GPSD source for Chrony

I’m trying to modify chrony.conf to add a gps source server from GPSD

driftfile /var/lib/chrony/drift

allow

# set larger delay to allow the NMEA source to overlap with
# the other sources and avoid the falseticker status
refclock SHM 0 refid GPS precision 1e-1 offset 0.9999 delay 0.2
refclock SOCK /var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock refid PPS

The only config way I read about was to modify the config.json file.

Heres where I was pulling the setup from
http://www.catb.org/gpsd/gpsd-time-service-howto.html#_feeding_chrony_from_gpsd

Hi,

At the moment, there is no way to configure chrony.conf via config.json.

As a workaround, you can ssh into the host OS, mount the os as read-write using mount -o remount,rw / and edit chrony.conf.
Note that these changes won’t persist after a HUP.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
ZubairLK

Thank @zubairlk for the tip. I was able to edit the file. Didn’t get it to work but Chrony sees the entries when checking service status sync, I guess now it is a matter of figuring out the correct Chrony config entries.

Any possible roadmap for an api endpoint to edit the conf file?

Hey @seesoe,

We have plans to support a higher level declarative configuration format for balenaOS, and while we are currently working on it, its hard to say when this will be available to use in production, but stay tuned!

Is there any update on this? We also would like to have a GPS time reference