That’s my experience as well. I have 2 of the Eagle’s and they appear to be happier pushing data. Polling is a little problematic with them. If you are going to poll, you have to be ready for timeouts and other error conditions. I found them to be far more reliable when they push data. No errors, no issues.
Thank you for this - I’d been battling with a Python->MQTT solution (which was working until I updated mosquitto), and then last night I tried setting this up and within a matter of minutes had it working better and more smoothly than either the binding or the Python version ever did. Set it up as a LaunchAgent this morning.