scMerlin scMerlin 2.5.2 - Service and script control menu for Asuswrt-Merlin, April 22, 2024

[Viktor Jaep]

I believe this is a bad idea. Who toggles it back? And if done later on, NTP may never sync. That‘s what I saw when I tested this a few months ago.

Who toggles the toggles... that's really the question.

 

[Martinski]

I believe this is a bad idea. Who toggles it back? And if done later on, NTP may never sync. That‘s what I saw when I tested this a few months ago.

My understanding is the user is asking for a menu option to manually enable/disable the "NTP Ready" check performed by the add-on during startup. So if the user disables this check, it would be the user's responsibility to enable it back at some later point. I'm guessing the idea is to disable the check momentarily while troubleshooting the WAN connection, and then enable it once the issue has been resolved, and then reboot the router. Without an established WAN connection, there's not much the user can do anyway, so the "NTP Ready" check is moot under such conditions.

Perhaps the poster can elaborate on what he's trying to do since there might be other ways to accomplish what he wants to do.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Who toggles the toggles... that's really the question.

Well…

 

[RandomUser777]

My understanding is the user is asking for a menu option to manually enable/disable the "NTP Ready" check performed by the add-on during startup. So if the user disables this check, it would be the user's responsibility to enable it back at some later point. I'm guessing the idea is to disable the check momentarily while troubleshooting the WAN connection, and then enable it once the issue has been resolved, and then reboot the router. Without an established WAN connection, there's not much the user can do anyway, so the "NTP Ready" check is moot under such conditions.

Perhaps the poster can elaborate on what he's trying to do since there might be other ways to accomplish what he wants to do.

Just my 2 cents.

@Martinski is spot on for all accounts. My fault if I do not enable it; I have some unique occasions/use cases when wan detection may fail (or not even be available) during initial router restart yet I still desire to have the SCMerlin gui available, without waiting 10 minutes. I have manually commented out the subroutine for a while now, with no ill effects overall or even with NTP specifically. Once the WAN connection goes live, the NTP watchdog does what it is supposed to do.

It would just be nice to have a menu option so that checking for updates does not give a false update needed.

 

[Makaveli]

I also ran into that issue where I couldn't upgrade it from 2.4.0 to 2.5.2 but saw the first couple post to uninstall and reinstall and good now.