Thanks Gary for the clarification. I showed these products to our
resident electrical engineer, and he thinks our manager would prefer we
buy a GPS device that already comes with a case and a serial port and a
power supply, so we don't have to spend man-hours fabricating something
and soldering on wires. (The raspberry pi still might be a possibility
but not the bare board.) Any suggestions for a product that is somewhat
more finished (and expensive) than the bare boards, but less than the
$1400 server I mentioned?
I really appreciate all the experience and wisdom here!
David,
what I'm gathering from your last email is that I might try re-doing
the pin configuration of the serial cable, to see if that is why the PPS
programs don't recognize it. Is that a fair statement? I'm getting
the feeling that the existing pin configuration is very non-standard.
I'm also willing to try "reference NTP" in place of chrony, but I'm not
very interested in Windows. :) I might try some of these things next
week when I have time.
Thanks again,
Devren