P Nelson wrote: > Is any one else having the problem with the clock losing time on the > Touch when running TinyLMS? After about a week, the clock will be about > five minutes slow. I have to connect the mysqbox.com to reset the time > and then reconnect to TinyLMS to fix the time. > > It is like TinyLMS is not checking a world clock website. > > Anyone have a solution, besides running LMS on another computer? > > Thank you. > > Paul
There are several threads about this subject here. The gist is that LMS is designed to keep time from the computer it is running on. With TinyLMS that is linux running on the touch. Linux keeps time using a software clock running on the processor, it is not very acccurate. This clock gets updated when the touch connects to another LMS server. It could be mysqueezebox.com or another LMS on your LAN. There is a "Real Time Clock" (RTC) in the touch hardware which is way more accurate, but by default the software clock ignores it. It's not too hard to add the linux commands that sync the software clock to the RTC every so often (say once an hour), but the Touch does not have any way to automatically do this, you have to login and setup some scripts. There is a caveat, the RTC is NOT battery backed up, so every time it boots it goes back to January 1 1970. Another option is to add an NTP client to the Touch which will go out over the internet every so often and grab the time. IF your touch is routinely connected to the internet this is probably the best solution. There is a thread here about how to do this. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?87588-NTP-on-the-Touch Read the whole thread. The very last post mentons that there is already an NTP client in the latest Touch firmware, but it is not turned on by default. You will need to follow the instructions for editing the rcS file to automatically start the NTP client at boot time. One very important fact not mentioned in this thread, after editing the rcS file type: sync This flushes the memory buffer to the flash, if you don't do this the changes you made will be lost when you pull the plug on the Touch. Once you have NTP running you should not have any problems with losing time. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98974 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
