How can I monitor the wifi speed ? I want to track it, because I think I have dropdowns
Some (decent) Routers(and HA integrations for same) have such settings/feature, most of your IOT end Devices, hardly, integrations for HA<>end-device ?, do you have your HA connected through WIFI ?
no I have it wired… and I have a standard router from orange, cant find it in HA
Thats a good “place” to “ask/search then”, though you have to be slightly more specific, i doubt they have something named/specified as just “standard router”
Can’t find What ?
Do you mean Wifi speed? Or your Internet speed? Is it a specific access point in your LAN that you think is a problem?
Wifi speed…
To monitor wifi speeds you would need two devices talking to each other where at least one is on wifi. I suggest setting up https://iperf.fr/
Set up the server on a cabled unit and run the client on a laptop or something.
If you have a Unifi network you can use the Wifiman app to do the same thing.
Right , Your HA is connected to your Router through ethernet, your Router is most likely you only place where you can monitor wifi speed, not sure whether you want to “measure” it between your laptop, or between a camera and your Router , or how you think
As i understand you can rule out HA as a source of your “dropdowns”
Maybe you mean, or are affected of the phenomenon called “Interference”
1st READ the manual of your Router, or “Poke Around” WITHOUT changing anything, just to get familiar with it’s features/settings etc
2. And try to think more in “details”, like where/when does these “Dropdowns” occur
3. I.E overall ?, between specific points/devices ?
Um, Speedtest?
Do you really want to monitor WiFi speed (you need WiFi connected device to run speedtest to some server, there are options to be installed locally in docker, libretest or openspeed test)?
Or rather actual usage/throughput of AP? Then most likely SNMP is your friend, if your AP is at least a bit advanced one…
Or, as you formulated the problem to be some dropdown, perhaps just simple connectivity monitoring is the solution, using just simple ping sensor to specific network device would be the solution? Bonus, beside connection up/down, you can also track latency, that would give some indication on WiFi speed/load.
The problem is that there are sometimes wifi losses And I want to monitor that. But maybe HA isnt the solution for that…
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A ping sensor against the IP of the device you want to monitor will show if you have any packet loss (drops). You could also look at Uptime Kuma. This will not monitor “speed” (bandwidth) that you’ve specified several times though.