Smart homes and vegetable peelers
A smart home that is reliant on the cloud is dumb.<p>Self-hosted is the only acceptable alternative here where even the raspberry pi has more processing power to run hundreds of homes.<p>A simple service to route mobile apps through the potential NAT is the only thing the cloud should be needed for. Obviously downloading &quot;drivers&quot;&#x2F;configurations are a valid user case but that&#x27;s part of the setup-process.<p>Not saying that everyone should tinkle with a RPI but it is trivial to create a more user friendly device. The fact that Amazon, Google, Apple etc. don&#x27;t even attempt this is just a consequence of them being hell bent on making money from crap.