[mythtvnz] Timesync via Sat.

[Andrew Ruthven]

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On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:38 +1200, 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=20
> > time out of the DVB-S stream instead of using a TCP-IP based webserver=20
> > for time sync??  The STBs do this so it should be possible under MythTV=
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> > 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.

Another option is dvbdate_ntp which provides the DVB sourced timestamp
as a NTP source.  Only useful if you're already use NTP, or want to use
NTP.

Website:
  http://simon.arlott.org/sw/dvbdate_ntp/

I've been meaning to wrap it up as a Debian package, but haven't got
around to it yet...

Cheers!

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Andrew Ruthven
Wellington, New Zealand
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