Hi! I recently bought a Unifi Dream Router for my home. This router measures the data “used” by the different clients and applications. It came to my attention that my Homey is the most active client in my network and uses a lot of data (see screenshot). It hasn’t caused any problems on my network …

It does. But i don’t know if the “Local Network Activity (24hrs)” is part of the “Internet Activity (24hrs)”. How it read it is that the internet activity in the last 24 hours is 22,4GB in total from which 16,3GB locally and 6,1GB to the internet. Hue could explain a big part of it. I have 26 light…

[image] Thomas_Doorn: But I understand that there is still no fix for this? The issue is that Homey uses an outdated method of updating device statuses, by polling the bridge every 5 or 10 seconds, and if the returned data is substantial this adds up quickly. Hue also has push support, where…

SmartThings2 will be polling the server on a regular basis (default is 5 seconds) but each response is only a couple of hundred bytes, depending on how many devices there are.

[Screenshot 2023-01-29 154646] I have the same Unifi UDR, absolutely love it and leagues better than my previous few which were Netgear. Fairly sure the Hue app is the source of the local traffic and as that isn’t causing any trouble I don’t worry about it. It appears that in our house we’re havin…

Homey most active client on my router

Questions & Help

robertklep January 29, 2023, 1:16pm 2

Does this also count local traffic? The Hue app is known, and has been known for a long time, to transfer a lot of data.

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