>From a few days ago... [email protected] said: >> Pins 4 and 8 look like inputs. Does anybody know what you >> can send in there?
> Hal, it's already known to us: > http://www.mail-archive.com/time-nuts%40febo.com/msg69593.html Thanks. Summary: If you send "ptim:tcod:cont 0", that turns off the automatic (continuous) time messages. It doesn't turn on sending "scpi > " to tell you when it is ready for another command. Without the scpi, I thought a short delay might be needed. Except for two cases, it isn't. There may be more cases that I haven't discovered. The first case is switching to T2 mode. It takes about a second for the scpi on the Diagnostic port. I assume it's writing to flash. A delay in that path works without any delay in the normal case. The other case that needs special handling is the status page. I check for "Self Test:", then in the normal case discard the scpi. I have python code that does what I want and works on both J6 (no scpi) and J8 (with scpi). Every 30 seconds, it reads several parameters and writes them to a log file, then displays the status page. Poke me off-list if you want a copy. It's running on Linux but might be easy to port to Windows. The bottom line is that you (or NTP) can get both the text interface and PPS on a single connector. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
