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And reason #458 why I am skipping the whole "IoT revolution" in my home.

I consider this motivation for DIY.

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There are a good amount of IoT devices that work offline and don't use public internet at all.

I specifically buy devices that aren't bound to the Internet and I've found a good amount.

Where do you typically find them? I've had very little luck with that

For one... Philips Hue. The lights connect to a Zigbee base station, which has a local API for controlling the system.

(The base station does connect to a WAN server for remote control, but you could always block that at your firewall. The system works entirely fine in local mode.)

The last time that I looked, the Hue/Zigbee/whatever protocols were still fighting over each other to become the standard. Has that settled down?

I'm pretty sure by definition IoT devices use the internet..

Once you get past library installation problems, RPis are great for this type of thing.

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