboard $ pip3 show tzlocal
Name: tzlocal
Version: 4.2
Summary: tzinfo object for the local timezone
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Lennart Regebro
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
Requires: backports.zoneinfo, pytz-deprecation-shim
Required-by: APScheduler

pi@Scoreboard:~/mlb-led-scoreboard $ pip3 show apscheduler
Name: APScheduler
Version: 3.9.1
Summary: In-process task scheduler with Cron-like capabilities
Home-page: https://github.com/agronholm/apscheduler
Author: Alex Grönholm
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
Requires: pytz, setuptools, six, tzlocal
Required-by: 
pi@Scoreboard:~/mlb-led-scoreboard $ 

[pjockey]

This is the error I get now with the starting command:

pi@Scoreboard:~/nhl-led-scoreboard $ sudo python3 src/main.py --led-gpio-mapping=adafruit-hat-pwm --led-brightness=60 --led-slowdown-gpio=2 --led-cols=128 --led-rows=64 --led-rgb-sequence=BGR --led-row-addr-type=3
INFO: Validating config.json.....
INFO: config.json passes validation
22-10-04 17:28:00 INFO Scheduler started
22-10-04 17:28:00 DEBUG Looking for jobs to run
22-10-04 17:28:00 DEBUG No jobs; waiting until a job is added
22-10-04 17:28:00 DEBUG Starting new HTTPS connection (1): dd.weather.gc.ca:443
22-10-04 17:28:01 DEBUG https://dd.weather.gc.ca:443 "GET /citypage_weather/docs/site_list_en.csv HTTP/1.1" 200 32894
22-10-04 17:28:04 DEBUG Starting new HTTPS connection (1): dd.weather.gc.ca:443
Unable to connect to EC, try running again in a few minutes
pi@Scoreboard:~/nhl-led-scoreboard $ 

[pjockey]

It appears another reboot seem to have fixed whatever was the problem.

[falkyre]

There was an issue with the EC Data Mart. It was extremely slow hence the issue you were seeing. It does look like it's recovered now.