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Cake day: October 31st, 2023

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  • For two people, non-technical, not using it a ton, it is EXTREMELY high. I never even got close to that much usage with 3 kids playing youtube non-stop in the living room, while using tablets at the same time, 2 adult phones for social media Tik-Tok, etc, two gaming PC’s being used pretty much non-stop, and a two other TVs in the house with streaming services.

    My best guess is the TV’s and the RGB strip could be infected with an IoT malware such as Mirai or another one, and is being used as part of a botnet. I would either disable the TV, segregate it off the network for monitoring, or do a MAC filter on your router and block the TV and light strip from the internet for a while and see if your usage goes down. I would also update the firmware on the TV’s and change the password, and check online if your TV is one of the ones with a backdoor “service” account that can’t be removed/changed via firmware.