Makes sense!
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at some of these topics, but people have noticed in the past the hub appears to be hard-coded to check an NTP server in the cloud. There’s a couple ways to work around that though.
I have already contacted support on this but wanted to put the issue out there for everyone.
Using my router I have been watching what services the Hubitat hub connects to. What sticks out is the high amount requests the hub is making to NTP services. Over 16MB in twenty four hours is ridiculously high. Looking at it in real time it appears the hub is calling NTP every few seconds. The hub time is correct and otherwise functioning normally. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, an…
All,
with the just release Hubitat version (2.1.5) there is a new function to set the Hub time via an API call.
Here is a driver that allows you to specify a local NTP server to retrieve the date/time from and it will update the Hub accordingly.
Right now, the driver does NOT support SNTP, only plain old NTP, however. It checks the time on boot and every X minutes (configurable).
The configuration should be pretty self-explanatory but I am happy to elaborate if anyone has questions.
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