Closed bplimley closed 7 years ago
The reason why we didn't use the send time is because
Hi Nav,
The alternative is that anytime the WiFi is out, no data gets posted. Joey, Ali and I have discussed this and we think reliability is important.
The pi's do use NTP. In the December firmware update, they connect to NTP servers in pool.ntp.org.
This capability is merged into master
but it is a non-default option right now. I want to load-test it more before making it the default behavior
The message should include timestamps of the measurement interval, and the server should use these timestamps rather than the time of receiving the message.
This is one prerequisite for enabling WiFi, which may have intermittent connectivity.