[new-binding] Integration of SAIC (MG) iSmart based Vehicles

[Doug_Culnane]

There was an interesting point raised by a user’s usecase of the renualt binding. They requested an “update now” function here:

Betatest - Renault ZE Services Binding

Yes I would like the batterystatusupdated timestamp. I think its usefull. Another idea is to have a channel (for a switch for example) to make a poll to the MyRenault App from inside an openhab-rule. to promptly update the informations. In my Usecase: Now that we have 2 cars and only one wallbox, I’d like to know which of the car is plugged to the charger. With the automated polling I will receive this information after at least 5 minutes (in my case), that could be to long. I have a workar…

I have implemented a polling interval for the renault binding as a configuration parameter and just added an update now switch for forcing a “poll now”. This will hopefully allow rules to update the data when needed. The reanault servers do not like lots of requests and lock you out for a cool down period if you overload the API…

So I think a long polling interval (renault binding defaults to 10 mins) and update now or force update function is good combination.