Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > OK, I will believe you. However since the driving voltage of the > garmin 18 is usually taken from the USB and is 5 V, the output PPS > voltage will be less than 5V. ( maybe 4.5) Does that make a > difference? In my experience, no. Anything above about 3V should be OK. Taking a

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2008-12-31, David J Taylor wrote: > >> Steve Kostecke wrote: >> >>> The FreeBSD kernel does not need a "PPS patch". One merely has to >>> specify the PPS option at compile time. >> >> But the FreeBSD 5.3 I had did not include PPS, so that's presumably >> why I needed to

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
"Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >Unruh wrote: >> Tim Shoppa writes: >> >>> On Dec 30, 12:32=A0pm, Unruh wrote: "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: > Tim Shoppa wrote: >> On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >>> Antonio, >>> If you are

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
David Woolley writes: >dhavey wrote: >> "Voltage levels >> Diagrammatic oscilloscope trace of voltage levels for an uppercase >> ASCII "K" character (0x4b) with 1 start bit, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit >> >> The RS-232 standard defines the voltage levels that correspond to >> logical one and logica

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
George R. Kasica writes: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:40:27 GMT, Unruh >wrote: >>George R. Kasica writes: >> >>What am I doing wrong here when I add back GPS data to break this >>thing??? >Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I >don't pass the d

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-12-31, David J Taylor wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> The FreeBSD kernel does not need a "PPS patch". One merely has to >> specify the PPS option at compile time. > > But the FreeBSD 5.3 I had did not include PPS, so that's presumably > why I needed to (or was advised to) re-compile t

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:40:27 GMT, Unruh wrote: >George R. Kasica writes: > >What am I doing wrong here when I add back GPS data to break this >thing??? >>> >>> Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I don't pass the data out to anywhere so there's no rea

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: > "David J Taylor" [] >> With just the reference clock type 20, I get the accuracy needed. >> The PPS line from the GBS-18 LVC is wired to the DCD line of the >> serial port. In my ignorance, I don't see why you even need the SHM >> driver, but as I said before, I'm no expert! I don'

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2008-12-30, Unruh wrote: > >> "David J Taylor" writes: >> >>> I'm no expert! I don't see why my system picks up the PPS from just >>> the type 20 driver, and yours does not. >> >> Because you have the PPS kernel patch installed or it was >> automatically instaled in BSD

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread David Woolley
dhavey wrote: > "Voltage levels > Diagrammatic oscilloscope trace of voltage levels for an uppercase > ASCII "K" character (0x4b) with 1 start bit, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit > > The RS-232 standard defines the voltage levels that correspond to > logical one and logical zero levels. Valid signals ar

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: > Tim Shoppa writes: > >> On Dec 30, 12:32=A0pm, Unruh wrote: >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Tim Shoppa wrote: > On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >> Antonio, >> If you are really from nic.br please use your email add

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-12-30, Unruh wrote: > "David J Taylor" writes: > >>I'm no expert! I don't see why my system picks up the PPS from just >>the type 20 driver, and yours does not. > > Because you have the PPS kernel patch installed or it was > automatically instaled in BSD? The OP does not and does not wan

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
Tim Shoppa writes: >On Dec 30, 12:32=A0pm, Unruh wrote: >> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >> >> >> >> >> >> >Tim Shoppa wrote: >> >> On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >> >>> Antonio, >> >> >>> If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that >> >>> d

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: > >> Unruh wrote: >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >>> Tim Shoppa wrote: > On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >> Antonio, >> >> If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that >> d

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread dhavey
On Dec 30, 2:16 pm, David Woolley wrote: > > Yes, and 0 V lies right in the middle of that, and teh behaviour is apt to > > be undefined. > > The behaviour for RS232 control lines is not undefined. O volts is > unequivocally OFF. In practice, the same receivers are used for data lines. > > The s

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread David Woolley
> Yes, and 0 V lies right in the middle of that, and teh behaviour is apt to > be undefined. The behaviour for RS232 control lines is not undefined. O volts is unequivocally OFF. In practice, the same receivers are used for data lines. The significance of the transition region is that driver

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David Woolley
Unruh wrote: > Yes, well... The RS232 standard says that teh signal levels are -12V and > +12V and that the absolute minimum be -5V and +5V. However, many serial These are requirements on drivers, not on receivers. > chip makers have bent those standards and the serial port may or may not There

