I’d like to know how the TP Link switch status gets updated in Home Assistant. I can switch the switch using TP’s app and up to 30 seconds later Home Assistant updates.
I’ve looked in the tplink.py and I can’t see any kind of polling ditto in the library it uses (unless I missed it…)
I’m wondering about getting more of these devices but want to make sure they are reliable (to be fair they always have been so far!) so I was thinking of adding a retry count if the first message doesn’t change the status of the switch.
I just had a quick look at the code, so I don’t really know anything specific. But the update of the entity in Home Assistant uses this (not sure if it’s exactly that repository though) to do the communication with the device.
I assume the state gets updated once every minute. With the current code it’s not possible to customize this I think. Except there’s a possibility to set the update interval somewhere else (like the customization part of the config). But I don’t know about that either.
Hi. I’m on the road myself to do my first component implementation for sonoff devices with original firmware. I got hit by the same problem(s) to put it short, to update the device status just fill the update/is_on/available/etc entity functions with proper logic (pull data from where you need it and parse it) and HA will take care of everything.
you can re-write the scan interval like this entity platform options or you can define SCAN_INTERVAL variable inside your component with desired value
to put it short, to update the device status just fill the update/is_on/available/etc entity functions with proper logic (pull data from where you need it and parse it) and HA will take care of everything.