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      carbonejf
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      Hi,
      Great script, il works well for me, but I ghave a little problem with speedtest.
      I don't check every day the speed, and sometime it "stop" to work.
      The reason is that speedtest don't send result because it s waiting that I accept the licence.
      So i must connect with putty on my pfsence, start speedtest and validate licence:

      speedtest
      ==============================================================================
      
      Ookla collects certain data through Speedtest that may be considered
      personally identifiable, such as your IP address, unique device
      identifiers or location. Ookla believes it has a legitimate interest
      to share this data with internet providers, hardware manufacturers and
      industry regulators to help them understand and create a better and
      faster internet. For further information including how the data may be
      shared, where the data may be transferred and Ookla's contact details,
      please see our Privacy Policy at:
      
             http://www.speedtest.net/privacy
      
      ==============================================================================
      
      Do you accept the license? [type YES to accept]: YES
      License acceptance recorded. Continuing.
      
      

      Do you now a solution to stop to ask me to accept licence every month (or something like this)?

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        MarcO42 @carbonejf
        last edited by

        @carbonejf did you install it?
        Like:

        pkg install py37-speedtest-cli-2.1.3
        
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          carbonejf @MarcO42
          last edited by carbonejf

          @marco42 Sorry I did it a long time ago and I don't rememberhow I install it :(
          I installed a package yes, but maybe not this one

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            MarcO42 @carbonejf
            last edited by

            @carbonejf Maybe you update or uninstall/reinstall to get the latest version? That could help.

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              carbonejf @MarcO42
              last edited by

              @marco42 I don't use this version, my speedtest is: Speedtest by Ookla 1.0.0.2 (5ae238b) FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE amd64

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                MarcO42 @carbonejf
                last edited by

                @carbonejf Ok, that one I don't know, sorry.

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                  patrick.pesegodinski @icewraithuk
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                  @icewraithuk how you import the "urllib2" in the pfsense?

                  I don't search for install.

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                    patrick.pesegodinski
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                    @icewraithuk said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                    myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"
                    baseURL = 'https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=%s' % myAPI
                    print baseURL</your>

                    The command "your' doens't work

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                      provels @patrick.pesegodinski
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                      @patrick-pesegodinski said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                      myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"

                      myAPI="put_key_here"

                      PS - That post was the only one that user ever made, and besides it was about 6 years ago.

                      Peder

                      MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
                      BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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                        patrick.pesegodinski @provels
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                        @provels said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                        @patrick-pesegodinski said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                        myAPI="<your api="" key="" goes="" here,="" in="" the="" quotes="">"

                        myAPI="put_key_here"

                        PS - That post was the only one that user ever made, and besides it was about 6 years ago.

                        I think the command for python 3.8 was changed. I connect with this command:

                        import urllib.request

                        baseURL = 'https://api.thingspeak.com/update?api_key=MY_KEY=0'

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                          Gertjan @patrick.pesegodinski
                          last edited by

                          @patrick-pesegodinski said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                          how you import the "urllib2" in the pfsense?

                          Here :
                          /usr/local/lib/python3.9/urllib
                          /usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib

                          It's already there.
                          If it isn't, mention your pfSense version.
                          Then I'll tell you to upgrade ;)

                          Install FreeBSD packages (not from Netgate) yourself on pfSense : that's not a good idea.

                          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                            chrcoluk @Gertjan
                            last edited by chrcoluk

                            For modern pfSense, I just did this. (new download link also)

                            fetch -o speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
                            chmod +x speedtest-cli

                            Then edit first line of speedtest-cli to the following.

                            #!/usr/bin/env python3.8
                            

                            Should run at this point, no need to install extra dependency packages.

                            As Jim said, it might be slower than from a fast client device as pfSense is optimised for routing.

                            I got about 600 down on the cli, but then immediately did a test on my PC which got 954mbit down (gigabit connection). But I think having this as an option to help diagnose issues can be useful hence I installed it.

                            pfSense CE 2.7.2

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                              Gertjan @chrcoluk
                              last edited by

                              @chrcoluk said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

                              For modern pfSense

                              Not for my 23.01 then, as it doesn't have python3.8

                              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                asulwer
                                last edited by

                                with some minor changes this worked for me on version 24.03-release

                                pkg search speedtest
                                py311-speedtest-cli-2.1.3      Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth
                                

                                use this command to install

                                pkg update ; pkg install -y py311-speedtest-cli && curl -o /usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/speedtest.widget.php https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aln-1/pfsense-speedtest-widget/master/speedtest.widget.php
                                
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