On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Keith VE7GDH<[email protected]> wrote:
> re the script for sending objects... I presume the T2 needs a GPS > connected to get the date / time so it knows when it's Tuesday? Nope, I just keep track of the number of seconds that pass by. Because the OT2m gets busy occasionally, the timing does slip a little bit. It's not a Swiss watch by any means. Now, the astute among you will realize that the counters need to be zeroed at 00:00:00 Sunday morning to be on time. There's no way of currently pulling time out of a GPS string, or even sniffing one out of a timestamped APRS packet, so it requires a manual reset at midnight. However, one could write a script that would preset the counters to a specific time and day, and then call that script at that time. As the timing slips further out of sync, one could call the synchronising script as need be. For a script that simply dumps a string into the network every 10 minutes or so, it doesn't really matter if the clock slips slightly. James VE6SRV
