do not overload the esp with status requests

App/package-lock.json

@@ -4735,7 +4735,8 @@
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/growly/-/growly-1.3.0.tgz",
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       }
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+      "optional": true,
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         "growly": "^1.3.0",
         "is-wsl": "^2.2.0",
@@ -6555,6 +6558,7 @@
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           }
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+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "isexe": "^2.0.0"
           }
@@ -10990,7 +10995,8 @@
     "shellwords": {
       "version": "0.1.1",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/shellwords/-/shellwords-0.1.1.tgz",
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+      "optional": true
     },
     "signal-exit": {
       "version": "3.0.3",
@@ -12464,7 +12470,8 @@
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/uuid/-/uuid-8.3.1.tgz",
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+      "optional": true
     },
     "v8-compile-cache": {
       "version": "2.2.0",

App/src/GcodeSender.tsx

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export class GcodeSenderComponent extends React.PureComponent<
         this.handleSend = this.handleSend.bind(this);
         this.update = this.update.bind(this);
 
-        setInterval(this.update, 100);
+        setInterval(this.update, 500);
     }
 
     public handleInputChange(