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: > >> Unruh wrote: >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >>> Tim Shoppa wrote: > On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >> Antonio, >> >> If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that >> d

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread dhavey
On Dec 30, 9:28 am, Unruh wrote: > ober...@es.net (Kevin Oberman) writes: > >> From: dhavey > >> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:07:25 -0800 (PST) > >> Sender: questions-bounces+oberman=es@lists.ntp.org > > >> Garmin specs say: The rising edge of the signal is aligned to the > >> start of each GPS

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
"Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >Unruh wrote: >> "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >> >>> Tim Shoppa wrote: On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: > Antonio, > > If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that > domain. It is unacceptable

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread dhavey
On Dec 30, 1:36 pm, dhavey wrote: > On Dec 30, 9:39 am, David Woolley > > > > wrote: > > Unruh wrote: > > > Garmin defines the leading edge as the transition from 0V to 5V on the PPS > > > line. Now serial has two levels -12V and +12V. with capacitive coupling, > > > There's no capacitive couplin

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
George R. Kasica writes: What am I doing wrong here when I add back GPS data to break this thing??? >> >> >>>Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I >>>don't pass the data out to anywhere so there's no real need for it) >> >>What does "I added back GPS NMEA" mea

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
George R. Kasica writes: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:14:52 GMT, Unruh >wrote: >>"David J Taylor" >> writes: >> >>>Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >>>[] I think your best help/advice will come from another GPS18LVC user. >> >>>I described my own simple setup here: >> >>> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
David Woolley writes: >Unruh wrote: >> Garmin defines the leading edge as the transition from 0V to 5V on the PPS >> line. Now serial has two levels -12V and +12V. with capacitive coupling, That was supposed to be a capital W and the beginning of a new sentence. Sorry. >There's no capacitive

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
"David J Taylor" writes: >George R. Kasica wrote: >[] >> Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I >> don't pass the data out to anywhere so there's no real need for it) >> >> and I see >> >> # ntpq -p >> remote refid st t when poll reach delay off

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread dhavey
On Dec 30, 9:39 am, David Woolley wrote: > Unruh wrote: > > Garmin defines the leading edge as the transition from 0V to 5V on the PPS > > line. Now serial has two levels -12V and +12V. with capacitive coupling, > > There's no capacitive coupling; it is assumed that the transmission line > and l

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Tim Shoppa
On Dec 30, 12:32 pm, Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: > > > > > > >Tim Shoppa wrote: > >> On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: > >>> Antonio, > > >>> If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that > >>> domain. It is unacceptable to use a g

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
George R. Kasica wrote: [] > Do you have the PPS kernel hack compiled in? That may be doing it for > you. I can't easily add that here with the Fedora Core 9 RPM kernel I > have. What are you using in your ntp.conf settings for the clock setup > lines and fudge? > > George Yes, I'm using FreeBSD,

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
George R. Kasica wrote: [] >> And it does not report on the resulting time until the sentences >> finish. Having just the one standard sentence would reduce that time. > How would I get that to occur? I don't see a way to cut down on the > data sent by the unit Here's a snippet of the code I

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: > >> Tim Shoppa wrote: >>> On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: Antonio, If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that domain. It is unacceptable to use a gmail account for such notifica

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:24:36 GMT, "David J Taylor" wrote: >George R. Kasica wrote: >[] >> Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I >> don't pass the data out to anywhere so there's no real need for it) >> >> and I see >> >> # ntpq -p >> remote refid st

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:14:52 GMT, Unruh wrote: >"David J Taylor" > writes: > >>Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >>[] >>> I think your best help/advice will come from another GPS18LVC user. > >>I described my own simple setup here: > >> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm > >>but it's not L

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
>>>What am I doing wrong here when I add back GPS data to break this >>>thing??? > > >>Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I >>don't pass the data out to anywhere so there's no real need for it) > >What does "I added back GPS NMEA" mean? What program did you use to do >

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
ober...@es.net (Kevin Oberman) writes: >> From: dhavey >> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:07:25 -0800 (PST) >> Sender: questions-bounces+oberman=es@lists.ntp.org >> >> Garmin specs say: The rising edge of the signal is aligned to the >> start of each GPS second. This means edge on assert right?

