[Issue]: Rate limit drops after using onecta app

[sisco1983]

Dear All,

for your information i've just sent the below mail to Daikin Developer support.
it seems something connected to Onecta App server,
I noticed other users had similar issues in the past but the case were all closed.
See attached huge rate limit drop.
Is this something known? i really doubt this is related to any HA automation since this big drop is always happeninh after i'm noticing that onecta app is not reacting as it should.

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Dear Support,

i'm facing really often an issue like attached screenshot from home Assistant.

I have noted that if i'm modifying daikin temperature set point by using the Onecta app really often i've the feeling that onecta is not reacting and not sending the right command to the device.
And in fact, after noticing this lag on the onecta app i then can see the rate limit dropping heavily in home assistant. It is like if oncecta app is generating a lot of disturbances and no really reacting.

The device is 1 meter from the Wifi rooter.
Please see the picture of rate limit trend in the last two days,
The problem i'm facing is not only the rate limit but also that i need to set the new temperature several times on onecta before having it registered.
attached also internal unit label

Thank you for your assistance.

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[jwillemsen]

You can enable the debug logging of this integration (see readme) to check if there is nothing in HA that causes this drop in remaining calls.

[sisco1983]

This is what i've obtained after restarting but I suppose i need to keep debug recording on and see tomorrow what will happen once i've the rate limit again restored. Please guide me if i need to do something different.

Please note that following lines are not enabled in my editor, do i need to enable them ? Thank you

#logger:
#  logs:
#    custom_components.daikin_onecta: debug
#    homeassistant.helpers.config_entry_oauth2_flow: debug

2024-11-26 11:09:49.298 WARNING (SyncWorker_0) [homeassistant.loader] We found a custom integration daikin_onecta which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you experience issues with Home Assistant
2024-11-26 11:10:40.919 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.daikin_api] Initialing Daikin Onecta API...
2024-11-26 11:10:40.920 INFO (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.daikin_api] Daikin Onecta API initialized.
2024-11-26 11:10:41.389 INFO (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.coordinator] Daikin coordinator initialized with 0:30:00 interval.
2024-11-26 11:10:41.394 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.coordinator] Daikin coordinator start _async_update_data.
2024-11-26 11:10:41.394 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.daikin_api] BEARER REQUEST URL: https://api.onecta.daikineurope.com/v1/gateway-devices
2024-11-26 11:10:41.395 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.daikin_api] BEARER TYPE GET JSON: None
2024-11-26 11:10:41.866 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.daikin_api] BEARER RESPONSE CODE: 429 LIMIT: {'minute': 20, 'day': 200, 'remaining_minutes': 19, 'remaining_day': 0, 'retry_after': 144367, 'ratelimit_reset': 144367}
2024-11-26 11:10:41.867 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.coordinator] Daikin coordinator finished _async_update_data, interval 1 day, 16:07:07.
2024-11-26 11:10:41.867 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.daikin_onecta.coordinator] Finished fetching daikin_onecta data in 0.473 seconds (success: True)

[jwillemsen]

You could enable debug for daikin_onecta, but it seems there is already basic logging, just run it for some time and see what is reported

[sisco1983]

i've enabled the logger in the integration

[jwillemsen]

Ok, that does the same as far as I know. Please log for some time and attach the log here as plain txt file

[sisco1983]

Ok, logger is recording and as usual in the last days i had to restart home assistant to have the integration working again after i reached the rate limit.
while logger is recording i would like to show this interesting trand noticed some days ago. At noon i moved the set temparture from 21 to 22 °C directly on Onecta official App since i was away from home.
You can see a big drop at that time.
i've the feeling there is something wrong from Daikin server time as in these days is really slow in responding .

[jwillemsen]

Please attach the log from the moment you see a drop again, that will tell which commands HA send to Daikin

[sisco1983]

Ciao,
just before 9:00 i moved the set temperuture on Diakin Onecta Android App from 21 to 16. Today the App reacted immediately and i didn't had to close and restart the app to have the new temperature properly set.
in HA , you can see a drop that is not same as yesterday (up to zero in one shot) but still high, 8 units instead of 2 i was expecting. below you can find trend and log file

Today Drop:

Log:

home-assistant_daikin_onecta_2024-11-27T09-00-27.242Z.log

[jwillemsen]

Ok, looks HA does nothing in that time to Daikin, let us know how Daikin responds

[sisco1983]

Sure, i will follow up if there will be any reply.
in the meantime at 10:00 i had to move again the set point. and i moved it again with Official app. this time a huge decrease occurred (just for your info so you can see that the rate reduction is really random)
I will try to move the set temparute with Alexa and or HA... i've the feelgin that set point is much more responding faster with alexa rather than Daikin official onecta APP ( :-( ) .

And here the last log
home-assistant_daikin_onecta_2024-11-27T10-13-18.176Z.log

[sisco1983]

OH they just replied :-)

But i really do not know why this should work and i'm really scared as in the past i had a lot of issues in having Onecta HA integration working :-( .. what do you think about below? i was still using an ID and credential installed several months ago .

QUOTE

Hey Francesco,

We’ve investigated your case and we’re indeed seeing a conflict between your use of the Onecta app and home assistant, this shouldn’t happen.

To fix the situation , we can propose the following

Remove your current Home assistant configuration
On the developer portal , create an application
Configure Home assistant integration with the new application credentials ( don’t use the client_id : XXX (removed by me for privacy) )

This should resolve the problem for you.

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[jwillemsen]

I would recommend to follow the Daikin suggestion, as you said, there is a huge drop in the remaining day around 10AM, the HA integration isn't doing anything

[sisco1983]

ok, now created the APP in daikin portal and re.installed onecta integration , the integration seems working but after adding the integration in HA I was not asked to insert any credential, i was directly adressed to Daikin developper portal and maybe automatically recognized as maybe my new credentials were still open in the web page.§
Definitly this is a totally different procedure than what i did some months ago and now i've the APP created in daikin develop. portal and this app was not existing before, so most probably this was the issue. now crossing my finger.