Offline first is the only way to go. The cloud is always someone else's computer, and any free service will likely end before your hardware needs changing. Lu

Offline first is the only way to go. The cloud is always someone else's computer, and any free service will likely end before your hardware needs changing. Lutron switches are great too, I have them. I am not a super fan that you have to seem to have to buy their pro hub to get telnet access to the lutron switches and also not use the cloud.