[FEATURE]: engine timeout refresh option

[rossisbudda]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Every time I install terrariumPi, I always need to go and edit the terrariumEngine.py file, to reduce the cycle period for engine updates. This gives me more precise control over my environment which is not very climate controlled, meaning a lot can happen in 30 seconds. I've had my best results when reducing the timeout from 30s to as low as 4s or 5s. This only works well for me since I eliminated all wireless/cloud based hardware, and now have a simple fast reliable wired only setup.

Describe the solution you'd like
I wonder if it's possible to add the option to make this a variable and allow to set it in some advanced settings?
I realise it's not advisable but I would love to have this level of control, even if the option has to come with a strong advisory.

Additional context
This is the line of code I usually edit, but it's usually not very convenient to manage by editing the files as I do.

[theyosh]

Hmm, this will update the engine to update more often. But that does not mean that the data is more red. All sensors have a 30 sec cache timeout. So even when you read them every 10 seconds, you will only get a new value after 30 seconds, the 4th time you read it out.

The only thing you gain with this is that the relays should toggle a bit more tighter to the time schema. EX. now it can happen that the lights go on after 25 seconds after the calculated time. That can be reduced with running the engine more often.

That being said, I think I have a solution for this. I am just testing it a bit more, and write some documentation.

[theyosh]

For now, only available for manual installation after pulling the latest code with git

[theyosh]

More info: https://theyosh.github.io/TerrariumPI/faq/override-engine-timeout/

[rossisbudda]

Ah cool!! Thanks for the attention!!! Looking forward to trying that out.

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