I made a thing: GPS/PPS clock source for ntpd
This is just a ‘pointer’ post.
All the details are in the kquinsland/yet-another-gps-pps-opnsense repo on github.
For the longest time, I had a dedicated raspberry pi with a GPS module acting as the ntp server for my home network. I chose to use a dedicated host for this because my router - at the time - did not have a serial port that I could leverage.
Recently, the miroSD card on the ntp pi died and I decided to leverage the serial port in my current router rather than re-build the operating system on the ntp host.
It didn’t take that much time to but together a bare-bones schematic in KiCad. One LCSC order, one mouser order and about a week later, I had a basic RS232 <-> TTL converter for use with a cheap GPS module
After a bit more testing, I was convinced I hadn’t made any egregious mistakes and the new module didn’t pose a significant threat/risk to my production router.
