Re: RPI4 + ntpdate + unbound

From: Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org>
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:55:11 UTC

> On Jul 3, 2022, at 10:51 AM, John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 10:49:33PM -1000, David Cornejo wrote:
>> I always hated this about the RPIs - I put a DS3231 on mine and the
>> problem disappears. ...
> 
>  Yeah.  Not sure where Eben would cram it (much less the battery), but
> one of these days his form factor needs to expand a bit.  But with what
> I do with the RPI4 it runs hot, so I've got a good passive case, but
> this one hides the GPIO pins entirely and the active-cooling one I'm
> looking at is a big chunk of aluminum + fans, which means some pretty
> significant risers/headers to get it to clear the heatsink and some
> contention with the PWR/GRD pins to power the fan.
> 
>  Haven't dug into what RTC driver FreeBSD may support to see where I
> can stick the RTC.  I do want one, just not seeing options that jump out
> at me.

A USB based GPS/GNSS dongle can be had for about $10. It will use up
one USB port + more power + its antenna needs to be near a window but
this might be the easiest way to get realtime on a Pi with no exposed
GPIO pins. You may even be able to run as a stratum-1 NTP server!