Apologies in advance if you already know some or all of this ... The instructions that you mention show you how to build an Arduino with a wired network connection. It has IP address 192.168.1.251. The Arduino offers a time service to other machines on your network.
You then need to connect the arduino to your broadband modem using an Ethernet cable. Other machines on your network can then connect to the time service using that IP address. The instructions also explain how to configure your PC to connect over the network: "Download the Dimension 4 software to the client PC. To set the IP address of the Time Server, select ‘settings’ then type 192.168.1.251in the Server window and ‘Arduino’ in the Location window. Select OK. Under ‘Advanced’ check that ‘Use the selected server’ is selected. Under ‘How often’ on the front page set the update rate as required (e.g. every 15 minutes)." You are getting an error message about localhost. That's just a name for "this machine" on a network. Is the error message coming from the Arduino or from the PC that you are trying to connect? Either way, you shouldn't be trying to get a time service for this machine from this machine. You should be setting up the PC to get the time from the Arduino. Hoping this helps. Regards Simon _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
