My smart home strategy is pretty simple: nothing that requires internet connection to work. Only local devices. WiFi where possible over anything low power (BT,

My smart home strategy is pretty simple: nothing that requires internet connection to work. Only local devices. WiFi where possible over anything low power (BT, Zigbee, ZWave), wired over wireless wherever possible (e.g 1-wire). Policy for anything I include is that it must fail like an escalator not an elevator - a dumb switch for example, not a light that can’t be switched on. This means smart lightswitches, not smart lights. It’s a lot of work to configure and maintain but tools like home assistant, proxmox and docker at least makes it somewhat manageable. It’s still a pain though, and it feels like a special kind of masochism to tinker with. I think it’s entirely possible that an average user who isn’t a programmer or willing to pull a neutral wire here and there could have a decent “smart home” set up by themselves some time within the next three or four decades…