Update Frequency

[lux4rd0]

Hello!! I wanted to say that I love this integration! It's exactly what I was looking for to build out entities from scheduled calendar events. I did want to check that if I wanted to change the update frequency, is this the right place to make the change:

in __init__.py

Change:

MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_UPDATES = timedelta(seconds=120)

to:

MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_UPDATES = timedelta(seconds=3600)

In this case - 2 minutes to 15 minutes.

My particular use case doesn't have me updating my calendar often... So pinging every 2 minutes for an update that probably won't happen isn't needed. I didn't see an "update frequency" in the UI configuration - so just checking.

Thanks!

[LordMike]

I too would like this :)

[mbenecke]

a configuration option would be awesome.

Do you like to add it by yourself? Or do you like to have an pull request?

[Olen]

In this case - 2 minutes to 15 minutes.

3600 seconds = 60 minutes btw.

But remember that the frequency is not only about how ofte the remote calendar is polled, but also about how often the calendar entities are updated - and thereby also how quickly after an event has been added or removed from a calendar it will show up. AND how quickly after an event has passed it will update the sensors for the upcoming events. In this case, it would take up to 60 minutes from an event has passeed until it is removed from the event_1 sensor and the rest of the sensors are renumbered as well.

I don't really see any big benefits of increasing the polling interval, unless HA is installed on a very limited and metered connection, so every byte count.

If anything, it needs to be set as an option, since I for one would not accept the calendar and related entries to be updated so rarely.

With that said, I think this integration needs a lot more love, especially now that the core calendar integration has received a lot of updates in the last releases.

[PixelJonas]

I'm coming here from a metered connection where every byte counts 🤣 .
I think having an update interval would be nice. Maybe it could be like:

auto-update every X seconds, or when an event ends.

As I'm pulling the dates for the local recycling company (which do not change on a daily basis) I'd like to configure the sensor to only update once a day.

My 2 cent.

[tremor69]

I have a related problem with the update frequency. The garbage calendar of my city blocks me if I make more request than once a day. Currently I have patched my local install of the integration. Would it be possible to decouple updating entities and making calendar requests? I would be able to create a pull request if someone can point me in the right direction regarding the necessary ha documentation.

[Olen]

Once a day sounds really crazy (but I do trust you).

Possibly not the solution you are looking for, but there is another integration specifically for garbage collection:
https://github.com/mampfes/hacs_waste_collection_schedule

It probably already has logic for this if it is a known issue and it has support for your region.

[tremor69]

Unfortunately my municipality is not supported. I already checked. But maybe it is easier to add support to the other integration. I'll check that.

[Olen]

They have a generic ical module as well. But I don't know how often it polls the server.