I don't do the home assistant thing, but my cameras are not allowed to talk outside my network, all "smart" crap is disabled if I'm stuck with it for some reason, and I run Pi-Hole to block anything and everything strange. One of my network extenders was freaking pinging some poor NTP server to check for connectivity every few seconds...really? That was blocked. Why does it matter if it is actually connected to the internet or not? You find so many strange things with Pi-Hole.
I don't do the home assistant thing, but my cameras are not allowed to talk outside my network, all "smart" crap is disabled if I'm stuck with it for some reason, and I run Pi-Hole to block anything and everything strange. One of my network extenders was freaking pinging some poor NTP server to check for connectivity every few seconds...really? That was blocked. Why does it matter if it is actually connected to the internet or not? You find so many strange things with Pi-Hole.
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