I just noticed that my Veralite has transferred 1.03 GB of data to fwd5.mios.com (65.49.38.11). Thats just from 3/5 to 3/6, that’s suspicious. Looking at this month’s netflow stats it has only transfered 1.24GB. So what the heck is it doing between today and yesterday?
Do you have pics or videos being uploaded?
John
No idea, but a few thoughts:
a) If you have a client that’s remote-only (either locked to do that, or with no WiFi)…
… and is loading the Full [tt]user_data[/tt] (rather than incremental loads) every ~30 seconds
… and you have 400K of [tt]user_data[/tt] (which is more common these days)
Then leaving that client running for 24hrs would consume ~1G of data. IIRC there are one or two Control Points that load the full user-data rather than implementing the incremental load.
If Vera implemented HTTP’s 1.1’s Accept-Encoding scheme, this transmission would be a lot smaller (and a lot faster). Past experience has shown content reductions of 1/7th → 1/10th of the original size. Not a fix, but would certainly help minimize costs on Pay-as-you-go Wireless links.
b) Enable Verbose Logging…
and look at the “luvd” lines in the log file that have the string “done” in them. These contain a record of what was requested/sent, in the form of a URI, along with how large it was.
root@MiOS_300DONKEY:/tmp/log/cmh# grep luvd LuaUPnP.log | grep done | grep user_data
10 03/06/14 17:05:11.003 luvd_get_info_data_request done /data_request?id=user_data_ui6&rand=0.789666497381404 ret 0 size 122547 ... info
10 03/06/14 17:05:11.029 luvd_get_info_data_request done /data_request?id=user_data_ui6&rand=0.2976281971205026 ret 0 size 122547 ... info
10 03/06/14 17:05:25.339 luvd_get_info_data_request done /data_request?id=user_data_ui6&rand=0.37273813295178115 ret 0 size 122532 ... info
10 03/06/14 17:05:25.589 luvd_get_info_data_request done /data_request?id=user_data_ui6&rand=0.7229335634037852 ret 0 size 122532 ... info
c) Got cameras?
I don’t, but they use some mechanism to archive that data/snapshots, which I imagine could be quite large.
My Vera has been detached from MCV’s Network for 6-9 months now, so I can’t validate this last one.
Thanks guys.
I do have cameras but I am not sending snapshots or clips. I use BlueIris DVR for that function. I have two iPhones with Homewave but they are both using WIFI. The iPads around house are WiFi only.
I am still investigating. I just spun up a VM that’s running tcpdump. I will update this forum if I find anything.
If you want to save a step, you can run [tt]tcpdump[/tt] directly on Vera. You used to have to jump hoops to load the package, but now you can just:
opkg update
opkg install tcpdump
and then you’re off to the races with the usual gammit of filters (etc). Just save your output to a USB attached drive (or somewhere with space)