[mythtvnz] Timesync via Sat.

[Noel & Di]

David Zanetti wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:23 +1200, Noel & Di wrote:
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>>Something to ponder. What would it take to make a script to hook the 
>>time out of the DVB-S stream instead of using a TCP-IP based webserver 
>>for time sync??  The STBs do this so it should be possible under MythTV, 
>>but I have no idea how to do this.
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>You're after a tool called 'dvbdate', in Debian it's part of the
>dvb-utils package.
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>Note that it's not *that* accurate, very much sub-GPS or even well
>sourced NTP. If you have a network connection, NTP is a better option.
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Thanks David, How in-accurate is dvbdate - within a minute or so? I 
might go for that option to make my myth box a stand-alone unit
Noel