Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Eder
r the help. Michael Eder -Original Message- From: questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of unruh Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:39 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-15 Thread David Lord
unruh wrote: On 2011-07-15, David Lord wrote: Michael Eder wrote: Again we are talking effectively what happens. There is a good deal of logic what to do if the NMEA and/or pps does not come in and if the system clock is significantly different from either the NMEA or pps. A whole day on the

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-15 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-15, David Lord wrote: > Michael Eder wrote: >> Again we are talking effectively what happens. There is a good deal of >> logic what to do if the NMEA and/or pps does not come in and if the system >> clock is significantly different from either the NMEA or pps. A whole day >> on the la

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-15 Thread David Lord
Michael Eder wrote: Again we are talking effectively what happens. There is a good deal of logic what to do if the NMEA and/or pps does not come in and if the system clock is significantly different from either the NMEA or pps. A whole day on the lab bench with a scope on both the pps and the N

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-15 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-15, Michael Eder wrote: > Again we are talking effectively what happens. There is a good deal of > logic what to do if the NMEA and/or pps does not come in and if the system > clock is significantly different from either the NMEA or pps. A whole day > on the lab bench with a scope on

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Eder
: questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of unruh Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 5:50 PM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker On 2011-07-14, Michael Eder

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-14, Michael Eder wrote: > Not using gpsd, just writing the NMEA time and receive time into SHM (0) > like gpsd does. The pps does the same to SHM (1). Effectively the pps code sounds like a bad procedure. You want to make sure that the nmea actually gets associated with the second ma

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Chris Albertson
> ??? Exactly which of the problems he mentioned had anything to do with > "setting up ntp server in the ocean"? inability to use a timing GPS receiver and having to use a nav type unit. This entire problem would go away if he could use one of the more common timing receivers and a fixed antenna.

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Eder
and PPS. -Original Message- From: questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:13 AM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
On 7/14/2011 9:46 AM, Uwe Klein wrote: > Rob wrote: >> The native binary protocol usually has a SPECIFICATION >> about the time field in the messages (like: it is the >> current time at the moment the beginning of the message >> is leaving the receiver). The NMEA protocol has a >> "time of fix

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-14, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:04 AM, unruh wrote: > >> Why? That native binary will also suffer from large latency (the serial link >> is slow no matter what is being sent over it) and probably also fairly >> large jitter. And it suffers from the huge downside

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Hal Murray
>$GPZDA ? I tried it on one unit. It didn't help. If anybody has examples of it working please let us know what type of GPS receiver you tested. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ___ questions mailing list ques

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Uwe Klein
Rob wrote: The native binary protocol usually has a SPECIFICATION about the time field in the messages (like: it is the current time at the moment the beginning of the message is leaving the receiver). The NMEA protocol has a "time of fix", and that tells you nothing about what time it is now.

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:04 AM, unruh wrote: > Why? That native binary will also suffer from large latency (the serial link > is slow no matter what is being sent over it) and probably also fairly > large jitter. And it suffers from the huge downside of your having to > learn a whole new languag

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Rob
unruh wrote: > On 2011-07-14, Rob wrote: >> Michael Eder wrote: >>> We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA >>> (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms >>> jitter. >> >> Again, are you using gpsd? >> >> If so, you may want to tr

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-14, Rob wrote: > Michael Eder wrote: >> We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA >> (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms >> jitter. > > Again, are you using gpsd? > > If so, you may want to try removing the (huge) 68

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-14 Thread Rob
Michael Eder wrote: > We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA > (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms > jitter. Again, are you using gpsd? If so, you may want to try removing the (huge) 680ms offset inside gpsd instead of in n

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-13 Thread David Lord
Michael Eder wrote: We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms jitter. Here is the configuration file I am now using (any combination of tos entries seems to make no difference). When I star

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-13 Thread Mike S
At 04:38 PM 7/13/2011, Michael Eder wrote... We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms jitter ce000:~/current# ./ntpstatus | tee ntplog.txt remote refid st t when po

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-13 Thread David Woolley
Michael Eder wrote: We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms jitter. 680ms with an estimated error of the order of 10ms (I can't remember the default minimum distance). 0 not in 680 +/- 2

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Eder
We have looked at our GPS on a scope, the PPS it is dead on and the NMEA (just one sentence) is also reliable with about a 680 ms latency and 10 ms jitter. Here is the configuration file I am now using (any combination of tos entries seems to make no difference). When I start NTP is locks on to t

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-07-12, Michael Eder wrote: [snip: reformatted for 80 column displays] remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter xSHM(0) .NMEA. 0 l 13 16 377 0.000 43.755 66.491 *SHM(1) .PPS.

