[arm-allstar] Redefining the NTP source

[Joe Moskalski]

If you have an onsite source of NTP via Ethernet you can install NTPD and
set that up as you clock reference too.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 3:48 PM "w2put--- via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Howdy folks, here's an update in the event you are interested. After
> pondering my options I decided to persue the RTC. I found the one that Dave
> shared a link to also available on Amazon, but I didn't feel like waiting
> till February, so I ordered another version that didn't have the easy plug
> on header. The no header actually works best for me in this particular case.
> Using the script info that Dave so kindly shared a link to, some really
> good guessing, and enlisting the help of the Google, I eventually figured
> out what to actually do with the information. Scripts aren't exactly
> something I'm even remotely skilled at.
> After a couple hours of messing around I got it working on the desk in a
> test environment. I'm now very confident that I can easily repeat that in
> the field. So hopefully within the next week or so I'll have time to get to
> the site and implement it. Since it will have been more than an hour
> between figuring it out and implementing in the field I made sure to
> document how I did it because I knew I wouldn't remember exactly what I did
> if I didn't write it down. If anyone is interested in the doc I'll be happy
> to share it.
> 73Dan W2PUT
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>   On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:37 AM, David McGough<kb4fxc at inttek.net>
> 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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