Open Time Appliance — initial timebeat.yml configuration
Minimum viable grandmaster config, oscillator selection, SFP precision, PTP serving and verification.
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The Open Time Appliance runs the same Timebeat Agent and the same timebeat_opentimecard protocol as the PCIe Open TimeCard — the chassis is a packaged turnkey unit but the configuration surface is identical. The differences are oscillator choice and the typical serving pattern (most OTAs are configured as multicast PTP servers).
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Software setup
The Timebeat software configuration is the same across all TimeBeat hardware. See the Timebeat software guides →