# How to add a monitoring station to the pool project? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/how-to-add-a-monitoring-station-to-the-pool-project/1478 "2019-10-23T23:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![electronicslover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/electronicslover/32/283_2.png) [@electronicslover](https://community.ntppool.org/u/electronicslover)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/how-to-add-a-monitoring-station-to-the-pool-project/1478/1 "2019-10-23T23:22:26Z")
Hello there, I’m here to ask about monitoring stations… I have a stratum 1 timeserver and a stratum 2 timeserver. The first one is synced to UTC(LRTE) timescale by 1 PPS and we’ve removed the on-board crystal oscillator of a tinkerboard and replaced it with a synthesized signal that comes from the timescale too. The second one is my desk running as stratum 2, one i5 that is synced to the stratum 1 (minpoll and maxpoll of chrony set to zero, requesting time every second). The things that i’m here to ask are: 1 - How one of this can be a monitoring station for south america? It is viable? I know the pool need more monitoring stations, or not? 2 - How to do this if this is a good thing to do? Luiz =D ---
**Author:** ![alica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/alica/32/337_2.png) [@alica](https://community.ntppool.org/u/alica)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/how-to-add-a-monitoring-station-to-the-pool-project/1478/2 "2019-10-24T08:02:01Z")
Recruited before, but current progress unknown. > [@Additional monitoring servers (help wanted)](https://community.ntppool.org/t/additional-monitoring-servers-help-wanted/1010): > > Hi server folks, I’m closer to ready to adding more monitoring systems to the Pool. Depending on how many we have an early iteration would be to just have the system choose the closer 1-3 monitoring servers to monitor your server; later operators could “choose their own” and eventually maybe the computer can help pick in a smarter way. I’m unconvinced how this will improve the quality of the pool service, but I don’t think it will make it worse and it might increase the available capacity. It… ---
**Author:** ![electronicslover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/electronicslover/32/283_2.png) [@electronicslover](https://community.ntppool.org/u/electronicslover)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/how-to-add-a-monitoring-station-to-the-pool-project/1478/3 "2019-10-24T19:45:09Z")
So, for now we can’t do that? Right? Thank you for reply ---
**Author:** ![electronicslover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.ntppool.org/electronicslover/32/283_2.png) [@electronicslover](https://community.ntppool.org/u/electronicslover)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/how-to-add-a-monitoring-station-to-the-pool-project/1478/4 "2020-01-17T16:51:17Z")
Any news about that? I think will be really good to add one monitor station in Brazil (I’m running servers in the university and they all are getting their signals from UTC(LRTE) timescale. I have a computer that i’ve removed the crystal oscillator and inputs a 24 MHz signal for the base clock that is already done for the work, but now i have a doubt: is better to try this (monitor station -\> the computer has 7th generation I5 7400 CPU and 8 GB RAM) or another high performance chrony stratum 1 server? These are the two servers that i mention: [http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer001632](http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer001632) [http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer001376](http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer001376)