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isomorphictoday at 4:28 AM2 repliesview on HN

Floridian here. WWVB has never worked for me indoors (never tried outdoors). I've tried multiple vendors' clocks in multiple houses (wood frame and concrete). I assume the coverage is fine outdoors or with a sufficiently large antenna, but none of the clocks I've seen even have a mechanism to connect such an antenna. I could hack one, but then it would probably stop being cheap and reliable.

I'd love to buy an off-the-shelf WiFi+NTP clock, but everything I've seen is very expensive, intended for commercial timing applications or synchronizing clocks across a campus.


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js2today at 5:18 AM

Ditto in NC. I got this WiFi/NTP clock a couple years ago. Works great if you want an analog clock:

https://www.amazon.com/OCEST-Wall-Clock-12Inch-Auto/dp/B0DJS...

MengerSpongetoday at 5:13 AM

You can spoof the wireless signal if you don't get coverage. There are surely more and better Android options, but I used Clock Wave to set a clock from Germany back in the US.

https://cw.rzapps.com/

It's really clever! It uses the speaker as the low frequency transmitter. It doesn't sound right, but it only needs the coil to radiate EM waves.