re: Smart switches and locks for new construction

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i'm using hubitat
so you are using a hub....

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well yes, the question was how 'local' and 'independent' i truly am with so-called local control.

sure a few scheduled things work as long as they are triggered by other local things but lets face it, there are alot of attractive wifi and other types of devices out there and when you start to mix them...you're going to have to call on the API for that WiFi doodad which means a trip through the cloud; you won't be able to talk to it locally.

you cant even use your hue bulbs locally and there's the damn hue hub, sitting right next to hubitat on the shelf.

thats just the way of it. we all have a mix of cloud & local stuff unless you just RELIGIOUSLY buy only zigbee and zwave and that's not possible.

so long story short, i hate it all. local control is a myth and any type of complex routines is going to rely on at least one web-based hop along the way.

its like my plex server; most of the time it will work when my internet is out but occasionally it wants to 'phone home' and reauthenticate me and when that happens its as useless as anything else.