Hello,
I have since a month a Homey Energy Dongle. I noticed that my Homey is somewhat slower than before. I get from time to time timeouts and I need to restart the app “more often”. I noticed too that the cpu temperature of Homey is arising from 42 degrees to 56 degrees since I’ve installed the dongle. I also noticed that the cpu-clock is went from 0,94ghz to 1,5ghz since I’ve installed the Dongle.
The dongle is overall working very well and very accurate. I was wondering do other people have also this kind of issues and is there a way to change the polling mechanism of the dongle which you can do with the HomeWizard P1 meter?
Just a guess, but the dongle sending updates every second can cause more load, depending how busy your Homey already is.
I understand from your question there’s no setting to decrease that interval (yet), you’d best request it @ homey.app/support.
I wonder, when you disconnect the dongle, do those values go back to “usual” again?
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Thank you for your reply and the advise about the feature request.
I’m in contact currently with Homey for investigating the issue. Disconnecting the dongle does lower down the cpu/temperature with 4 degrees which is less extreme than my printscreens but there is a visible effect. I’ll update when I have more information.
I received the following update from Homey
Our Developer took a look and sees nothing wrong with the Energy Dongle or the Homey. Both function normally and show no issues or signs of being slow, not even in his Android app.
Do you still have the issue now after reinstalling the Dongle?
It could be that your phone has trouble keeping up with the constant updates of the Dongle. I have made a feature request to our Development team to see if they can add an option to change this so the App doesn’t have to constantly update in realtime but only when selected or even add an adjustable interval.
The CPU clock is the wakeup interval and shows Homey being busy or in sleep mode, because you use an Energy Dongle Homey doesn’t go in sleep mode anymore because it constantly receives data. This is not really important the CPU ‘Belasting’ is what is important this shows how busy Homey is and how heavy this is, here we don’t see anything wrong. Your Homey has plenty of power left. Because Homey is busy it can get warmer but still it is nowhere near its limit (you cloud check if placing Homey on another surface helps the temperature).
At this moment the temperature is between 49 and 52 degrees. After disconnecting the homey dongle and re-inserting it a few days later I did not encounter any slowdowns anymore in the app.
