I originally started that way too but ZigBee has been super reliable for me and faster than my Z-wave network. I think it really depends on what devices you have and if one is misbehaving.

Seriously. Do ANYTHING before letting him send you somewhere like here: https://elan.school/

Yeah, at this point it seems the arrangement is that he pays for her studies and lodging in return for doing all the housework.

Whether that’s a good deal or not is up to her. I can’t see it helping their relationship, but he doesn’t sound great in that department anyway.

I’m blocking my bridge’s access to the internet right now, just in case they push an update for this. I never use the Hue app anyway.

Really? I’m intrigued… VERY intrigued.

I’ve had an ecobee for five years and it’s been great… EXCEPT for that when they were doing a server migration or something a few years back. I swear for several months it was completely unreliable with Google Assistant and the Android App not being able to reach it half the time.

Like the OP said, it uses an external call to cloud servers and you have to trust that those servers will stay online and be reliable. It’s been rock solid for the last few years so I think I was just part of some growing pains, but my god I was pissed during that time and about to buy a Z-wave thermostat.