[OBSOLETE] Hello, Home HomeKit (and Siri!) control via homebridge

[geko]

@brianjlambert

Due to the demand on the platform, in two weeks SmartThings will begin quarantining installations of the application that poll faster than once every 30 seconds.

Huh? @slagle, could you elaborate on this change? Currently, the rate limit is 250 requests in 60 seconds (see the reference below). Does it mean that you’re reducing it to just 2 requests per minute?

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To protect against this, inbound requests to such SmartApps will be limited to 250 requests in 60 seconds. If the limit is reached, each subsequent HTTP response will have a status code of 429, until the time window starts over. This allows callers to handle these excessive requests as they see fit.

Rate Limiting Annoucement

As has been previously discussed, we have been focussing on the stability and reliability of the SmartThings platform recently. The ability for developers to create their own solutions by authoring SmartApps and Device Handlers is also of utmost importance to us. Since all SmartApps and Device Handlers are currently executed in the SmartThings cloud*, we must ensure that no one SmartApp or Device Handler can negatively impact the overall security or health of the SmartThings platform. It is our priority to provide the most stable platform at any time, while also providing an open platform for community development. *See the FAQ at the end of this post for information about any impacts to locally executing SmartApps or Device Handlers in hub v2. SmartApp Execution SmartApps are typically…