I have a Vera Lite with 5 cameras and some temperature sensors connected to a rfxtrx433. The Vera is connected to a router with a modem.
For some years I used 3G modem and the data usage was about 1 gigabyte per month. A month ago I upgraded to a 4G router and changed internet provider. I don’t use this system for surfing, it’s only for the Vera. Surprisingly, the data usage immidiately went from 1 GB to 60 GB.
Is this common? Is there a way to monitor the data usage in order to understand what is consuming data?
It’s unlikely, at least as you describe it. You describe a system using 1Gb per month and then, ‘only changing the ISP’ using 60 times more. That doesn’t add up. There’s zero reason for Vera to use even a single byte more data in this scenario
I’m willing to bet that you’ve made other changes to your system as well as changing ISPs, that are consuming more bandwidth. Things that will increase your bandwidth use include:
[ul][li]Adding more devices or plugins. This increases the size of your system’s files and the daily backups.[/li]
[li]Newly implemented plugins that transfer data, like Ergy, or Weather app.
[/li][li]Remote access such as web browsers, smartphone/tablet apps. (Have your apps upgraded since changing ISPs?)[/li]
[li]Notifications. Offsite temperature updates/logging.[/li]
[li]Cameras. Were there always 5? Have the resolutions changed? Are you saving snapshots or videos?[/li]
[li]Firmware updates? - I’m not aware of any significant changes here, but it’s entirely possible that a firmware update may have changed the amount of data back and forth.[/li][/ul]
Of course, this all assumes that your ISPs were correctly reporting your data use to begin with.
Seeing as I just purchased a verizon modem for a vacation home/edge set up I will be very interested in what you find out. I was planning on setting mine up next month.
Video viewing/clip storage would be something that could bump up your usage…but you know this…
Neighbor hijacking your IP? …but you probably know this also.
Well meaning loved one watching netflix?
There are tools for networks and PC’s to monitor bandwidth of a specific internal IP but this won’t work with your set up. If you had the right router between your modem and vera that could tell you how much bandwidth the vera is taking but probably not what app is causing it.
Please update this topic if you find out the culprit.
I did activate Ergy, but I don’t remember when. The other settings are the same, so is the system, no plugins or devices have been added. The system isn’t for surfing at all, and the system is actually located in my country house so there is no one there at all.
On my home laptop I’ve used about 6 GB since october 1, and thus it doesn’t make sense what so ever that the Vera system should use 20 GB in the same time.
You do realize that Ergy uploads its statistics to an external website, right?
No, there’s no way for Vera to monitor how its data is being used. (Linux tools exist, but they don’t come with Vera.) Also, be aware that by remotely observing the bandwidth usage, you increase the bandwidth usage. (Sounds like a quantum mechanics effect.)
Something else that I forgot to list previously. If you do not have Vera behind a firewall, or have forwarded any ports, you will have higher bandwidth consumption.
[quote=“Z-Waver, post:5, topic:189172”]You do realize that Ergy uploads its statistics to an external website, right?
Something else that I forgot to list previously. If you do not have Vera behind a firewall, or have forwarded any ports, you will have higher bandwidth consumption.[/quote]
Yes, I do realize that Ergy uploads statistics. But 2 GB per day?
This interesting there is another thread that just started today in regards to PLEG slowing down their Vera machine (see [url=http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,34611.0.html]http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,34611.0.html[/url]) I too have noticed that I have something consuming bandwidth on my Satellite IP and thought that someone in the family was watching U-Tube or movies over the internet that was quickly ruled out by shutting their devices off, the only thing left was Vera I then thought that maybe it was due to sending my camera’s (5) video up to the VERA cloud server along with the various logs. Your findings I assume is repeatable as Richard will ask for you to turn on debug and provide logs…?
Well, I’ve discovered an interesting phenomena (sic), I was see large CPU usage/swings along with shrinking available memory that ultimately was causing my VERA to reboot every few hours. By chance I came upon a thread discussing high CPU usage that was attributed to PLEX app (on my PC) and having DLNA option selected it would discover my VERA and saturated with requests (High CPU) once I deselected the option within PLEX I’m happy to say my VERA has been up and running for a day now with average CPU sitting around 20-45%. Mike ;D
Hello.
I got a veralite controller with 3 vistacam SD cameras. For about a month, the system works acceptably and I could use the network normally. I mean, navigating Internet, watching netflix in full hd, etc… I have the cameras and veralite plugged to a wireless router TL-WR841N of 300Mbps, the router is plugged to a telmex cable-modem. the ISP grants 5Mbps.
Suddenly, yesterday the veralite controller starts wasting all the bandwidth, so it became impossible to watch netflix or even navigate. I know for sure the problem is in the controller because when I unplug it the network works fine. I mean that I can have all cameras streaming to my browser and watch netflix.
Even by establishing bandwidth limits on the router, two minutes after plug in the veralite controller the network gets overload.
I have no clue on what to do or how this happen. Any advice would be appreciated.
I am curious as to what is happening here. The Vera is the only device on this port and I’ve seen this a couple of times now. Consistently running at 100k for hours on end.
Impossible to say with no other information. Are there remote devices(phones/tablets) connected and polling Vera? Cameras?
I would be suspicious of a UPnP “conversation”(loop) between Vera and some other device on your network. I’d definitely reboot Vera, expecting it to go away at least for a while. If it didn’t go away or returned, I’d investigate further. You seem to be running an NMS(which?), so you probably have the know how to put a sniffer on it and see what’s up.
One type of behaviour I noticed from my Vera’s (yes, UI5, UI7 Lite and Edge all the same) is that they respond to DHCP requests and then may get used as default gateway and thus maybe redirect a lot of network traffic. Not sure how that would impact the traffic on an out going internet connection, but who knows.
I have not managed to configure the Vera’s so they stop responding to DHCP requests, even disabling that via the OpenWrt UI in UI5 (no longer there with UI7) did not completely help.
I had another round of 100k traffic on that port for a few hours. The way I got it to stop was to disable the port the Vera was plugged into for a few minutes and then enable the port. I doesn’t appear that the traffic is egressing the network. I’ll have another sniff around the next time it shows up. I wasn’t sniffing correctly the first time and saw no traffic on the port. Turns out I need to look a bit differently and I’ll be able to see any traffic originating or destinating on the Vera IP.
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