Use network time protocol on ciro to get timestamp?

[speleato]

Hello Mark,

Here is the relevant section of ni-rt.ini from one of the controllers I was using.

[TIME SYNC]
source.rtc.enable=True
source.sntp.address=169.254.26.110
source.sntp.enable=true
source.sntp.interval=60
source.sntp.log=false
source.sntp.port=123
source.sntp.verbose=true
source_priority=sntp;rtc;

Were you able to hook up the console to the cRIO to see if it is able to connect to the SNTP server?

Sebastian

[MarkLee]

Hi,

Yes I finally made myself a null modem cable last night and using the console output have now got the cRIOs time synch working

The problems were a combination of getting the rt-in file edits in the wrong format (I stripped out the carriage returns & other white space as I thought RT ini files needed that) - and I couldn't reach an internet-based time server when I tried as I didn't have the internet router's Gateway address setup in the cRIO config.

I'm using the time server from Meinberg on my local PC (as suggested) and it's working really well.

Thanks for all your patience and tips!!!

Best wishes,

Mark

[rex1030]

Glad to here you solved it! Have you been able to determine how synchronized you are?