Speedtest intergration

[riggs498 (Ryan)]

I am running an odriod N2+. It is connect to my 10gb switch and then to my router. There is nothing in the switch that is limiting my bandwidth. I am running a cisco 2960. Speedtest in home assistant tells me that I can only test out at 72Mbps. Fast.com is saying 172Mbps. The problem is, I connect my laptop the same way I have the odroid. I am attaching a photo of the speedtest. I have also not if I do an internet speedtest. and I will show that photo. From the download is a lot slower then the upload. Is there something wrong with the home assistant network setup? I am using the default install from the home assistant site. I also used the VM and get the same result. Just want to get a more accurate speedtest. This helps when I have to call and complain cause my internet is not working right.

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

Many, myself included, have found that the official HA speedtest integration is not accurate.
Instead, users use the official Speedtest binary (platform dependent) and integrate it in with HA.
Here are a couple of threads you may find useful:

Add the official speedtest cli

I think my issue is related to running Hassio in docker - think it’s an access issue outside of docker that stops the command from running properly. Even using your code I still get nothing back. I tried running the command as a shell command so that I could pipe the speedtest command and accept the terms and conditions but that didn’t work either. Shame that the current sensor gives me a result about 50% lower than the CLI command gives. Glad you got it sorted.

Speedtest Integration No longer loading

I think it’s Speedtest as even before it broke recently it would stop for no reason. Manually running the service would kick it again but I was finding it failed every few days. When it broke, I switched to using the cli from ookla and it’s solid.