What do you know, someone beat me to it, dragging up my old tboltd. I will check this out on the Raspberry Pi over the next few days, but it should be close to working right out of the box.
Ralph AB4RS > On Wed, January 13, 2016 8:30 am, Nick Sayer wrote: >>> No, ntpd would be getting time from the serial port, not from the >>> network socket. >> >> You're right. I may be wrong, but I would expect that either gapd or >> ser2net would want to open the serial device exclusively, which would >> spoil things. > ... >> You might investigate whether you could make some sort of intermediate >> service that could be a client of gpsd and provide the listening socket >> for LH. > > That is the right approach, and someone has already done that. > If I had seen this before I completely forgot, but my old friend N5TNL > pointed me to: > Original code written for BSD: > http://ralphsmith.org/~ralph/thunderbolt.tar.gz > > Patches for linux and info by Leigh Klotz (WA5ZNU): > http://wa5znu.org/2011/08/tbolt/ > > The original announcement for the BSD version was almost 6 years ago by > Ralph Smith: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg26128.html > > The follow-up by Leigh was right at 4 years ago: > https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2012-January/062566.html > > > Summary is the thunderboltd service runs and communicates with the > Thunderbolt, provides a network port for Lady Heather to connect to for > remote display and control of the Thunderbolt, and places the time into a > shared memory region for ntpd to pick up. > > It works on x86, so I'm getting ready to install an ARM compiler to see if > it compiles cleanly for ARM. I don't have the right RS232 level > translator yet to connect my Thunderbolt to my ARM system (BeagleBone > Black in my case, not RPi), so I can't check it out directly yet. > > -- > Chris Caudle > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
