I have about 17 active PixelBlaze projects running around the clock. Recently I noticed some sort of instability on the WiFi network. I was suggested to check a network for potentially flooding with broadcast messages. Sure, WireShark immediately revealed gazillions of broadcast messages. All they are coming from PixelBlase devices:
A follower will stop broadcasting is discovery beacon packet, but that isn’t likely going to help.
Each Pixelblaze does a broadcast once a second which is how both other Pixelblazes and the app can find them on the network. It’s a very small packet, and uses very little bandwidth. Thats 56 bytes including all the frame headers. With 17 PB, thats all of 952 bytes a second, a tiny fraction of even the slowest wifi network possible.
ARP broadcasts are normal networking for anything that uses IP addresses, just devices looking for other devices, and you will have tons of those just having devices on the network.
