if your IoT shares the same WiFi network as your normal devices you have already failed at security. Home Automation, and IoT should be separated at the networ

if your IoT shares the same WiFi network as your normal devices you have already failed at security. Home Automation, and IoT should be separated at the network level from everything else >>Sidewalk Is terrible. >>Ring Ring is probably the worst HA brand out there, sorry your experience with Zigbee was bad because you choose a poor implementation of it. Hell I have zigbee devices I bought of Ebay from failed companies that work better than Ring products.