agmlego / pyURtimehack

A hacky way to keep the time updated on a Universal Robot

pyURtimehack

Because Universal Robots do not (currently) support NTP or any other time-sync system despite being based on Debian, this project exists.

All it does is ssh into the robot and set the time based on the host PC, and adds a corresponding note of the action to the UR message log.

Requirements

A PC that is synced to a timeserver (or not, I guess? You do you) and has network access to one or more Universal Robots.

Usage

The Easy Way

1. Run pyurtimehack.py
2. Follow the prompts to add one or more robots to the config file
3. Set up a scheduled task on the host to run the script on a regular basis
4. Done!

The Slightly Harder Way

1. Create a config file by hand in your local app config directory (AppData on Windows, probably .config on Linux):

[DEFAULT]
user = root
password = easybot
dashboard_port = 29999
ssh_port = 22
urtz = Europe/Copenhagen
localtz = <YOUR LOCAL IANA TIMEZONE>

[<A ROBOT ENTRY>]
address = <ROBOT IP ADDRESS>

2. Follow (#the-easy-way)