[time-nuts] Making a Raspberry Pi NTP server without soldering

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 15:36:00 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Collins, Graham <CollinG at navcanada.ca>wrote:

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> How you done anything with or have compared the PI to the Beaglebone Black?


If your only use of the device is to have an NTP server then why pay more
for the  Beaglebone?  The Pi based server seems to be better than required.
 "better" in this case meaning that it keeps time better then it can
transfer it over your network.

If you need a lower cost Linux server, you can repurpose a PogoPlug.  These
are roughly the same specs ARM process and a little bit of RAM but come
with a case and power supply all for under $20.  You can re-flash them with
a general purpose Linix-ARM distribution.  But no good place to attach a
PPS input except for using a USB-Serial dongle.   Well there is a serial
port header inside the box but I've not tried it.

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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