Part of the reason why I went with Lutron Caseta, only to learn their hubs do not include telnet access on the basic model to allow private management of the sw

Part of the reason why I went with Lutron Caseta, only to learn their hubs do not include telnet access on the basic model to allow private management of the switches. Still some workarounds for it, but the need to register a cloud account initially remains unimpressed. The cloud is always someone else's computer, the cloud always costs someone $, and over time, there will be less incentive to provide it.