Internal Traffic usage

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I just got a new Unifi Switch that gives me data on its ports. Since putting it in on Saturday afternoon and its now Tuesday evening my HomeAssistant server has send and received 787
/767GB

I've checked in my router and it hasn't used much external at all - About 400MB from memory so this is obviously device chatter.

I've got a few about 11 Tuya devices, 3 Wemo, A Dual sonoff switch and a few Zigbee devices on a Tuya Zigbee gateway for a Tuya Human Presence detector and a Shelly Power Monitor

Does 700GB both directions seem like a lot of chatter over 2.5 days??

I would have thought even though a lot of them would have constant chatter 700GB is a LOT of data? Its not going to the Internet so its just Homeassistant talking to devices I guess.

I've looked at my Unifi controller for top devices and the busiest smart device is a TPLInk HS110 smart switch and power monitor that I control a mains EV charger on and thats used 110MB in 24 hours.

I can't understand how Home Assistant has used so much network traffic but it doesn't add up based on individual device use?

2

Yes that seems like a lot. Do you have cameras constantly streaming to your Home Assistant Dashboard?

The usual culprit is the SpeedTest integration but that would show up as external traffic.

3

These are all cloud data things (except the zigbee probably), but that's a lot.

4

Which does not matter as it is excessive local traffic that is the issue, not to the internet.

5

No, I don’t have my cameras on Home Assistant. I’m seeing the traffic tally is the result of a unifi switch I just installed and today it’s not showing at all. I suspect what happened is that my Home Assistant is a hyperv on my windows server. I suspect as it was still learning it had assigned one on the ports as belonging to the hyperv guest even though the physical network card on that port is the host OS. The host os also runs a Plex install so it was probably giving a port total but throwing me when it associated it with the homeassistant is.

Today Home Assistant doesn’t show on any of the ports.

Looks like it was a switch “glitch” combined with me not stopping and thinking about the fact the homeassistant is a virtual nic on my servers real Nic interface.