Speedtest runs at start, can that be disabled?

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Hi,
Before the 2023.1: Happy New Year of the voice! - Home Assistant release ran the speedtest using an automation. After the release I had to disable the polling for updates to stop it from testing every hour, but I cannot stop it from running a speed test at the startup of HA.

Does someone know how to disable all “self triggered speed tests” ?
This is all I could find and what I disabled. :arrow_down: Did I miss something?

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Since the change

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Same here, anybody have an idea to stop self running speedtests?

Steffen

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If enable polling for updates is disabeld there is no self triggert update and there is no update with the automation running several month fine with homeassistant.update_entity.

So how we can only run a Speedtest to special times and not all the day?

Steffen

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The hourly run is described in the release notes I added in the opening post.
It writes:

The update frequency option has been removed. The default frequency is now 60 minutes. If you like to customize the polling: disable polling update from system options and use the update_entity service in an automation to manually update it at your own custom schedule.

This topic is about the fact that speedtest runs after a restart of HA.

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Yes I know, but I do not want to self running every 60 minutes and not after a restart. I use a automation update the entities to run a Speedtest on a special time and do not want more.

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Hi, I have the same question. Did you manage to stop it from running every restart?

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I haven’t payed attention to it, but am pretty sure it doesn’t run after a restart. My configuration.yaml has the option manual enabled.

manual: true

I assume that did the trick at the end, but tbh I don’t recall if it was a bug that eventually was fixed, or that it was fixed by a config change.

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Hi, can you be more specific?
Where did you put in configuration.yaml the line you mentioned?

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I am not able to get my config at the moment, but the docs are helpful too I guess: Iperf3 - Home Assistant

To add the iperf3 sensor to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file. After changing the configuration.yaml file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes.

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An, but that is a different integration for the same purpose. Didn’t know it existed. Speedtest.net is configured through the UI.

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oh sorry… yes, i’m talking about Speedtest.net
I thought that was the one you were referring to