Update status with one request about homebridge-thermostat

[phenotypic]

@mariusz2108 I agree that this is quite inefficient; however, implementing this isn't straight forward due to the way HomeKit requests information.

The way I can see around it is for there to be a central function called something like getStatus which will do the one request; then, when a variable is requested e.g. getTargetTemperature, it asks the getStatus function for this info rather than requesting it directly from the thermostat. However, the central function must ensure that the info is up-to-date.

Like I said, I agree that this would be an improvement and I'm interested in looking into implementing this into my fork of the plugin in the near future then creating a pull request into the main branch.

Best, Tom

[PJCzx]

I also agree, but according on how you will ask SIRI/Home App information, you will still have 4 Calls. Indeed, we can separate the call to get a lighter payload, but at the time I did the plugin, I didn't saw much difference.

And then I think about all the peoplle the have a working API that could be broken with a new implementation.

Do you think this is really an issue ?

@Tommrodrigues, if you do a PullRequest (what can be nice) I will wrap it into a new version. V1.X.X

Thx

[mariusz2108]

I have made POC with "caching" results and it makes huge difference for me (my home bridge runs on raspberry pi).
First request gets data and save it.
Then I start timer for one minut.
Sice now for one minute every request is taken from "cache".

I am not sure if it's good solution since I don't know well JS. But it works.

[PJCzx]

Not bad ;) it may be a good in between :) If you want to add a config param if unset that don’t cache it can make a good pull request :) Sent from my mobile device.

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