Time Sync¶

The Open Edge Device Kit publishes a message when the Insights Hub clock differs from the device clock. The clock skew is published in the diff field of the topic agentruntime/monitoring/clockskew. It holds the time difference in seconds represented by an integer which is acquired using the following formula:

serverTime [s] - deviceTime [s]

This means for example, that if diff is -10, the device clock must be turned back by 10 seconds.

Synchronizing Device Clock and Insights Hub Clock¶

1. Establish a connection to the MQTT broker where <mqtt_host> is the host name and <mqtt_port> is the port:

   String broker = String.format("tcp://%s:%d", <mqtt_host>, <mqtt_port>);
   MqttClient mqttClient = new MqttClient(broker, "MQTTClientID");
   mqttClient.connect();
   

2. Subscribe to the respective topic.

   mqttClient.subscribe("agentruntime/monitoring/clockskew", mqttMessageListener);
   

3. Handle the message and generate a log message. Update the device time (not shown below).

   @Override
   public void messageArrived(String topic, MqttMessage message) {
       LOG.info("MQTT message arrived: {} --> {}", topic, message.toString());
   }
   

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