Get Client info from Chrony - Console text ouput to msg.payload
Simple flow to get console output from a Chrony time server, running on same host as node-red, and output connected clients as a payload object.
As a bit of a learning exercise I decided to write a flow to check state of my Chrony time server.
After much trial and error I have taken the output of an exec node, split on new lines, removed spaces and managed to create an object as above. This is all done in the one function node.
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