For a while I felt silly sticking with HomeSeer while sites like IFTTT started springing up offering much of the functionality I had for free. I still prefer l

For a while I felt silly sticking with HomeSeer while sites like IFTTT started springing up offering much of the functionality I had for free. I still prefer local control for stability. Internet outages are rare, but twice they have happened when I am out of town and exactly when I really need certain aspects of my automation to work. And I always suspected these services wouldn't be free forever - and what a surprise, they eventually had to figure out a way to make money. If you don't want to go commercial like HomeSeer there are many other open source projects like HomeAssistant that are still relatively friendly and provide great functionality. The RasbperryPi has really been a game changer offering cheap local processing for very cheap. I don't mind using cloud for remote access, but I would never want all my logic running remotely in the cloud. Been burned too many times by services either changing with zero or little notice, or as I stated earlier, internet issues. With projects like HomeBridge, gluing different standards and universes together is getting easier which also negates a lot of the necessity for things like IFTTT if you are willing to trade some time for convenience of just subbing to a service like it. Choice is always good :)