u/SequentialHustle — reddlx

I saw someone else mention they did this. Earlier today I blocked all incoming/outgoing network requests to China and a few other countries. Flow 2 still works perfectly fine. All these outgoing requests were from 1 vacuum run.

Interesting the firmware has the IPs hardcoded.

www.wshifen.com (103.235.46.102 / .115) — this is the Chinese mirror/CDN domain Baidu uses internally. Many Chinese IoT vendors route telemetry through Baidu Cloud, so device traffic ends up resolving here. It's not malicious per se, but it's a known telemetry endpoint.

139.159.191.34, 139.159.254.209, 116.205.184.69 — Huawei Cloud (139.159.0.0/16 and 116.205.0.0/16 are Huawei ranges).

8.135.63.80 — Alibaba Cloud. 122.9.x.x, 110.41.172.154, 113.45.242.21 — also Huawei Cloud / China Telecom ranges.

u/SequentialHustle — 8 days ago

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I’ve had my device since 4/22. How has it uploaded nearly 5gigs of data to China? Is it sending a live feed every time it runs or something? The past 7 days alone it's 2GB upload to Aliexpress. 2.77GB total traffic.

I compared it to my Dreame network activity and there is barely any upload activity on that device over the same period of time.

u/SequentialHustle — 10 days ago

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Just got a follow up email after my initial Flow 2 video and complaint was forwarded to the technical team.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/NARWAL/comments/1sus90k/loud_mopping_sound/

Our technical team has confirmed that the sound you are hearing is completely normal.

Your robot is equipped with a live water track system, which continuously scrapes and cleans the mop during operation to ensure a fresher and more effective mopping performance. At the same time, it also collects and recycles the dirty water.

The noise you noticed is the dirty water collection process, which is expected behavior and not a malfunction. Please rest assured that the device is operating as designed.

I don't really buy this response. Most of the time it only makes this sound right after it leaves the dock for 5-10 minutes then stops. Why would it only be collecting dirty water right after leaving the dock lol.

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u/SequentialHustle — 17 days ago