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Upon booting this device immediately starts making network connections to servers in China. (I see connections to servers in Hangzhou and Beijing as well as servers owned by Baidu and Amazon in the US. Some of these are on tcp port 80 and others on 8020.) There is no warning about this in the documentation or on Pyle's web site, and no option to turn off these connections. It is extremely unscrupulous for Pyle to do this. As long as your firewall allows outgoing connections, and almost all of them do, then this little agent can give those servers access to the local network. I expect (and hope) Pyle would claim this is something innocuous, but for all you know this device is opening your home network to foreign actors. Unless you have the expertise to block this device at your firewall, you absolutely should weigh whether or not the utility it provides is worth having unknown and uncontrolled connections to foreign servers from inside your home.