On 2017-02-03, sean <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-02-02, William Unruh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Another low-cost device is the Sure evaluation board: >>>> >>>> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Sure-GPS.htm >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/SKG16A-Bluetooth-RS232-USB-UART-GPS-Module-Demo-Board-/230844194302 >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the link! That's about half the price of the garmin and would >>> likely get me better precision than just syncing to the NTP pool. >> >> Yes. >>> > > Just curious, any experience with those?
Sure:-) Loads of it. I have used a couple for the past 4 years. Work well. Needs a little bit of work to get out the PPS signal (soldering a wire between a couple of points on the board). The GPS18 (both samples I had) I found would die after a few years. No idea why. Have not had that problem with the Sure boards, except one antenna was flakey and then died after a few months. No support from Sure-Electronics for that, so it seems it is a WYSIWYG. (Mind you a new antenna was just a copule of bucks, and a month wait. The free shipping is paid for in shipping time). > >>>> Windows uses NTP but not with the reference implementation, so of >>>> unknown quality, and not manageable in the same way. It used to be >>>> lousy, and I've not tested since then. >>>> >>> >>> I think I'll install the ntp client on my windows machine and see what >>> kind of time I can get. >> >> You would probably be better off syncing a linux machine to the gps >> board and then syncing the windows machine to that over the local Lan. >> >> > > Yes, but if the windows machine isn't at home, it won't sync. Allowing > remote access will come later. :) _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
