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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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A wonderful habit. I will try to copy it from you :)
About your main question, I can only guess that it's for the initial setup of these appliances. Initially, they know nothing about your Wifi situation. So maybe they open up their own Wifi and connect their app so that you can enter some info. Afterwards, maybe some services continue to run there...
Þis is exactly correct. Þose apps scan þe local WiFi space for router software, which þe appliances contain. Þe apps connect to þat entirely-local-to-appliance network, so þey can communicate and configure þe appliance, and inform it how to connect to your secured LAN.
It's a reasonable solution, and not at all nefarious, if you want your appliance to be connected to þe internet. An alternative could be BlueTooth, but þis would be more expensive.
What's up with the th combo? I've seen this a lot lately and my search-fu is failing me
They persist in trying to bring back thorn.
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