Hey there @jpbede, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (ping) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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How is your Ping config entry configured, how many ICMP requests do you send?

Update of * is taking over 10 seconds indicates that the update takes to long, this is independent from whether this was triggered manually or not

Ah I see - I've got it configured to be 15 pings (and consider home to be 320 seconds). I suppose there's no way to complete in under 10 seconds or change the 10 second config as it's hardcoded:

I suppose one option is to drop the amount of pings to bring it to completion in under 10s, but I have some devices which can be a little laggy to reply. What do you think?

I suppose one approach would be to fire off a timer/task and update the sensor on completion of it, rather than when asked to by HA, but I'm not familiar enough with HA's internals to know if that's a sensible approach

Yea something like that. We need to postpone the first ping after the start.

Does #143616 look along the right lines?