bbqkees wrote: If it calls home for apparently everything that is happening in your home, blocking is thus highly recommended!

Sure, but i looks like the gateway is not accessible from phone if outbound connections are blocked....doing some more test

Did anyone check if the Xiaomi gateway 'calls home' to China? I wonder how secure this gateway is, I could not find anything online about it. I did some research with a man-in-the-middle setup. It's calling home. So far I discovered the following dns/addresses/ranges: DNS requests for: ot.io.mi.com ...