I recently added a new device (Zooz light switch), and then noticed my Hubitat had an alert about an elevated load. Checking my device stats and I see my RatGDO device is using a lot of busy percentage. Looking at the logs I see it is quite chatty, always reporting on the status of lights or door position.
If I need to remove the washer/dryer from my hubitat, that would not be a huge loss for me as they don't really offer any benefits at all to being "smart" devices. By my garage door does obviously. Is there anything I can do to to reduce it's usage?
Here's the RatGDO dashboard, and you can see it logging "events" multiple times every second
Really need to let the hub run a while (48 hours or so) before worrying too much about the usage numbers. At 7 minutes the hub is still initializing devices and apps so the numbers are inflated.
ratgdo should not be sending status updates as often as that. You should verify that the hubitat logs also show that it's getting those messages from whatever method you use to integrate ratdgo into hubitat. You may have to power cycle the ratgdo.
The RatGDO can be chatty if you open and close it a lot because of the position attribute updates. As the door opens and closes that value changes constantly. I personally modified the driver code to only update the position value once the door stops moving:
