core: Forecast.Solar Rate Limiting Error (no API version)

The problem

I have been using Firecast.Solar for over a year and it’s been running fine (I use it to calculate whether or not to charge my home battery overnight). I can think of nothing in my local environment (e.g. network connection, hardware etc) that has changed.

Two days ago (9th April 2023) I started to receive a Rate Limit Error. This persists even after restarting the integration. When I deleted and reinstalled the integration the integration didn’t initialise and no devices or entities were created.

I am using the free tier API, without any API key.

[See attached images for details of the error messages and logs)

Error 1 Error 2

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.4.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

core-2023.4.1

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Forecast.Solar

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/forecast_solar

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Logger: homeassistant.components.forecast_solar
Source: components/forecast_solar/coordinator.py:65
Integration: Forecast.Solar (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10 April 2023 at 11:39:25 (1161 occurrences)
Last logged: 13:56:41

Unexpected error fetching forecast_solar data: 'X-Ratelimit-Limit'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/update_coordinator.py", line 250, in _async_refresh
    self.data = await self._async_update_data()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/forecast_solar/coordinator.py", line 65, in _async_update_data
    return await self.forecast.estimate()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/forecast_solar/__init__.py", line 148, in estimate
    data = await self._request(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/forecast_solar/__init__.py", line 125, in _request
    self.ratelimit = Ratelimit.from_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/forecast_solar/models.py", line 199, in from_response
    limit = int(response.headers["X-Ratelimit-Limit"])
KeyError: 'X-Ratelimit-Limit'

Additional information

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About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Comments: 29 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Perhaps changing the declination makes the service see the API call as a different call, and resets the call count?

Changing something in the options flow will force a new request to the API, it will not reset the counter that is based on where the request is coming from (ip adres). I now know a bit more why the ratelimit header no longer appears with every request.

klaasnicolaas on Apr 14, 2023

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Perhaps changing the declination makes the service see the API call as a different call, and resets the call count?

Let’s see how it goes, but at least we appear to have a work around.

DavidqStokes on Apr 14, 2023

Changing the Declination from 13% to 15% fixed the issue for me.

Interesting. I changed from 40 degrees to 39 degrees and then restarting also ‘fixed’ it for me - for now. We’ll see how it goes on.

Hopefully this is a useful clue for understanding the problem and making a permanent fix.

Yes, that’s interesting! Changing from 90 degrees to 89 degrees and restarting fixed it also for me. Until so far.

seiferrtalle on Apr 14, 2023

Changing the Declination from 13% to 15% fixed the issue for me.

Interesting. I changed from 40 degrees to 39 degrees and then restarting also ‘fixed’ it for me - for now. We’ll see how it goes on.

Hopefully this is a useful clue for understanding the problem and making a permanent fix.

DavidqStokes on Apr 14, 2023