Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box

luckman212

@RaidArray Are those instructions back up online somewhere by chance?

MarcO42

Hi,
this long discussion was nearly wat I'm locking for.
But in the end I build it on my own...and maybe someone is interested in this. Here is what I did:
I have mounted a USB drive (not really necessary for everybody) and build a script that can called by cron.
This script is parsing the response from speedtest-cli on directly on the WAN interface and writes a log file. From this log file I took the last 7 lines (cron is running every day) and create a /usr/local/www/js/speettest_cli.js as data file for my chart from https://www.chartjs.org.
And here is the result:

The tooltip is a mouse over and you can also hide single elements like this:

The fact that you see only the 03.03. and 04.03. is that I created yesterday and these are just placeholder until the new data arrived.

Here you can finde all files.

speedtest.zip

Feel free to use it. Think everyone have to adapt all the paths in the \usr\local\bin\speedtest.sh
Also in this file you have to set you place for the speedtest...like speedtest-cli --server 16688

Cheers
MarcO

lastb0isct

Does anyone have the speedtest.py still? I can't seem to find it.

luckman212

@lastb0isct Have you tried...

# pkg search speedtest
# pkg install py27-speedtest-cli

if pkg gives you a Shared object "libcryptoauth.so.3" not found, required by "pkg" error, try

# pkg-static install py27-speedtest-cli

provels

@lastb0isct said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

Does anyone have the speedtest.py still? I can't seem to find it.

It comes with the package when you install it. SSH to your box and run:

pkg search speedtest

[2.4.4-RELEASE][root@fw.workgroup]/root: pkg search speedtest
py37-speedtest-cli-2.1.1       Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth

Then run

pkg install py37-speedtest-cli-2.1.1

Have fun!

lastb0isct

Where does the speedtest.py live after installation?

provels

@lastb0isct said in Speedtest CLI. Run speedtest on pfSense box:

Where does the speedtest.py live after installation?

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages

adamoutler

Run
pkg search speedtest
py37-speedtest-cli-2.1.1 Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth
We can now see the package we need to install
pkg install py37-speedtest-cli-2.1.1
then run with
/usr/local/bin/speedtest

aln

I've created a widget to run speedtest directly from your pfSense dashboard
https://github.com/aln-1/pfsense-speedtest-widget

provels

@aln Hey, it works! Nice job! :)

johnpoz

Pretty slick.. Nice work..

Not really a fan of running speedtest on pfsense itself, its always better to do them "thru" pfsense (from a client behind).. But yeah could see how it could come in handy for some.

Allowing for some settings, like picking server, etc.. would be even extra slick ;)

2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/: speedtest -h
usage: speedtest [-h] [--no-download] [--no-upload] [--single] [--bytes]
                 [--share] [--simple] [--csv] [--csv-delimiter CSV_DELIMITER]
                 [--csv-header] [--json] [--list] [--server SERVER]
                 [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--mini MINI] [--source SOURCE]
                 [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--secure] [--no-pre-allocate]
                 [--version]

Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --no-download         Do not perform download test
  --no-upload           Do not perform upload test
  --single              Only use a single connection instead of multiple. This
                        simulates a typical file transfer.
  --bytes               Display values in bytes instead of bits. Does not
                        affect the image generated by --share, nor output from
                        --json or --csv
  --share               Generate and provide a URL to the speedtest.net share
                        results image, not displayed with --csv
  --simple              Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
  --csv                 Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
                        in CSV format. Speeds listed in bit/s and not affected
                        by --bytes
  --csv-delimiter CSV_DELIMITER
                        Single character delimiter to use in CSV output.
                        Default ","
  --csv-header          Print CSV headers
  --json                Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
                        in JSON format. Speeds listed in bit/s and not
                        affected by --bytes
  --list                Display a list of speedtest.net servers sorted by
                        distance
  --server SERVER       Specify a server ID to test against. Can be supplied
                        multiple times
  --exclude EXCLUDE     Exclude a server from selection. Can be supplied
                        multiple times
  --mini MINI           URL of the Speedtest Mini server
  --source SOURCE       Source IP address to bind to
  --timeout TIMEOUT     HTTP timeout in seconds. Default 10
  --secure              Use HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with
                        speedtest.net operated servers
  --no-pre-allocate     Do not pre allocate upload data. Pre allocation is
                        enabled by default to improve upload performance. To
                        support systems with insufficient memory, use this
                        option to avoid a MemoryError
  --version             Show the version number and exit
[2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/:

aln

@provels I'm glad I could contribute something back to the community.
@johnpoz the only reason to run speedtest on pfSense is to test your ISP without speed drops of other elements in your network.

adamoutler

Thank you very much, @aln!

I don't know why this isn't a stock package. Speed test on a router is a must. Thank you ever so much. This is by far my most needed package and you have just made my dreams come true.

To show my appreciation, I'd like to contribute some easy-install instructions. This short script does what you said to do. It won't install the widget if the pkg install fails. This can be run from the Diagnostics> Command Prompt > Execute Shell Command

pkg update ; pkg install -y py37-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

Please consider further development, making this an official pFSense package. I'm very happy this is now a thing and thank you ever so much.

After hitting the refresh button, it comes up blank and never shows my results. I have to refresh the page to see the results. Any ideas?

aln

@adamoutler when hitting the refresh button did it finish spinning? Can you see if there are any warning or errors in the browser's developer tools?
The widget will show an empty image initially and will cache the last speedtest results. You will be able to see them for as long as Ookla is caching them, as far as I can say this is forever.

provels

FWIW, when I ran it the second time, I also got an empty box, but every subsequent run it went fine. I just hit the chasing arrows again.

aln

I get some positive feedbacks and that's nice.
This was really quick and dirty widget. Maybe I'll take it a step further.
I'll keep you posted.

adamoutler

@aln maybe a reboot is required to reload the PHP system? It just stopped spinning and went blank.

aln

@aln new and improved version is now available
Screenshot 2020-05-21 at 01.22.12.png

aln

@adamoutler reboot should not be needed

adamoutler

@aln not sure how to activate it.
!