Scan internal units

poratnir · January 18, 2019, 11:31am

Hey
what are the units for scan interval of sensor in HA?

tom_l · January 18, 2019, 12:09pm

Seconds.

pnbruckner · January 19, 2019, 3:09am

If you use a simple number, then yes, it’s seconds. However, I’m pretty sure scan_interval also accepts other forms (similar to script delays) like:

scan_interval: hh:mm:ss
scan_interval:
  seconds: ss
scan_interval:
  minutes: mm
etc.

poratnir · January 19, 2019, 7:59am

No ability to do ms?

tom_l · January 19, 2019, 8:03am

I’m pretty sure you dont want to do that. The HA event bus won’t be able to keep up.

poratnir · January 19, 2019, 8:18am

So how to handle scan warnings?

tom_l · January 19, 2019, 8:30am

What warnings?

poratnir · January 19, 2019, 5:16pm

Log Details (WARNING)

Sat Jan 19 2019 19:16:23 GMT+0200 (Israel Standard Time)

Updating modbus sensor took longer than the scheduled update interval 0:00:01

pnbruckner · January 19, 2019, 7:04pm

Yeah, trying to scan something every second is a stretch. Looks like your hardware, given your configuration, is not able to keep up. You should increase the scan interval on that sensor until the warnings go away. It’s not scanning as fast as you want anyway.

poratnir · January 20, 2019, 6:27pm

will this impact also no response issues?