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neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:33 PM

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I have quite a few automations that are not starting on time at all. Everything was working fine a few days ago and suddenly it's acting up. There are others that aren't even starting as in no trace where it even tried to run This is one example

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I checked time in HA and I'm not seeing an issue there.

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:36 PM

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How do you run HA? In a VM?

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:36 PM

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It only seems to be automations that use a trigger of time

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Yes

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:37 PM

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Time sync is the cause

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You need to disable the VM's time sync to the guest

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:37 PM

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How did it even get off. And how would I go about doing that lol

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:38 PM

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Done in the VM software, whatever that is

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:38 PM

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Ok. For me vm was a set and forget when doing ha

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:39 PM

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VMWare?

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VBox?

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:39 PM

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Oracle

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Not at the pc atm

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:39 PM

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VBox then

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Google will have the answer

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virtualbox disable time sync

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:41 PM

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Ok ty. I did notice this issue started when a bad firmware from nvidia was causing high cpu usage with ique. Rolled back and that's when I noticed all of this. Not sure how that would cause that

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:42 PM

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The problem is that the host messes with the guest's idea of time

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That breaks timers in code, and a lot of other things

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:43 PM

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Thank you for the info. Never would have guessed it was the vm

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:44 PM

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It's a "well known" problem, for the last 15+ years

neon narwhal Oct 30, 2024, 12:45 PM

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Strange it's only appearing now

solemn forge Oct 30, 2024, 12:45 PM

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I get why it's enabled by default, but it causes more problems than it solves

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