Webhook rate -- 1 request / 6 seconds?

Troubleshooting
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Hi, I am learning to send data from Photon to AWS using webhook. Currently the connection is good, but it will show me “{“data”:“Rate limit exceeded, please wait and try again”,“ttl”:“60”,“published_at”:“2016-04-16T18:48:00.923Z”,“coreid”:“particle-internal”,“name”:“hook-error/test/0”}” if the delay for each publish loop is less than 6 seconds. 6 seconds for a single insertion to the AWS DB is too long for me. Also I see some other examples doing a webhook request per 0.1 second.

Is this webhook rate (1 request/ 6 seconds) normal? How can I improve this?

Thanks!

2

Taking a look at the docs never hurts…
https://docs.particle.io/guide/tools-and-features/webhooks/#limits
Could you show us the example where they do it at 0.1s?

3

Thank you! I see the reason now…


I read this post again, it’s not doing per 0.1s. But still much more frequent than 6s?

4

There might be another limit involved that slows down your speed of triggering the webhook

https://docs.particle.io/reference/firmware/photon/#particle-publish-

Especially if you once hit the limit, you have to remain silent for four seconds to recover.

5

From the link you posted:
“After one full minute of looping, the total is sent to my AWS API Gateway via the Particle webhook functionality.”

6

I’d also suspect a possible issue in the project code there in this section

    //The button's have been triggered! Record this!
    if ((b.buttonOn(2) and b.buttonOn(4)) or (b.buttonOn(1) and b.buttonOn(3))) {
        b.ledOn(3, 0, 255, 0); // Green
        b.ledOn(9, 0, 255, 0); // Green
        
        Particle.publish("sendSleep", "True", 60, PRIVATE);
        delay(500);
    }
    ...
    delay(100);

If you keep the buttons pressed long enough the creator will also run into the rate limit, since the average publishing rate will be 1.667 per second.

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A user by default may trigger a webook up to 10 times per minute for every device that is registered to their account.

Does that mean each device has a limit of 10 times per minute?
ex. 10 devices can each trigger a webhook 10 times per minute = 100 triggers per minute

Or, does that mean each user has a limit of 10 times per minute for every device?
ex. 10 devices registered, but 1 device triggers a webhook 100 times per minute = 100 triggers per minute