I noticed the following serious problem with Homey. Homeyscript is consuming memory which increases in time. After a short period (20 to 90 minuts) there is probably a cleanup function to reset the memory consumption. During the memory cleanup (the dips in the graph) every Homeyscript freezes and…

[image] bergw: After a short period (20 to 90 minuts) there is probably a cleanup function to reset the memory consumption. No, the app is using too much memory (more than 120MB for more than 50 seconds) and gets restarted. Which also explains why the cards are temporarily unavailable.

The behaviour is not identical when the app restarts manually [image] The dip in the graph is after the app restart is intiated. This does not take 2 minuts and does not go to zero.

An app that gets restarted due to using too much memory basically crashes, which is different from a manual restart. Also, restarts due to crashes are delayed from anywhere between 10 to 120 seconds.

Yes I understand. But found no documentation about this. So Homeyscript crashes because it has memory leaks ? When not running any script. I see same behavior.

[image] bergw: But found no documentation about this. It’s not documented, I’m looking at Homey’s core code. Right after the app is started it’s already consuming about 60MB of RAM. On my Homey, which does absolutely nothing, it’s about the same. However, I don’t see any notable increases i…

Besides reporting again, any suggestion how to solve this ?

Look closer at your scripts to see if they’re causing the memory leaks.

I already did this more than once (maybe 15 times) and also runned it in the Homey simulator without Homeyscript. No issues reported.

[image] bergw: and also runned it in the Homey simulator without Homeyscript No idea what that means.

As it says a simulator that reacts on Homeyscript SDK calls but without the physical Homey. It runs a JS module and enables me to debug code as standalone VS Code debug target. It only supports static calls. Or in other words no live support of device responses. I use this for basic code structur…

Homeyscript strange behaviour

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robertklep March 8, 2024, 9:02am 15

Legally I probably can’t, but if you have a HP2023 you can jailbreak your Homey and access the code yourself.

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