I am trying to use an arduino with home assistant to monitor door and other sensors. The default scan is 30 seconds. This is far too slow to pick up door opening closing, motion sensors, etc. I tried to change the scan interval under the arduino platform using scan_interval: 1. This not only did not speed up the interval it seemed to disable the sensors all together. They would show up in the frontend, but would never update. Are the arduino sensors able to be changed?
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Did you find a solution?
Best solution would be to have the arduino report to MQTT topic on status change, that way it’s realtime.
Is it really that fast? If so I think im gonna buy an esp8266
I have a nodemcu tied to reed switches on my doors, it’s instant updating via MQTT.
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I’m using ESPEasy to do this in case you wonder in the future.
My plan is to use MQTT like the others. I was put on hold as construction completed. Hope to get back on this over the winter. Seems like MQTT will be the way to go as soon as I can figure out how to set it all up.
Hi!
Did you ever managed to solve this without MQTT and a WiFi enabled arduino?