> Now even though it's connected to my local wifi, I can't use the things like having an alarm on my phone since it can't connect to the internet. NAT is parti

> Now even though it's connected to my local wifi, I can't use the things like having an alarm on my phone since it can't connect to the internet. NAT is partially to thank for that. ... there is pretty much no normie user supportable way of having a device talk to your phone short of having them both phone home to some cloud server. They could support both direct connections for easy cases and expert users AND the cloud nonsense-- but then they'd have to implement their connectivity twice and they'll still end up with more support calls from users in the wrong mode.