Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How do I capture of the time of USRP N210 samples with host computer system time?

[LD Zhang]

Great! Thanks. I tried to import time and it works. Now I just have to see
if this is sufficient for my sample gather timing or I still have to get the
timestamp of the first sample using metadata and such.

LD

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus D. Leech [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 4:15 PM
To: LD Zhang; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How do I capture of the time of USRP N210
samples with host computer system time?

On 01/04/2013 07:03 PM, LD Zhang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried the following command in python:
>
>> python:
>> usrp_source.set_time_now(uhd.time_spec_t(time.time())
>>
> It doesn't seem to work. Looks like the "time.time()" is wrong? Looked 
> up an earlier example:
>
> set_time_now(uhd::time_spec_t(0.0), 0)
>
> The syntax looks different. But this may be doing something different 
> from my intention which is to sync the USRP time to the host system 
> time. I am still searching for the right syntax for this command. Any 
> help is appreciated.
>
> LD
>
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You'll have to put an:

import time

In your python



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