diff --git a/layers/meta-balena-5x-owa/recipes-core/pmsrv/files/do_not_set_hostname.patch b/layers/meta-balena-5x-owa/recipes-core/pmsrv/files/do_not_set_hostname.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3d1158aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/meta-balena-5x-owa/recipes-core/pmsrv/files/do_not_set_hostname.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: 1.0.27-r0/pmsrv.json
+===================================================================
+--- 1.0.27-r0.orig/pmsrv.json
++++ 1.0.27-r0/pmsrv.json
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ {
+     "name": "pmsrv",
+     "reset_lines": 20,
+-    "set_hostname": 1,
++    "set_hostname": 0,
+     "set_default": 1,
+     "set_time": 0,
+     "secure_time": 1,
diff --git a/layers/meta-balena-5x-owa/recipes-core/pmsrv/pmsrv_%.bbappend b/layers/meta-balena-5x-owa/recipes-core/pmsrv/pmsrv_%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8f344f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/meta-balena-5x-owa/recipes-core/pmsrv/pmsrv_%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:append := ":${THISDIR}/files"
+
+SRC_URI:append = " file://do_not_set_hostname.patch"