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > Garmin defines the leading edge as the transition from 0V to 5V on > the PPS line. Now serial has two levels -12V and +12V. with > capacitive coupling, the garmin signal would be something like -2.5V > to 2.5 V which really is way out of spec for the serial port. (Or > with the ty

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
"Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >Tim Shoppa wrote: >> On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >>> Antonio, >>> >>> If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that >>> domain. It is unacceptable to use a gmail account for such notifications. >>> >>> Danny >>

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread David Woolley
Unruh wrote: > Garmin defines the leading edge as the transition from 0V to 5V on the PPS > line. Now serial has two levels -12V and +12V. with capacitive coupling, There's no capacitive coupling; it is assumed that the transmission line and load behave as capacitive, but that is in parallel.

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
George R. Kasica writes: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:42:06 -0600, George R. Kasica > wrote: >>On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:25:55 GMT, "David J Taylor" >> wrote: >> >>>David J Taylor wrote: Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > I think your best help/advice will come from another GPS18LVC user.

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
George R. Kasica wrote: [] > Next stepI added back GPS NEMA data without the gpsd daemon (I > don't pass the data out to anywhere so there's no real need for it) > > and I see > > # ntpq -p > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset > jitter > ==

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
"David J Taylor" writes: >Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >[] >> I think your best help/advice will come from another GPS18LVC user. >I described my own simple setup here: > http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm >but it's not Linux, and I don't feel competent enough to give "advice". >I

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread Unruh
George R. Kasica writes: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:59:50 -0600, George R. Kasica > wrote: >>On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:42:06 -0600, George R. Kasica >> wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:25:55 GMT, "David J Taylor" >>> wrote: >>> David J Taylor wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > []

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > The other problem is that the the voltage levels might be wrong. A > serial > port is supposed to be -12V to 12V, not the 0-5V that the PPS line on > the garmin delivers. Now some serial ports are OK with the 0-5V but > that is pretty > unusual. YOu either need a voltage convert

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Tim Shoppa wrote: > On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: >> Antonio, >> >> If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that >> domain. It is unacceptable to use a gmail account for such notifications. >> >> Danny > > This is usenet, where anyone can set

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:25:52 +, David Woolley wrote: >George R. Kasica wrote: > >> I have good PPS and am getting GPS NEMA in as well but the offset for >> the NEMA data seems quite largewhat would I do to fix that?? > >Nothing. It's normal. > >NMEA feeds from GPS receivers have rather l

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp survey

2008-12-30 Thread Tim Shoppa
On Dec 29, 10:47 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: > Antonio, > > If you are really from nic.br please use your email address from that > domain. It is unacceptable to use a gmail account for such notifications. > > Danny This is usenet, where anyone can set their "from" address to anythi

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread David Woolley
George R. Kasica wrote: > I have good PPS and am getting GPS NEMA in as well but the offset for > the NEMA data seems quite largewhat would I do to fix that?? Nothing. It's normal. NMEA feeds from GPS receivers have rather low priority for timing data and can easily err by this sort of amo

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:59:50 -0600, George R. Kasica wrote: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:42:06 -0600, George R. Kasica > wrote: > >>On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:25:55 GMT, "David J Taylor" >> wrote: >> >>>David J Taylor wrote: Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > I think your best help/advice will c

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:42:06 -0600, George R. Kasica wrote: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:25:55 GMT, "David J Taylor" > wrote: > >>David J Taylor wrote: >>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >>> [] I think your best help/advice will come from another GPS18LVC user. >>> >>> I described my own simple setup

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:25:55 GMT, "David J Taylor" wrote: >David J Taylor wrote: >> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> [] >>> I think your best help/advice will come from another GPS18LVC user. >> >> I described my own simple setup here: >> >> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm >> >> but

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:47:56 GMT, Unruh wrote: >George R. Kasica writes: > Since you have a GPS receiver, three internet servers should be sufficient as backup and a sanity check for the GPS. >>>See below, now set up as recommended with three us.pool.ntp.org >>>servers but as you say it

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS 18LVC Setup but questions on best way

2008-12-30 Thread George R . Kasica
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:53:00 GMT, Unruh wrote: >George R. Kasica writes: > >>On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:30:39 +, David Woolley >> wrote: > >>>George R. Kasica wrote: >>> still seing both of the local GPS/PPS entries as false tickers but I also see the offsets are huge compared to other

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance?

2008-12-30 Thread David Woolley
Hal Murray wrote: > > RS-232 signals are active-low so "assert" may mean low. RS232 uses positive logic for control signals and negative logic for data. > ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/quest