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In the office we have an automation system that talks in modbus. Right now I have Node Red that receives data from modbus (via IP), sends it to MQTT and send messages from MQTT to modbus. In HA I have 15 MQTT climates that works. I want to bypass Node Red; I've added an automation that gets triggered when a MQTT values arrives and sends the new value to mobus:

alias: Climate_update_modbus_setpoint_studio1
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: mqtt
    topic: home_assistant/thermostat/setpoint/Studio1
actions:
  - data:
      hub: picnet
      address: 1099
      value: "{{ (trigger.payload | float * 10) | int }}"
    action: modbus.write_register
mode: queued

The problem is that the modbus change takes a lot.

• I change the climate setpoint, after about 0.5 seconds the MQTT value changes and the automation gets triggered
• the modbus register changes in a range of about 0.5-3 seconds
• sometimes the automation gets triggered and I see the trigger bar yellow instead of blue and the modbus register changes after longer

With Node Red I have no problem with modbus. What can I check to try to find the source of the problem?

I have 3 servers:

• my house
• my sister house
• my parents house

My server has a lot of services (Nextcloud and Immich the ones that use more space), the other 2 servers only have Home Assistant, Frigate and some shared folders. On my server I use Backrest to backup locally and on Wasabi, the other 2...well...are not backed up 🙈 ...yet!

I was thinking to buy a couple of 14/20TB drives and install them in my parents and sister servers so that each server can backup data on the other 2. The backup will be done locally on all the servers with Backrest. How do I copy the backups across servers? Should I use Syncthing or is it better to use one repository per location on each Backrest? Or...other ideas?

Thanks!

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