LIFX light used 1.66GB in 3 hours over OpenVPN

Using LIFX
#1

We had 5 LIFX lights installed for about 4 months without issue. Today while reviewing our bandwidth usage in our router, I notice that one of the bulbs last night between 9pm-midnight ET used 1.66GB of bandwidth.

This seems rather suspicious. Anyone have experience with Bandwidth usage on these lights?

Here is the complete breakdown of bandwidth usage between 9-midnight:

App Upload Download Total
OpenVPN 140.13 MB 1.52 GB 1.66 GB
SSL/TLS 375.86 KB 222.42 KB 598.28 KB
NTP 1.41 KB 1.41 KB 2.82 KB
DNS 376.00 Bytes 540.00 Bytes 916.00 Bytes
General 336.00 Bytes 176.00 Bytes 512.00 Bytes

Is there a way to see what these bulbs are actually doing? A log or something?

Thanks.

#2

That is extremely unusual. The bulbs don’t have nearly enough computing power to run an OpenVPN tunnel. As far as I know we haven’t implemented OpenVPN on them at all. All the other bandwidth totals you listed are what I would expect.

Are you able to capture some packets for me so I can analyse what is going on in more detail? You should also contact our support team at support@lifx.com.

#3

Thanks @daniel_hall

I’ll send an email to support and see if we can sort out where the strangeness comes from.

#4

Let me know your case number when you have it and I’ll make sure it reaches one of our engineers. You can PM me here by replying to the PM I sent when you joined the Developer Zone.