Climate entity increases dutycycle in Raspberrymatic

Third party integrations
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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

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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.