Doorbell reaching out to Facebook?

I’m using a Synology router, and have my IoT devices in filtered groups that I use to whitelist valid domains as devices request them. I noticed that a newly installed Wyze Doorbell seems to have attempted to reach out to “www.facebook.com”. Is this expected behavior?

Is this a DNS lookup? Could just be an “internet is available” check

That is the actual URL requested by the device according to the router app that is monitoring it. I have only seen that happen once which is perplexing. I can’t imagine Wyze would use Facebook to verify connectivity.

It now seems the doorbell is reaching out to curl.haxx.se
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I’ve reached out to Wyze Security, but have yet to hear back.

It looks like curl.haxx.se and curl.se may be valid. Seems to be a programming API of some sort (sorry, I’m no programmer). The doorbell refused to work until I allowed traffic to those addresses.

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Thank You for the explanation!

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No problem… glad to be of help. :+1:

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