>You can control everything with local wireless remotes and be completely underworked. Or you can buy the hub which gives you app control on the local network o

>You can control everything with local wireless remotes and be completely underworked. Or you can buy the hub which gives you app control on the local network only. Yep, as I described: ” It means I need to use an app that communicates only through networking technology like Bluetooth or Thread or a secured API.” As mentioned by someone else, that’s what Zigbee and Thread allows, and Apple jumped on it with HomeKit pretty fast. There’s a lot of open source tools to help tie your Zigbee, Thread, HomeKit and other things together very easily, and where nothing is reaching out to the net, nor can the net reach back in.