Home Assistant User Agents are getting blocked - Unable to query own data about feinstaub-api HOT 8 CLOSED

Some of the HomeAssistant clients are requesting the same data dozens of times in a short amount of time. So only a small amount of these clients is creating more requests than all the other clients. Thats why we are blocking versions 0.84.x.

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These are NOT individual offenders. Its a known bug oft the Luftdaten plugin used with newer versions oft HomeAssistant. The plugin is creating new sensor instances on every new start of the HomeAssistant server.
So its an offensive software version we are blocking.

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That is a valid reason to try to restrict the request rate in a short term, but perhaps there are more optimal ways to throttle or block individual offenders instead.

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I understand. Thanks.

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Hi,

if this is a known bug do you have the reference for the fix?

Is the bug in the Home Assistant component (https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/luftdaten) or the wrappen lib (https://github.com/fabaff/python-luftdaten)?

I wonder if it actually is being fixed or not and the next version will be delivered with the same exact issue.

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A simple Google search for "homeassistant luftdaten creating new instances" shows the thread as the first result: home-assistant/core#18838

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These are NOT individual offenders. Its a known bug oft the Luftdaten plugin used with newer versions oft HomeAssistant. The plugin is creating new sensor instances on every new start of the HomeAssistant server.
So its an offensive software version we are blocking.

@ricki-z This is fixed in HA 0.87

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Fix is documented on home-assistant/core#20226

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