nygaala;693612 Wrote: > Thanks for a quick reply! But still: shouldn't somebody either have > considered using a better clock - or even an automatic update of the > time?
There are a couple issues here. The Touch is designed to get its time from a server. If you are connected to a server on your own computer or the MySB.com this works fine. The problem is if you are running the internal server only then you are in a viscious circle, the Touch gets its time from the server and the server gets its time from the Touch! Any connection to an external server will set the time, but that means you have to have an internet connection AND you explicetly swith to an external server. You can manually set the time, but you can't do it from the gui, you have to login from another computer and type a command in. As to why the clock runs slow or fast, its because the use time are using the "linux system time", this is kept by software running off interrupts generated from the main processor clock, it not guaranteed to be very accurate. The Touch DOES have a real time clock in hardware which is WAY more accurate than "system" time, but nothing looks at it. There are some commands that will copy the RTC to system time and the other way as well but these are not being used now. In addition there is no battery on the RTC, so it gets reset when you unplug the power. What's needed is as an applet that gives the user a GUI for setting the time, which sets both the system time and RTC. Then every hour copies the RTC to system time. In addition you would need to change the existing update time from external server code to change the RTC as well as the system time. Someone else has figured out how load an NTP client onto the Touch, this goes out on the internet and grabs the time from a time server (not a squeezebox server) it works independantly of what squeezebox server you are connected to, but you have to have an internet connection for this to work. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82012 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
