Comment Re:Local cloud? (Score 2) 57
An example where the business case is at odds with the best situation for the user.
The ideal would be a local hub that can easily provide local area "app" connectivity, with ability to work with a DNS provider, Let's encrypt, and the relevant firewalls to let it have it's own port. Regrettably every member of the industry has steered explicitly away from making this interoperable. Upnp was designed to faciltate asking for real ports, but generally considered insecure and disabled with no standardized authenticated way to do the same. We basically didn't create an ecosystem capable, because it being anti-revenue.
The money is on the side of client being a dumb slave to vendor curated internet services that happen to also let them hold your device hostage for a subscription fee.
Home Assistant Green is the closest to enable it, but you get to own having to see if the devices are willing to work with it but without cloud and you get to own the task of getting it a port going to it from the internet, it's a piece in an ecosystem that's barely willing to accommodate the use case.