Simple API not updating HS

[lhfarm]

Greig suggested that I only push data to HS when the values I'm collecting change. That is instead of sending the temperature on every loop, I check to see if the value has changed. If so, I send the data. This keeps the Arduino from flooding HS and would, I suspect, be more effective than polling.

Barry

[petez69]

Greig suggested that I only push data to HS when the values I'm collecting change. That is instead of sending the temperature on every loop, I check to see if the value has changed. If so, I send the data. This keeps the Arduino from flooding HS and would, I suspect, be more effective than polling.

Barry

Barry

That is DEFINATELY how I would do it... I came unstuck years ago doing the same thing ie: updating HS on every loop until I found out what I was doing was flooding the plugin.

Pete

[Bugman1400]

As an alternative, are there any scripts that show how to poll every 15 seconds from HS followed by receiving the data from the Arduino?

[petez69]

As an alternative, are there any scripts that show how to poll every 15 seconds from HS followed by receiving the data from the Arduino?

Not with the Arduino plugin that I am aware of.

The only other way is to setup a Mosquitto mqtt Broker, write up some mqtt code for the Arduino and have mcsmqtt request a status from the arduino. This to me seems overly complicated....

By far the best way would be is study arduino code (lots of examples) and only let it drop into the update HS loop when a value changes....

Good luck..Pete