All these DYI LoT projects assume one of two things: * you are connected to your home Wifi * you are routing all your mobile traffic to an always-on hom

All these DYI LoT projects assume one of two things: * you are connected to your home Wifi * you are routing all your mobile traffic to an always-on home VPN This is where they fail for me and Rings, Nests, etc win: * I do NOT want to route ALL my mobile data traffic through at-home VPN while im out and about. * I have an iPhone which does not allow app-specific VPN configuration * I want to be able to get instant real-time video feeds in case of a doorbell events. I have multiple internet-of-things hardware and software including * Ring * Wyze * Abode * Home Assistant * Blue Iris And one thing is common: cloud-based services(Ring, Wyze, Abode) are faster and easier to use remotely then local-only Lan-of-Things products such as Home Assistant and Blue Iris which require one of two assumptions I listed above. In other words, in order to connect to my local-only LoT products, i have to turn on my VPN and then open up the app and then to remember to turn it off when Im done. This is too slow and takes too much efforts and thus turns me back to cloud-based services. Im not even talking about training the software to ignore things like wind moving leaves and tree branches and to only pay attention to what can be identified as humans