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I quite like how ikea did it. You can control everything with local wireless remotes and be completely unnetworked. Or you can buy the hub which gives you app control on the local network only. No servers involved. And finally you can connect the hub to Apple/google services for full internet access.

It’s truely the best, everyone gets what they want.

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It’s called zigbee (soon to be Thread). It’s wonderful. And if you set something up like home assistant with ZHA or zigbee2mqtt, then you can use most zigbee products together with just the one coordinator (instead of being tied to only ikea or only hue, etc. or using multiple hubs).

>You can control everything with local wireless remotes and be completely underworked. Or you can buy the hub which gives you app control on the local network only.

Yep, as I described: ” It means I need to use an app that communicates only through networking technology like Bluetooth or Thread or a secured API.”

As mentioned by someone else, that’s what Zigbee and Thread allows, and Apple jumped on it with HomeKit pretty fast. There’s a lot of open source tools to help tie your Zigbee, Thread, HomeKit and other things together very easily, and where nothing is reaching out to the net, nor can the net reach back in.

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