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Improve call counter limits

Open alexbk66 opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Current Situation

Current daily call limit 10'000 is a major pain for the users, especially most valuable users with many SwitchBot devices. And with new devices added constantly - it will get worse.

Having the limit is actually discouraging users to get more new devices.

FYI, I'm the author of AKSwitchBot plugin for HomeSeer

Proposed Change

Multiple improvements can be made, better all of the below:

  1. Increment the limit (possibly double)

  2. Add call limit per minute (per 5 minutes) - similar to YoLink API- it's much safer hitting minute limit, then you can wait for a minute. But hitting daily limit is a pain - as you are out of control for the rest of the day - and the worst part you don't know the wait time (as counter reset time isn't documented). For home automation it's a major pain loosing control of your system for undefined time.

  3. Add "remaining" call counter to the API - either a new command, or better just return with each call.

Additional Context

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alexbk66 avatar Nov 10 '25 07:11 alexbk66