Are you setting up ntp to get the date/time from your gps or just the indi drivers?

I setup a usb gps dongle recently (just because..) and configured ntp to get the time from gpsd by the shared memory driver. I also had the indi gpsd configured. Not sure if I really needed both for time but at least ntp would configure the system before I even got round to getting indi going.

In the end I decided that as my setup is static and my ipad feeds it gps and my internet connection time plus the cheap dongle I got didn’t lock onto the satellites very quickly, that there was no point in using it. ( I had my play time and decided the extra stress wasn’t worth it)

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