Problems to connect to Gardena cloud service with the Gardena binding

[cwi (Carl Wilhelm Ihne)]

There is a different thread discussing the “429: limit exceeded”, that popped up for many users just recently:

Gardena: Error 429 Limit Exceeded

@laursen many thanks for the insights. But the issue is actually not ‘how to recover from 429 errors’, but rather ‘how to prevent 429 errors’. The 429 error comes when the server rejects an API call because it thinks you have made too many calls already. See log below. And you can only recover from this error when the server decides to once more accept calls. (Apparently sometimes it decides rather soon to accept calls again, and sometimes it takes longer before the server will decide to accep…