A common theme since I first started with home automation 10 years ago is that excessive traffic on mesh networks, and chatty devices regardless of what radio they use, will eventually cause performance issues. Issues such as slowness and bloating of the DB.
What I envision is a dashboard view with per device traffic, or in other words, the rate at which it sends data back to HA. Other useful metrics should also be added to help user find the devices that are misbehaving.
Zwave JS UI, for example, has this for the zwave controller and also for the individual devices:
However, there is no view to show the statistics in a table view for easy troubleshooting of what is causing too much traffic or communication issues on the zwave mesh.
Something similar for Zigbee, Thread, and Wifi would be awesome, but all of them would need their own tabular view with some additional information that allows a user to interpret the data.
For example, in the snapshot above, are the dropped statistics excessive? Is the traffic excessive? (Note: statistics reset when you reboot as far as I know) Without the table you need to click into each one of my 100 zwave devices to find which one is causing the Dropped RX statistics.
ESPHome is another good example… I have over 50 nodes and am guilty of sending back too much data to HA. I have on occasion realized that HA was bogged down by ESPHome nodes with excessive update rates. I tone them down, and HA comes back to life.
