[mythtvnz] Timesync via Sat.

[Noel & Di]

Andrew Ruthven wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:38 +1200, David Zanetti wrote:
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>>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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>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.
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>Website:
>  http://simon.arlott.org/sw/dvbdate_ntp/
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>I've been meaning to wrap it up as a Debian package, but haven't got
>around to it yet...
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>Cheers!
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I am struggling to get my crontab entry to work
After creating  a crontab.txt file of 
0 * * * * /usr/bin/dvbdate --set
and invoking
crontab crontab.txt
I get a message "unable to set time: Operation not permitted.
What am I doing wrong??