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I don't see ESP8266 mentioned here: Overview: https://hackaday.com/2021/07/25/portable-gps-time-server-powered-by-the-esp8266/ https://hackaday.com/2021/07/25

by adolph 5y ago

I don't see ESP8266 mentioned here: Overview: https://hackaday.com/2021/07/25/portable-gps-time-server-powered-by-the-esp8266/ https://hackaday.com/2021/07/25/portable-gps-time-server-pow... Developer story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-maker-tale-stratum-1-time-server-built-from-scratch-monteiro/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-maker-tale-stratum-1-time... Repo: https://github.com/Montecri/GPSTimeServer https://github.com/Montecri/GPSTimeServer A simpler version from the comments: https://enginemonitor.blogspot.com/2020/09/gps-module.html?m=1 https://enginemonitor.blogspot.com/2020/09/gps-module.html?m...

jlgaddis 5y ago
Probably because an ESP8266 isn't anywhere close enough to "real-time" to be of any benefit. Why bother getting a nanosecond-level accurate time signal if you're going to feed it to an ESP8266 to distribute over Wi-Fi (or, in other words, reducing your accuracy to ~10 milliseconds or so)?