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For telemetry on a washing machine, it is enormous.

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

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

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

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.