Climate entity increases dutycycle in Raspberrymatic

Hello everybody,

I am using home assistant with the latest stable version and the raspberrymatic plugin with several hmIP devices. I use the entity “climate” to get access to the hmIP thermostat. This functionality works as expected so there is no major problem at all. But I observed that when I add 6 climate entity to a dashboard the duty cycle increases by 3%. I have checked this behaviour several times by switching on and off the entity, therefore I am be sure to reproduce this behaviour.

My question is: Is this a normal behaviour or is there another/better way of integrating a homematic thermostat in homeassistant?

Expectation: In a normal case I would expect that the Data in this example the actual temperature is already known and there is no need of an additional transfer. I know that the hmIP devices send events when there is a change or when a previous command requesting something has been send. Therefore I would expect that the climate entity should not send any additional command to the hmIP device itself.

Any comments or suggestions for this behaviour?

Thanks Markus

This is normal.
The rules for using the frequency spectrum that Homematic IP uses is that you are only allow to send a certain amount of data each hour, which is what the duty cycle indicate.
More devices means more data sent, which means higher duty cycle.