[gberger]

It's 12 bytes per second, or less than 1kB per minute. Doesn't seem like much.

[poisonborz]

For telemetry on a washing machine, it is enormous.

[jethro_tell]

That's WiFi/Bluetooth signal strength mapping amounts of data.

[Aeolun]

It uploads a novel a day. That’s a lot!

[NikkiA]

It's probably a single probe packet once a minute.

[tim--]

Which is likely what is happening here. The LG "ThinQ" washing machines do allow for remote starts: https://github.com/ollo69/ha-smartthinq-sensors/issues/234

> After 10 minutes (IIRC) in remote start mode without starting the machine goes to sleep. You must use the smartthinq_sensors.wake_up command to wake it up, then the remote_start command to start it.