From watching threads here - and my own careful testing, we know this:
1. A number of folk have WiFi issues - typically 2.4Ghz with it either appearing to fail or allow no further connections until the router is power-cycled.
2. To avoid the issue, some folk run a script that reboots their router every night - and in the past, I note users RMA'ing their routers..
2. My WiFi (and occasionally LAN) fails 6-7 days after a reboot and in very careful testing:
a) The failure occurs on BOTH Merlin and Asus firmware (Merlin from about 386.10 and Asus 3.0.0.4_386_51915).
b) On either firmware (my testing confirms) the WiFi and/or LAN failure occurs when used memory is high (>480mb).
c) In my particular case, failure occurs when the httpds -s -i br0 -p 8443 process increases in size (VSZ) to > 150M. [I either catch the problem at around this size and gracefully re-boot OR my logs show a router crash due to an out of memory condition - as confirmed by Merlin).
I am running stock firmware with no additional scripts - so it's not like I have something else going on (within the router environment).
Doing a *LOT* of online research, I notice some folk discussing browser versions/makes (Firefox/edge/chrome and the like) - and how that can affect the router, and that made me feel that I might be getting warm, given the nature of the above process using all the memory, so I tested with different browsers and made sure none were left active etc, but that didn't make a difference. So then I came up with a cunning plan..
Delete/remove the Asus router integration in Home Assistant.
Two days on, my Asus memory usage is still sub 290mb - whereas it would ordinarily have been > 380mb by this point, so simple question:
Is anyone else who suffers from the WiFi issue or crashing (not caused by dsd) running Home Assistant with the Asus integration?
1. A number of folk have WiFi issues - typically 2.4Ghz with it either appearing to fail or allow no further connections until the router is power-cycled.
2. To avoid the issue, some folk run a script that reboots their router every night - and in the past, I note users RMA'ing their routers..
2. My WiFi (and occasionally LAN) fails 6-7 days after a reboot and in very careful testing:
a) The failure occurs on BOTH Merlin and Asus firmware (Merlin from about 386.10 and Asus 3.0.0.4_386_51915).
b) On either firmware (my testing confirms) the WiFi and/or LAN failure occurs when used memory is high (>480mb).
c) In my particular case, failure occurs when the httpds -s -i br0 -p 8443 process increases in size (VSZ) to > 150M. [I either catch the problem at around this size and gracefully re-boot OR my logs show a router crash due to an out of memory condition - as confirmed by Merlin).
I am running stock firmware with no additional scripts - so it's not like I have something else going on (within the router environment).
Doing a *LOT* of online research, I notice some folk discussing browser versions/makes (Firefox/edge/chrome and the like) - and how that can affect the router, and that made me feel that I might be getting warm, given the nature of the above process using all the memory, so I tested with different browsers and made sure none were left active etc, but that didn't make a difference. So then I came up with a cunning plan..
Delete/remove the Asus router integration in Home Assistant.
Two days on, my Asus memory usage is still sub 290mb - whereas it would ordinarily have been > 380mb by this point, so simple question:
Is anyone else who suffers from the WiFi issue or crashing (not caused by dsd) running Home Assistant with the Asus integration?
