@ernestdeleon I get the impulse but I went the other direction. Everything in my house is connected, it's just all local. Home Assistant, Zigbee devices, wired PoE cameras. Nothing phones home, nothing needs the internet to work. Modem dies? Everything still runs. I keep spares for anything that's a bottleneck, router, Zigbee hub, extra cameras. Swap and go. The problem isn't smart, it's cloud. Once you cut that out, connected stuff is actually great. Took me a few years of pain to get there though.