NTP-Server with Raspberry Pi and Sure Electronics GPS Eval board: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

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It was already a few years ago when I bought a Sure Electronics GPS timing receiver. Though, there was never enough time to complete and deploy it. I will do it now.
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It was already a few years ago when I bought a Sure Electronics GPS timing receiver. Though, there was never enough time to complete and deploy it. I have done it now.
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The Sure receiver is nice because it has 3,3V IO pins, and this matches perfectly with a Raspberry Pi. So it's a good point using it.
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Obviously many people have problems with the NTPD that comes with the recent raspian distributions: ntp 4.2.6p5. It does not support PPS...
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It is rather easy to make the kernel PPS aware, but ntp still is not capable of using it. I needed to recompile the ntp package so that I was able to use it. The symptom therefore is:
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* The tool '''ppstest''' does report the reception of a pulse, but even if you configure NTP correctly, it won't give you an output with PPS using the command '''ntpq -p'''.
  
 
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Version vom 11. April 2016, 11:35 Uhr

1 Scope

It was already a few years ago when I bought a Sure Electronics GPS timing receiver. Though, there was never enough time to complete and deploy it. I have done it now.

The Sure receiver is nice because it has 3,3V IO pins, and this matches perfectly with a Raspberry Pi. So it's a good point using it.

Obviously many people have problems with the NTPD that comes with the recent raspian distributions: ntp 4.2.6p5. It does not support PPS...

It is rather easy to make the kernel PPS aware, but ntp still is not capable of using it. I needed to recompile the ntp package so that I was able to use it. The symptom therefore is:

  • The tool ppstest does report the reception of a pulse, but even if you configure NTP correctly, it won't give you an output with PPS using the command ntpq -p.

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