Optional Network Time servers
The panel can now take its time from Network Time (SNTP) servers, as a second source next to Home Assistant. These only need Wi-Fi, so after a power loss the clock is shown as soon as the panel is on the network, without waiting for Home Assistant, and time-based customizations (such as scheduled relays) work without it.
This is optional and disabled by default. To enable it, set up to 3 servers, separated by ;. A Network Time server in your network (many routers provide one) keeps the time requests local:
substitutions:
sntp_servers: "192.168.0.1;0.pool.ntp.org;1.pool.ntp.org"Public servers are on the internet: the requests are small NTP packets (UDP port 123) containing only timestamps, and no device identifiers or other data are sent. See SNTP (time) server and Network for details and firewall rules.
If you previously changed time_provider to platform: sntp, it keeps working, but the panel no longer takes its time from Home Assistant. Prefer replacing it with sntp_servers, and do not use both, as the build fails.
Faster start-up when the display is ready before Home Assistant
When the display was ready before Home Assistant connected, the request for the panel settings was lost, and the panel only got its settings with the retry about 30 seconds later. The panel now repeats that request as soon as Home Assistant connects, so it reaches the wake-up page about 30 seconds sooner in this case. Panels where Home Assistant connects first start as before.
The Invalid variable name warning that could appear in the log when the panel leaves the boot page is also fixed.
Thanks to @Bascht74 for this contribution.
Related to #615
What's Changed
New Features
- feat: Add SNTP as a second time source by @panel-easy-assistant[bot] in #621
Other Changes
- fix: Skip the 30 s wait for the settings when the display is ready before the API by @Bascht74 in #620
- feat: Add an optional SNTP time source and speed up the boot settings by @edwardtfn in #635
Full Changelog: v2026.11.4...v2026.11.5