Reply to post: Re: Unnecessary points of failure

Three-hour outage renders Nest-equipped smart homes very dumb

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: Unnecessary points of failure

>There is no fundamental reason why the logic needs to be hosted in the "cloud" or that you should need to pay any kind of subscription for this.

Not a business thinker then?

Also, given what else has been recently covered on El Reg, your solution does sound a lot like a home server, which if it were to be adopted for high street solutions, would most probably require the use of UPnP to create that "secure connection through your router"; which as we know everyone is telling us to turn off as it is a security risk...

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