Plus, devices like that are almost guaranteed to become garbage very rapidly when the vendor decides to stop operating that central command server, wherever it is.  And unless you&#x27;re paying a maintenance fee, they&#x27;re going to cut that off pretty quickly once they stop selling new units of that particular model.<p>It&#x27;s the biggest reason why I&#x27;m skeptical about all things IoT: too much &quot;cloud&quot; without an SLA or any guarantee of longevity on the service side.