Vera not getting NTP Time

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#21

Hi Futzle - thanks for all your help.

Tonight I successfully SSH’d into Vera using terminal - and then I ran the commands you gave me and got instant success. The clock jumped to the correct time.

For anyone who wants to do this - I used the SSH instructions here: http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Logon_Vera_SSH

And used this technique to find out the SSH password: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,7110.msg45228.html#msg45228

I was wondering if you could explain - now that I have installed NTP on vera - does this mean that even if vera looses power and has to re-start - she will keep time?! How does NTP work?

Cheers.

#22

Hi mrsdoubtfire,

Glad you got it working. And thanks too for documenting what you did to help others in your same situation.

The NTP client will just sit silently in the background. It should query time servers every so often and bump your clock to correct it, even if your Vera’s internal clock has a bit of drift. It should also start automatically when Vera boots. (I can’t say so categorically because I normally use a different NTP program.)

#23

Now I have a question for MCV…

Given how vitally important it is for a Vera to have the correct time, don’t you think that it would be wise to have both NTP and rdate enabled, by default? Especially because rdate is a bit of an unknown, and ISPs might block its port out of ignorance.

I know you are just taking the OpenWrt default, but a mere router doesn’t need the correct time as desperately as MiOS does, so I’m not convinced that it’s a valid default to inherit.

#24

Hi,
I want to say that the solution below works. ;D Me happy.

[quote=“mrsdoubtfire, post:21, topic:170558”]Hi Futzle - thanks for all your help.

Tonight I successfully SSH’d into Vera using terminal - and then I ran the commands you gave me and got instant success. The clock jumped to the correct time.

For anyone who wants to do this - I used the SSH instructions here: http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Logon_Vera_SSH

And used this technique to find out the SSH password: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,7110.msg45228.html#msg45228

I was wondering if you could explain - now that I have installed NTP on vera - does this mean that even if vera looses power and has to re-start - she will keep time?! How does NTP work?

Cheers.[/quote]

#25

Another happy newbie, so thanks to the users here!

I will also say that as a new user, this is a lot to have to go through to have my Vera tell time. It was only off by about 12 minutes…

[quote=“mrsdoubtfire, post:21, topic:170558”]Hi Futzle - thanks for all your help.

Tonight I successfully SSH’d into Vera using terminal - and then I ran the commands you gave me and got instant success. The clock jumped to the correct time.

For anyone who wants to do this - I used the SSH instructions here: http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Logon_Vera_SSH

And used this technique to find out the SSH password: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,7110.msg45228.html#msg45228

I was wondering if you could explain - now that I have installed NTP on vera - does this mean that even if vera looses power and has to re-start - she will keep time?! How does NTP work?

Cheers.[/quote]