Homeyscript seems to have a memoryleak. Memory usage of homeyscript is growing very quickly after restarting the app or rebooting homey. Memory usage grows very quickly to about 30MB and then it takes a few hour to grow furher to 75MB. Thats the point where Homey disables the app. I have about 30 …

[image] mroek: After all, the scripts are called tens of thousands of times every day. Can’t you use something like a Logic variable and some {{ … }} magic to do what you now do with your script? I bet that if you ask Athom why your script it acting that way, you’ll get the answer that Homeys…

Perhaps. I’m not sure. What I am doing, is to send incoming values from MQTT to a virtual sensor device. There is an app (MQTT Hub) that I could probably use, but that feels like overkill for the simple task at hand. I have a flow that triggers when the MQTT client receives a message on a specific t…

It sounds like the MQTT Hub app, specifically its “MQTT Device” driver, fits what you want. Even though Homey is a computer, it’s isn’t meant to be a generic one. Homeyscript is a nice feature, but I doubt that it has been tested extensively and it wouldn’t surprise me if calling it as often as you…

Yes, the MQTT Hub app will probably do what I want, but as I said, it is somewhat overkill for the very small task at hand. I take it you don’t see a way of using some {{ … }} construct to solve my problem? It is a pity that debugging apps is a PITA on Homey, I don’t think I fully realized that bef…

[image] mroek: I take it you don’t see a way of using some {{ … }} construct to solve my problem? It’s probably possible, I just haven’t bothered to try it :sweat_smile:Probably something like {{ round([Message received from topic]) }} is enough for both the “Set virtual sensor value” and “Up…

Thanks, but that doesn’t seem to work. Probably doable though, so I’ll just have to experiment some more.

Looked at it some more, and this works: {{number('Message received from topic' )}} Message received from topic is the tag provided by the MQTT client. Thanks a bunch, I can now get rid of my scripts, which is good, but shouldn’t have been necessary.

Time to post an issue here: Issues · athombv/com.athom.homeyscript · GitHub

Thanks for confirming! As you can see, my problem was solved by getting rid of my scripts (with the help of @robertklep ), but it is if couse still not acceptable that Homeyscript leaks memory.

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Peter_Kawa December 18, 2021, 6:34pm 32

FWIW firing a script every sec does increase the memory usage more and more.
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