generated: '2026-08-26'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://guide.sensel.com/api/ , https://guide.sensel.com/api_adv/ ,
  https://guide.sensel.com/sensel_h.html ,
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sensel/sensel-api/master/sensel-lib/src/sensel.h
name: Sensel API rate limits
limit_count: 0
limits: []
response_headers: []
note: >-
  Not applicable, and recorded as such rather than omitted. The Sensel API is a local C library
  speaking to a USB/serial device; there is no server, no key, no quota and therefore no rate
  limiting and no rate-limit response headers. The nearest published throughput control is a
  device-side frame-rate ceiling the caller sets itself — senselSetMaxFrameRate() /
  senselGetMaxFrameRate() alongside senselSetScanMode() and senselSetScanDetail() — which governs
  how fast the sensor scans, not how often a client may call.
device_throughput_controls:
- call: senselSetMaxFrameRate
  purpose: Caller-set ceiling on device scan frame rate.
- call: senselSetScanDetail
  purpose: SCAN_DETAIL_HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — trades resolution for throughput.
- call: senselSetScanMode
  purpose: SCAN_MODE_DISABLE / SYNC / ASYNC.
- call: senselSetBufferControl
  purpose: Frame buffering depth.