That's the kicker here. A couple of these sites have 450 APs and I
disabled the on-board and power port timing. That forces it to sit on
the timing port and I still had no data. I should've seen something,
like receiver info, 0 visible and 0 tracked sats, but all I got was the
"... if this is a remote AP..." message.
And in reality, if an AP (FSK, 430 or 450) is receiving sync via power
port, it listens for and displays data on the timing port anyway. I have
a couple sites now feeding sync over power via SyncInjector and I left
the parasitic pipes in place. Remember I asked about that? It works. :)
The difference is the 450 iGPS. They internally switch the serial data
circuit from the timing port to on-board GPS.. BUT, if the iGPS doesn't
have lock, then it doesn't switch.
On 2/18/2016 1:06 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
I believe (but am not more than about 50% certain) that there was a
version of the cambium software which didn't update the GPS status
screen unless it was using that device as it's sync source. Which was
frustrating since you couldn't tell why you weren't getting sync from
the device unless you were getting sync from the device. I'm not
sure if that has been fixed or not.
I will say that there have been numerous changes to the sync reception
hardware and software on the cambium side made with the intent to
improve sync reliability. I'd say in some ways this has been the
case, and some cases this hasn't. I think they'd be the first to
admit that there have been some challenges with the automatic
switching between sync sources, and I feel they still have some
distance to go to fix this on a more permanent basis.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:43 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We've seen our share of odd SyncPipe/SyncBox issues. Sometimes the
receiver just gets confused and needs to be power-cycled. I've
seen them reporting miles of location inaccuracy until reset.
One issue I had with the SyncBox at multiple sites last summer is
really weird. Power would go out and the UPS died. Came back a
couple hours later. And then I got no sync and no data from them
on all APs. Two of the sites we're using the parasitic power and
running one AP through it. All of the radios were working
perfectly fine, just no GPS data nor sync. Power cycle it,
nothing. Leave it alone and then a couple hours later, bam, GPS
sync and data comes back out of the blue. Even if the receiver
can't get lock, I should see some data on the AP's GPS status
pages. No idea what that's about.
On 2/17/2016 4:56 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
We have a site that starts getting sync errors once or twice a
day. We've found if we power cycle the sync injector and the sync
pipe, the errors "go away" for a period of 3 - 6 weeks.
So that is our solution for the time being. We set up an alert
when we get sync errors. At which time we power cycle the sync
injector/sync pipe during off-hours (~~ 2AM-3AM), and wait for
another few weeks.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 2/16/2016 8:07 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
The only issues I've heard like this are specifically related to
mounting in a bad location, and then the problem seems to come
and go just like you expect.
The units don't really have firmware on the unit itself, only
in the GPS module, and I can honestly say we've never had to
update a module in the field. I don't even know how to make
that happen at this point other than it can be done. The
modules come from the factory with our preloaded firmware, which
never changes unless we switch modules, which has happened
once, the last time being at least a year ago.
One caveat is that the newest syncboxes have been modified to
work with the 450i. So the radio driving electronics are
slightly different, even though the firmware is the same. This
only is relevant to units shipped in the last month or so.
If you can come up with the serial numbers of affected units
that might help in case something happened to a batch here
(like some undetected bad modules from our supplier)
The other thing to look at is if the status screen is really
updating on the radios. If the gps module doesn't supply data,
the screen stays the same.
On Feb 15, 2016 7:26 PM, "Craig House" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We have been deploying sync box 12 units with Netonix
switches for the last 6-9 months with great success.
However, several of the syncbox12's we have deployed seem to
loose and acquire sync repeatedly until they are power
cycled. This affects all the customers on the tower during
that time. Is there a firmware version that fixes this?
I'm not sure how to even update firmware on a syncbox? The
Sync status tab always shows that the device is tracking 10
or so satellites but the device is not passing sync on. In
some other installations we have out there they have never
had any issues. It seems to be several that were deployed
about the same time that are doing this but I cant swear to
it. Forrest?? is there an easy fix to this or have you
heard about this from anyone else?
Craig
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