Posted on Tue, 18 Mar 2025
Even more efficient client script
One year ago we have introduced our websocket-based python script for our users with metered connection. Websocket-based script was using only around 4MB per day as opposed to our https based script that was consuming up to 100 MB per day. The drawback was that it needed at least python 3.6 or newer to run.
We have now completely rewritten our server and also alongside changed the python client so that our new python client (version 620 and above) uses less than 1 MB per day (around ~400 kb per day)! The new client script uses less than 4x data than the previous one and almost 200 times less than the https one.
When downloading python script for your client you can now choose between 3 python scripts:
As with the previous client the question which script to use depends on your setup. If you only have python 2.7 on your system then the answer is the obvious - use the https/python2 script.
If you have python 3 or newer, you can choose between https and sockets script version. In that case please refer to the "Which client script should I use?" question on our faq page.