Race condition during status update? about pyenvisalink

[Cinntax]

Hey- yeah i agree that the zone timer dump isn't nearly as important with the DSC panels as it is for the Honeywell ones. The honeywell panels don't do a very good job at all of reporting status, and thus the zone timer dumps are a way of helping us keep updated. With the DSC panels they're much more event based.
Have you tried setting 0 as your interval? This library here will totally disable the timer dumps if it's set to zero already. I suppose it's possible the HA component is forcing it to something though.

    if self._alarmPanel.zone_timer_interval > 0:
            ensure_future(self.periodic_zone_timer_dump(), loop=self._eventLoop)

[Cinntax]

Yeah, actually looks like the HA component just ensures it's an integer. So if "0" doesn't work (like it's being treated as uninitialized and falling back to default), i'd think even a value of -1 would work.

[sgruby]

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

[Cinntax]

Just curious- did this work at all? I just had someone else report a very similar condition, and I recommended this to them also.

[sgruby]

Honestly I hadn't tried it 😀 I just put in -1 and will see what happens. I put in a fail safe in my Node-RED flow that checks to see if a light was turned off less than 30 seconds ago so that even if I get a delayed zone open/closed, it won't pop the light back on.

Thanks for checking in with me!

[crackers8199]

just found this thread: i've been having this issue for months and finally found this on a search...does the above idea work? i just set zonedump_interval to -1 in config but haven't really had a chance to test it yet.

[crackers8199]

preliminary experience seems very good that -1 for zonedump_interval does in fact solve this problem, in case anyone else stumbles upon this thread looking for help like i was. haven't seen the open/close cycle shortly after closing a door or window since i set that up about 4 days ago. will keep monitoring it but for now this seems to be the best solution.

[crackers8199]

just wanted to throw a heads up in here: this seems to have been working well, until yesterday when i updated from HA 2021.9.3 to 2021.10.1 - all of a sudden after the update, i started seeing the bounces in status again, especially on my garage door sensor. i just restarted the envisalink and that seems to have corrected it for now, but i'll keep an eye on it.