[arm-allstar] Redefining the NTP source

[Michael Webb]

Dan,

If you want to disable it while you figure out if you want a RTC, then you
will have to select option 9 Start Bash Shell interface.

When you see # type this:

crontab -e

Then place a # in front of the line that says saytime.pl

then hit Ctrl+O to write out aka save the file. Then Ctrl+x to exit.

See this for a better example:

http://lists.hamvoip.org/pipermail/arm-allstar/2015-February/000814.html


Mike

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 7:37 AM "David McGough via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Dan,
>
> None of the RPi boards include a Real Time Clock.  So, as you realize,
> another source is needed.  The simplest, inexpensive, solution is a
> battery RTC, such as this type:
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/222920619499
>
> This same basic board is available from many sources, the above listing
> just being one example.
>
> I've got perhaps a dozen of these RTC boards installed and they work
> pretty well, a few seconds a month drift--obviously not as good as GPS,
> but they're really simple and usually "good enough."
>
> A setup script is here:
>
> http://lists.hamvoip.org/pipermail/arm-allstar/2019-October/013331.html
>
>
> If you really need a precision time source, many little GPS boards are
> available. If this is the direction you're wanting to go, I dig up links
> to boards I've used?
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, "w2put--- via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>
> > I have a repeater that is at a site with no normal internet, just when
> I'm on site for service and have a hot spot available. So last week while
> doing service I ran an update and it fixed the time announcement, and when
> I say fixed I really mean broke it because I had it disabled. The
> standalone Pi can't keep an accurate clock for anything, and now it's back
> announcing the time. Right or wrong. I can't find the details on how to
> unfix it again.
> > So what I was thinking of doing is using either a local Spectracom GPS
> Netclock for NTP via Ethernet or a USB GPS. Anyone know if and how either
> could be done? I kinda like having the time, but unless I can get a local
> NTP I'll have to figure out how to disable it again.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,Dan W2PUT
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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