I’ve noticed that my Netatmo integration for my two (2) Netatmo Presence Outdoor cameras lead to a massive data throughput on my Home Assistant. I noticed this behaviour when using the officical Andorid app “Security” from Netatmo, where I couldn’t get a live feed from both cameras anymore - they always timed out. This can be seen, when adding the entity as a picture card to your lovelace dashboard. Following details to the issue:
- Supervisor Version 2020.12.7
- Home Assistant OS 5.9 (64bit)
- Home Assistant 2020.12.1
- Docker Version 19.03.13
This is my current Lovelace view - by default kept to a minimum:
type: picture-entity
entity: camera.netatmo_eingang
camera_image: camera.netatmo_eingang
name: Eingang
This is the network throughput to that page:
You’ll see the throughput on eth0 based on the Netatmo camera feed. When the camera feed is removed from Lovelace, you’ll notice the immediate drop in data throughput (around 3:00pm). When there is no lovelace card, I also can see the feed in the Netatmo Android app again - no timeout anymore. I declare this massive throughput, since 15GB of data has been used within 12hours. This is way too much for a camera feed. I would understand that the live feed is only taken once the Lovelace is active or the camera view is set to “live”.
- Is this reproducable on any other configuration?
- Is there a setting to disable constant data stream (e.g. set card status to picture?)
- Did I miss a setting within Netatmo config?
Thank you