Option to rate limit sending of commands

[rohrsh]

Description

Some controllers & networks are slow or crash when handling multiple commands which generate many messages across the network. This has been discussed at length #6512 (reply in thread) and Silicon Labs here .

Do you have a solution in mind?

To reduce the stress on the network, we could give users the ability to set a delay between sending messages to their Zwave network. This would require implementing some form of command queue. Default delay would be the current behaviour, 0ms, or no rate-limiting.

Describe alternatives you've considered

We hope for a firmware fix from Silicon Labs.

Some users have suggested multicasts but that doesn't prevent the network getting noisy.

I could create manual scripts in Home Assistant to turn all my lights on/off with a delay, but this is not scalable. I then considered creating a new Home Assistant light.turn_on/off service that supports queuing commands, but this is a bit beyond me.