the problem is that the four big consumer z-wave hubs all have the cloud entanglement issue. Wink, Smartthings, Amazon and Vera all sell you a piece of hardwar

the problem is that the four big consumer z-wave hubs all have the cloud entanglement issue. Wink, Smartthings, Amazon and Vera all sell you a piece of hardware that only works as long as they're providing their free cloud service. It's completely unsustainable in it's current model. Vera purports to be completely local, but as of UIv8, they've made all communications steer through their cloud proxy service to enable a seamless mobile UI at the expense of reliability, latency, security and sustainability. I've been working on moving my Vera controlled zwave network to home-assistant.io and an aeon labs zwave USB gateway, but haven't made much progress because zwave devices all rely on inputting rhythmic patterns of button presses locally to reprogram them.