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-07-12, unruh wrote: > On 2011-07-12, Michael Eder wrote: > >> We are using a Garmin GPS 16x. I should clarify these are platforms >> in the > > 18x I presume. https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=13194 >> middle of the ocean so the sole time source is the GPS and PPS. > > Are they r

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-12, Michael Eder wrote: > We are using a Garmin GPS 16x. I should clarify these are platforms in the 18x I presume. > middle of the ocean so the sole time source is the GPS and PPS. Are they really waterproof enough to leave them out in the salty ocean? > We have measured the time

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-07-12, Chris Albertson wrote: >> The simplest explanation is that everything is working as expected but >> your GPS receiver is just not very good.  What you might try is >> turning off all the NMEA sentences you are not using.   I don't kn

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Rob
Michael Eder wrote: > We are using a Garmin GPS 16x. I should clarify these are platforms in the > middle of the ocean so the sole time source is the GPS and PPS. > We have measured the time delta between the GPS and the PPS and the GPS > while delayed to process the NMEA string has a relatively

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Michael Eder wrote: > We are using a Garmin GPS 16x.  I should clarify these are platforms in the > middle of the ocean so the sole time source is the GPS and PPS. Ok, then your requirements are modest. Typically when you see someone using GPS he is setting up s

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-12, Chris Albertson wrote: > The simplest explanation is that everything is working as expected but > your GPS receiver is just not very good. What you might try is > turning off all the NMEA sentences you are not using. I don't know > if the SHM driver degrades the accuracy or not b

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Eder
reliable. -Original Message- From: questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+meder=whoi@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 1:25 PM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Rob
Michael Eder wrote: > Hi Folks, > > For our buoy deployments we have GPS and a highly accurate oscillator > conditioned by the GPS PPS. Unfortunately when we let this run for longer > periods we see both the GPS and PPS being marked as false tickers. There is > a lot of information on the web ab

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Mike S
At 01:24 PM 7/12/2011, Chris Albertson wrote... On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Mike S wrote: > At 08:01 AM 7/12/2011, Michael Eder wrote... > Try adding "tos mindist 0.015" to your ntp.conf. This widens the The above is technically correct but if you find that Internet pool servers are ser

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Mike S wrote: > At 08:01 AM 7/12/2011, Michael Eder wrote... > Try adding "tos mindist 0.015" to your ntp.conf. This widens the correctness > interval used by the clock selection algorithm. Basically, it accommodates > the jitter in the serial NMEA stream. 0.01 i

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Mike S
At 08:01 AM 7/12/2011, Michael Eder wrote... For our buoy deployments we have GPS and a highly accurate oscillator conditioned by the GPS PPS. Unfortunately when we let this run for longer periods we see both the GPS and PPS being marked as false tickers I did try setting minclock and mins

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Albertson
The simplest explanation is that everything is working as expected but your GPS receiver is just not very good. What you might try is turning off all the NMEA sentences you are not using. I don't know if the SHM driver degrades the accuracy or not but you might try removing it. (See what others

Re: [ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Eder
Below is the NTP.conf file. The system runs great but the status does not seem to like our sources. remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == xSHM(0) .NMEA. 0 l

[ntp:questions] Single GPS/PPS time source gets marked as a falseticker

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Eder
Hi Folks, For our buoy deployments we have GPS and a highly accurate oscillator conditioned by the GPS PPS. Unfortunately when we let this run for longer periods we see both the GPS and PPS being marked as false tickers. There is a lot of information on the web about this, but I have not found a