Bredbandskollen, Internet speed, CLI

Im using NodeRed together with Speedtest by Ookla but just the other day it wasn't showing the right data so it was time for "Bredbandskollen", the command line version.

Bredbandskollen has always been a reliable source when testing internet speed. I'm using their WEB-site and the iPhone app and it have always worked very well.

This post will show how to plot data in a graph according to the picture.

Installing

Precompiled

Info regarding downloading the command is found here in Swedish. I'm running a Raspberry Pi(RPi) with 32 bit OS so used the following commands to activate the command

wget https://frontend.bredbandskollen.se/download/bbk_cli_linux_armhf-1.0

sudo cp bbk_cli_linux_armhf-1.0 /usr/bin/bbk_cli

Compile yourself

The source code is found here.

On my RPi the following commands did the job

wget https://github.com/dotse/bbk/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

unzip master.zip

cd bbk-master/src/cli

make

sudo cp cli /usr/bin/bbk_cli

Check installation

Run the command "bbk_cli" to check.

NodeRed implementation

Here you can find the command line options and I used the "--quiet" option where you will get the data in one line separated with a space.

The NodeRed flow, "ISP_speedtest_BBK_NR.json", can be downloaded here. The flow runs every 20 minutes checking our Mobile 5G receiver.