Wyze Robot Vacuum Network Traffic Pings

[kmnrbn]

I recently changed my network setup, and I ran into the same question as posted over here:

Wyze Robot Vacuum - network question. Ports 23 and 25?

So i had a bear of a time setting up my vacuum. Phone dropping vacuum’s Wi-Fi during setup, setup failing. Finally realized I hadn’t added the vacuum to the group of Wyze devices I have in my firewall to allow it access to the ports it needs to communicate out. Finally finished setup. When I took a close look at my firewall logs, though, they show connection attempts from the vacuum to my firewall (gateway) on TCP ports 23 and 25 That’s telnet and SMTP, respectively. Why in the world is th…

I’m surprised that there aren’t responses, especially not from Wyze’ technical staff. Why is my robot pinging these ports on my gateway?