Nodes produce heavy network load

[sascha108]

After trigger a node (speak), Node Red produce over 18000 Requests per hour to amazon. I see it in Pihole statistic. With wireshark i see multiple small pakets.
Only restart Node Red service helps to normalizing network traffic.

[bwims]

No wonder the original developer has dropped it like a hot potato...

[spartandrew18]

After trigger a node (speak), Node Red produce over 18000 Requests per hour to amazon. I see it in Pihole statistic. With wireshark i see multiple small pakets.
Only restart Node Red service helps to normalizing network traffic.

How did you find this information? My internet usage has gone up recently and was wondering if this may be causing some of it.

Also, can you see if any of the other node types send an enormous amount of data as well? Im curious to see if it is just the speak node or if it applies to all the nodes in the integration.

[sascha108]

Hello spartandrew18,

I found out with PiHole https://pi-hole.net/ an ad blocker based on dns-filter. There is a lot of statistic there, so i see this many requests. However, the amount of data transferred is quite small.
I switched to "node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-v2" (about 5 weeks ago) and have since observed the statistic, the problem mentioned has no longer occurred. Now "only" under 4000 requests are recorded per day.
I currently have 5 "alexa routines" (voice output, media control) and 6 "alexa echo" nodes (status query, command) active.
I can't find any direct connection between the number of nodes and the number of requests.