jlv
August 26, 2020, 4:29pm
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csteele:
The Third is to deploy an Virtual Device that updates the Hub from some LAN time source.
It would need to be from some always-On computer or equiv (NAS maybe) that can be an NTP source.
You copy/paste the driver into the Hub and then create a virtual driver that uses the Driver. Fill in the blanks on the Device Info page and.
Does this virtual device exist? I already have a local NTP server on my network and would love the hub to use it. My DHCP server does include the NTP service address in configuration it passes out, but I notice my hub's clock seems to drift so I'm assuming it's not using it.
UPDATE: I found this:
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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