Hello,
does anyone knows why osmc network activity is starting every day at about 4:30 in the early morning with continously receiving about 512 kiB/s and transmitting about 80 kiB/s? See the attached metrics.
No without logs nobody would know!
Nothing special in the kodi.log at 4:30
2024-12-27 04:16:26.305 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadEpgEntries - Loaded '2591' EPG entries.
2024-12-27 04:16:26.307 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadEPG - EPG Loaded - 110 (ms)
2024-12-27 04:26:58.274 T:5630 info <general>: WEATHER: Downloading weather
2024-12-27 04:57:01.891 T:8776 info <general>: WEATHER: Downloading weather
2024-12-27 05:27:05.825 T:9124 info <general>: WEATHER: Downloading weather
2024-12-27 05:51:30.224 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadChannelEpgs - Loaded '26' EPG channels.
2024-12-27 05:51:30.268 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadEpgEntries - Loaded '2591' EPG entries.
2024-12-27 05:51:30.270 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadEPG - EPG Loaded - 113 (ms)
2024-12-27 05:57:09.743 T:9457 info <general>: WEATHER: Downloading weather
2024-12-27 06:16:31.112 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadChannelEpgs - Loaded '26' EPG channels.
2024-12-27 06:16:31.156 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
.iptvsimple - LoadEpgEntries - Loaded '2591' EPG entries.
2024-12-27 06:16:31.157 T:399 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr
Well than only option is tcpdump at 4:30
Probably checking for updates.
Besides a tcpdump you can also try to install the package iftop. I tlooks like your unknown bandwidth usage is constant for hours. So, sudo apt install iftop and a view with that tool should at least answer the question whether this is related to a meadiacenter/kodi target at all.
If you identified the local and remote ports eating your network bandwidth, try netstat -tup to isolate the related PID/program name.
thank you so far.
i’ll try iftop, starting at 4:00 in the early morning, running for 7200 seconds in non-iteractive mode, and i hope to get the answer for the receiving datastream by looking up the cumulative value in the iftop log.
about 240 TCP connections, one active with kodi.bin, the rest in TIME_WAIT. All connected to two Google Servers (142.250.*)
Suspects: Kaster Screensaver (Picture-Source: Google Photos), YouTube AddOn.
Another osmc box (without active Kaster Screensaver or configured YouTube Addon) has 3 TCP connections. After Kaster Activation, a connection comes up to the IP-Range from Google. My guess is: Kaster is responsable for the continous Datastream, while connected to Chromecast Google Infrastructure, downloading the next Picture.
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