First off great work on the plugin - I've bought a few of your plugins and they work great, and I'd like to buy this one.
I'm using a 3rd party iPad interface (Commandfusion), and really having a hard time with the 4 minute polling delay. If you turn the AC off you don't know if the AC is really off for up to 4 minutes. I looked at the Ecobee API docs and you can query it for free up to 85,000 requests per month which works out to twice per minute. Why did you choose 4 minutes (just curious).
Is there anyway to force a poll? I'd like to setup events that will poll the API after I make a change in the UI. that way if I change the temperature threshold I know for sure the AC or heat is turning off and I don't have to wait 4 minutes to double check.
If there isn't a way to force a poll, has anyone used virtual devices (thats what i'm now trying) or other ways to get around this (show a "Transitioning State or something similar?) It's really a hugely limiting factor of this plugin that is making me bummed out I got rid of my Trane thermostat.
Thanks,
Jim
I'm using a 3rd party iPad interface (Commandfusion), and really having a hard time with the 4 minute polling delay. If you turn the AC off you don't know if the AC is really off for up to 4 minutes. I looked at the Ecobee API docs and you can query it for free up to 85,000 requests per month which works out to twice per minute. Why did you choose 4 minutes (just curious).
Is there anyway to force a poll? I'd like to setup events that will poll the API after I make a change in the UI. that way if I change the temperature threshold I know for sure the AC or heat is turning off and I don't have to wait 4 minutes to double check.
If there isn't a way to force a poll, has anyone used virtual devices (thats what i'm now trying) or other ways to get around this (show a "Transitioning State or something similar?) It's really a hugely limiting factor of this plugin that is making me bummed out I got rid of my Trane thermostat.
Thanks,
Jim
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