Polling interval in Home Assistant

[mskorge]

Hi, and thanks for a great HA module!
Lately in Sweden Verisure has started blocking people polling faster than every 30 minutes. They are sending an email telling people they will remain blocked until the polling rate is lowered.
I would love to see polling interval as an optional configuration setting so I can set it lower myself instead of having to modify the code.

Keep up the good work!

[xibriz]

Interesting... I wounder if they will do this in Norway also. I'm so close to just dropping Verisure because I think they are quite expensive. If they block me that will be the last drop :)

Edit: Just to mention it, in my setup I poll the alarm state every 5 minutes and the climate every 6 hours because they only update temp and humid every 6 hours.

[krambriw]

I use this python module since long and my understanding is that you can decide yourself the polling interval if you write a small python script using it.
But, ouch, if we get blocked, what to do? 30 minutes makes it useless. So far I have not received any email yet, been polling every 15 second since the beginning (on the other hand I informed them when I started, at that time had my own similar python solution using web scraping before switching to Per's module)
I use this interface for integration with my HA system based on Node-RED. It is clear that Verisure is moving their focus towards home automation in combination with home alarm systems. This makes sense I think but I personally would like to keep my HA system separated. Currently I use the 3 arm states ('ARMED_HOME', 'ARMED_AWAY', 'DISARMED') and smartplug part. It would be really bad if all this leads in a way that you have to overcome by building a HW interface based on 2 smartplugs + some I/O supported by the HA system just to get the arm state into the same.
Best would be if Verisure could provide a public api but I guess this will not happen considering their increasing interest in HA by themselves

All this leads me to think about another issue listed, Push messages #57. Has anyone looked into this further? I read about the emulator idea. One idea could be to run Android on a dedicated RPi, having the Verisure app installed. But then, I would think best would be to interface with an MQTT broker in someway to publish state changes & accept commands from the HA system

Any ideas?

[krambriw]

Provided using Android, could this be interesting for interfacing with python to be able to capture notifications???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jwp1PTvECI

[xibriz]

Provided using Android, could this be interesting for interfacing with python to be able to capture notifications???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jwp1PTvECI

I can only see the possibility to send notifications using the plyer framework. I don't know if Android offer other apps to 'listen to' notifications from other apps. But that would need to be investigated if you want to capture anything on the OS level instead from the API.

[persandstrom]

I have merged a PR into HA.
home-assistant/home-assistant.io#6516
Next release will have a setting for polling rate

[mskorge]

Thanks a lot for spending some time on this! Will help us out for sure...

[krambriw]

"I don't know if Android offer other apps to 'listen to' notifications from other apps"
Maybe is possible:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26731306/android-is-it-possible-to-get-other-apps-notification-info