Just a quick question: Is it OK for the app to use MASSIVE data? Opening the app, connecting and checking a single TAB or two, takes between 50 to 150 Mb of data.
I tend to check some sensors of my house more often than possibly needed from abroad and this sums up to one GIGABYTE of data per day …
Only thing that I can think of is one video stream of a camera on the “home tab”.
Any ideas, comments?
That’s the issue.
You’re sure? Or assuming? Well I just could try myself and disable the video stream and see if it helps.
I just couldn’t imagine that a bad quality video the size of a stamp needs that much data.
Have an hour of a Teams video call is like a gig.
The question is: Is this video data sent even when the video is not shown on the screen? If that is the case I could move it to some other tab - not the home tab.
Maybe it would be great to have an option to reduce data usage, or reduce the video quality of the stream?!
Yeah. I had 4 cameras in picture entity cards on my front page once. They only updated once every 10 seconds and they were in vertical/horizontal stacks so they were only rendered at postage stamp size too. But the browser was receiving the full resolution. The data use was not worth it. Put them on their own camera view that I could open if needed.
Well my picture entity cards seem to only use data when the camera view is open but I saw a report today that streams might have an issue where they are not closed correctly. See:
Most cameras support multiple streams. How about sending a low res stream for previewing on your front page?
Thanks for the hint. That should sort it out! 
That’s what I did with mine for the same reason. I have one view just for cameras which I only look at when on WiFi. I have automations set up so that I get notifications with pictures if some of the camera detections get tripped.