Seeking Advice:

[therealdb]

In a quest to further stabilize my Vera before I'll move to Z-Way+openLuup or something else later this year (I'm tempted to go the Home Assistant route, since all my friends are here, apparently), I've spent a couple of days removing HTTP calls from the system and I'm now fully using the UDP sender @akbooer has written in the past, to push all variables (and custom events/request as well) to my MQTT broker, then to some code doing the actual work.

Responsiveness seems to be at its maximum now, and stability has improved. There's still a lot of code locally on my Vera, but it's mainly doing variables comparison/scenes, while all notifications and heavy logic are now running in my linux box.

So, maybe, not insisting on the sockets and just use the same UDP server is the way to go for me.

[akbooer]

That's good to know. Certainly, you can't really get lower overhead than UDP, and after having monitored millions and millions of transactions on my local network, I've seen no evidence of any message getting 'lost', so a transaction handshake is really not required.

[Buxton]

@therealdb Hey,
If you're happy with the UDP sender, can you post it in the alt-plugin store. That is if it's in plugin form. I'm considering doing the same thing and no use re-inventing the wheel.

[therealdb]

@buxton no plugin at the moment, just a bunch of code. I was planning to do it and use the VeraBridge inside openluup, but I could definitely start with just the server part soon.