when I was poking at the protocol (MQTT plaintext, including the auth) given the esp32 doesn't have a RTC onboard, they would send MQTT packets with the current

when I was poking at the protocol (MQTT plaintext, including the auth) given the esp32 doesn't have a RTC onboard, they would send MQTT packets with the current time and I suspect that they trigger off of those time packets rather then the software time source on the esp32.