[time-nuts] BeagleBone Black NTP server
Bill Dailey
docdailey at gmail.com
Sat May 10 02:59:22 UTC 2014
I have the adafruit and a ublox-6T each mated to raspberry pi's. With NTP they are essentially indistinguishable. I have something other than NTP in mind for the 6Tpi.
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> On May 9, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Brian Lloyd <brian at lloyd.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Chris Albertson
> <albertson.chris at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Brian Lloyd <brian at lloyd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone here made NTP run on BBB? My plan is to run NTP disciplined by
>>> my Trimble Thunderbolt on BBB.
>>
>>
>> NTP is likely already installed on the BBB. It ships with the BBB.
>
>
> That may be the case for the Angstrom distro but it is not the case for the
> Debian distro, which seems to be the future direction of BBB.
>
>
>> Some
>> configuration is needed to enable the service. Do this first and verify
>> you can run using Internet pool servers. Then after this is running you
>> physically connect your GPS then add lines in NTP's config file telling NTP
>> you have added another ref. clock.
>
> This link:
>
> http://the8thlayerof.net/2013/12/08/adafruit-ultimate-gps-cape-creating-custom-beaglebone-black-device-tree-overlay-file/
>
> Seems to have the bulk of the requisite information including building a
> GPS cape using the Adafruit GPS module. See:
>
> https://www.adafruit.com/product/746
>
> This isn't a timing receiver but would probably be adequate for NTP. But
> since I already have a T-bolt I figured I would use that as my timing
> source.
>
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