Speedtest.net integration showing wildly slower speeds than running from OS

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

My experience as well. I now use the official ookla binary to run the actual tests.

Here are a couple of threads you may find useful:

Add the official speedtest cli

Open a terminal, change to the homeassistant user, run the program and accept the two license agreements: pi@hassbian:~ $ sudo -u homeassistant -H -s homeassistant@hassbian:/home/pi $ speedtest --f json-pretty Configuration.yaml: - platform: command_line name: Speedtest command: "speedtest --f json-pretty" value_template: "{{ value_json.download['bandwidth'] }}" command_timeout: 30 scan_interval: 1800 Result: [image]

Speedtest server ID

I’ll mention a setup I did several months ago (so I may have forgotten some of the details) which maybe rather more complicated than it should be, but something you may be able to use. In essence I use a python script that calls a speedtest binary developed by OOKLA called Speedtest CLI. The python script uses the server-id of my choosing. I call the script (using HA shell command) whenever I need it to run it using an automation. The script parses the returned values from the binary and in t…