Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-08-03, Greg Hennessy greg.henne...@cox.net wrote: Well, I chose the Trible Accutime just to have access to a PPS Your Accutime does provide a TTL PPS signal (by the way, PPS capable GPS receivers are quite inexpensive and common these days) but USB isn't the right way to import the

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread Rob
Greg Hennessy greg.henne...@cox.net wrote: Well, I chose the Trible Accutime just to have access to a PPS Your Accutime does provide a TTL PPS signal (by the way, PPS capable GPS receivers are quite inexpensive and common these days) but USB isn't the right way to import the signal. Since

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread David Taylor
On 02/08/2014 22:27, Greg Hennessy wrote: On 2014-08-02, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Thanks for both points, Greg. I am unfamiliar with the type 29 driver so I can't help much further. There is a page here mentioning 1 millisecond accuracy with Windows. Even

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Greg Hennessy greg.henne...@cox.net wrote: Since the hardware has a USB connector, what is the right way to import the signal if not USB? I'm sorry, I should have said best or ideal rather than right if your USB driver/converter supports mapping the PPS input to

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-08-01 15:33, Greg Hennessy wrote: I have a dell laptop running windows 7 with a trible accutime gold gps that runs my telescope. My timing requirements are rather modest, I'd like to be within 10 milliseconds of the correct time, but since my observatory isn't connected to the internet,

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread Greg Hennessy
On 2014-08-03, Brian Inglis brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote: Set your laptop power profile to High performance - see previous post on July 24. I think it is already set to this, but I will double check when I get back to work. Would be nice to see all the details. Try the following as

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread Greg Hennessy
On 2014-08-03, Paul tik-...@bodosom.net wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Greg Hennessy greg.henne...@cox.net wrote: Since the hardware has a USB connector, what is the right way to import the signal if not USB? I'm sorry, I should have said best or ideal rather than right if your USB

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-03 Thread Paul
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Greg Hennessy greg.henne...@cox.net wrote: A Trimble Accutime Gold, I beleive it was the starter kit version. There is a box the RS422 plugs into, there is a power connector, and a USB to my laptop. If you have a Starter Kit and you're using the UIM for RS-422

[ntp:questions] Possible error with autokey documentation

2014-08-03 Thread Adam Chou
First off, I'm not entirely certain if it's a problem with the documentation or just the way I'm implementing IFF autokey. I'm running RHEL 6.3 x86_64 with ntpd 4.2.4p8 The issue I'm having is in this section:

Re: [ntp:questions] Possible error with autokey documentation

2014-08-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
Adam Chou writes: First off, I'm not entirely certain if it's a problem with the documentation or just the way I'm implementing IFF autokey. I'm running RHEL 6.3 x86_64 with ntpd 4.2.4p8 That is Really Old Software. Many changes and improvements have been made to how things work since