I mean not to defend the telemetry philosphy (my smart home setup is local only with a couple of tell-tale heart exceptions[1]) but I'd expect that any cheap se

I mean not to defend the telemetry philosphy (my smart home setup is local only with a couple of tell-tale heart exceptions[1]) but I'd expect that any cheap sensor net where your trying to infer data from indirect sensors would be grabbing as much data as possible especially if it didn't have strong local processing. But yeah don't buy products that don't work local only, if they require online the temptation will be to great at some point to abuse that requirement. [1] They're slowly driving me insane and I'll destroy them for the peace of mind at some point if an update doesn't brick them first.