When using the Ring integration, if I have the camera entities enabled, my bandwidth usage goes through the roof. It seems like it continuously downloads the latest video every time it finishes downloading the latest video. On the order of TB per month. If i disable the camera entities, bandwidth usage is back to normal. Is there some configuration i’m missing to only download the latest video once?
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Did you enable local downloads?
downloader:
download_dir: downloads
Remove this.
Downloading files locally will cause this be because you would literally be downloading TBs of video.
Where is this located? I haven’t made any custom config changes to the standard ring integration
The symptom may be a bit different though, I’ve experienced something similar so allow me to just report here.
- Issue: Lovelace loses connection / show “wait”.
- This happened on all devices I have (Android / Firefox on laptop / Fire HD / Chromebook app).
- Happened on both Nabucasa cloud or LAN.
- Effective resolution (so far as I’ve found): Disable “Live” on a Picture card that shows Ring camera view (which for me shows a short anime of the last detected motion).
I’ve reproduced the issue by enabling “Live”, and so far the one I mentioned above has been effective. That said I don’t know if that’s the single cause. I’ve tried many things in an attempt to resolve this issue, but only this has been working.
In my config folder I do not see download_dir in text search (ack -ir download_dir $PATH_HASS_CONF does not return anything). I do not see large amount of seemingly video files downloaded either on HASS config folder either.