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Post: Hello Robert The RTC error "hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method" means that the RTC on the Expander Pi is not visible to the hardware clock routines in Linux. Can you try running the command "[b]sudo i2cdetect -y 1[/b]"? It should return a list of the I2C devices on the bus which with the Expander Pi should be 0x20 and 0x68. If the hardware clock is configured correctly the 0x68 should be replaced with 0xUU. We have an [url=/kb/article/30/rtc-pi-setup-on-raspberry-pi-os]Raspberry Pi RTC tutorial[/url] which shows how to configure the RTC on the Expander Pi to be used as a hardware clock in Linux. If you want to control the RTC without using hwclock then you can access it directly using our [url=https://github.com/abelectronicsuk/ABElectronics_Python_Libraries/tree/master/ExpanderPi]Python library[/url]. The [url=https://github.com/abelectronicsuk/ABElectronics_Python_Libraries/blob/master/ExpanderPi/demos/demo_rtcsetdate.py]demo_rtcsetdate.py[/url] script shows how you can set and read the date using python. I have fixed the errors in our IO tutorials, thank you for pointing them out. If the expander pi library is crashing with an ADC related error then that could mean the SPI bus is not configured correctly as that is required by the ADC and DAC sections of the library. Can you try going through our [url=https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/2/spi-and-raspbian-linux-on-a-raspberry-pi]SPI tutorial[/url] to make sure the SPI bus is configured correctly and see if that fixes the error? When importing the IO class it is easiest to import the whole Expander Pi library and then create an instance of the IO class by referencing it through the ExpanderPi object. import ExpanderPi io = ExpanderPi.IO() I have updated both of the IO tutorials in the Expander Pi section of the knowledge base to use this method of importing the library.