Re: What?
Typically this is to get round those age old problems of users and usability.
To communicate with your home they need to know where it is so IP, then which device so port forwarding. I’m more than willing to go through and set it up but most wouldn’t have the first clue so they decided to solve the problem by having the device check for commands from a server and the user to send commands to the server. It’s the same with Nest, Alexa, smartthings, hue etc.
It’s not an immediate evil capitalist data capture but obviously if they can sell that too then you bet they will
Biting the hand that feeds IT
