[atlas]FYI probe problems after power failure

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Today I had a power failure, and luckily everything came back up when I
fixed it. However, a while later, I wondered if the probe had too, and
it had not. The status page said it was up, but it hadn't reported data
for about 6 hours (grey graphs).

I assume I hit one of the problems in the FAQ:

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Technical background: the probe tries to get current time indication
using NTP upon booting, which sometimes fails. This causes the probe to
think the curent date is November 1999, which confuses it a lot; it
doesn't register properly or it sends measurement data for the twentieth
century which is immediately discarded by the system. We plan to
convince the probe to insist on vaild NTP or acquire some other time
indication. The fix will be deployed in a firmware update.
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Since the probe boots a lot faster than my gateway, I guess it never
retried NTP. Powercycle fixed it indeed.

So the lesson here is (at least until there is an update that retries
ntpdate, or something), if the machine that provides your Internet
connection takes a while to boot up, and they are both powered on at the
same time, you may need to powercycle your probe.

Jelte
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