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Since they need internet connectivity to phone home status to McCloud, I don't know why they wouldn't just run an NTP client to keep their time synchronized and
by nixgeek 6y ago
Since they need internet connectivity to phone home status to McCloud, I don't know why they wouldn't just run an NTP client to keep their time synchronized and accurate?
Moreover the $750 you reference must be a commercial product since you can do GPS on a Raspberry Pi for < $50 easily? Which product are you thinking works for this scenario? Think I've seen everything from $300 to $13000 solutions for this over the years.
- joezydeco 6y agoYou could have a cesium time source in the thing but if the service tech or manager sets it wrong...you're still borked.
- OJFord 6y agoBut exactly the same borked each and every day!
- kelnos 6y agoI doubt these machines are internet-connected. Most likely is that the store manager notices the machine has gone into its cleaning cycle and manually marks the item on the menu as unavailable.
- travisjungroth 6y agoOr a G Shock with radio based time correction is $90. Not saying you could use the watch, but maybe the receiver is available.
- tmearnest 6y agoAnd use some computer vision on the raspberry pi to read off the time? I love it! This is why they don’t let me work on hardware.
- dkn775 6y agoCan you provide some information as to how I could do a cheap GPS setup for a non GPS iPad in a similar manner?
- _-___________-_ 6y agoI think you can do TTL serial on the headphone jack? Just hook a uBlox module up there (or use Bluetooth)