Local v2 Hub Functionality

[johnconstantelo]

There are quite a few discussions discussing this. Some devices and apps (1) are local, but more to come as we’ve been told.

How to know Local App vs. Cloud App in Hub 2.0?

Forgive me if this topic has already been discussed somewhere. I did a bit of a search and couldn’t turn anything up. I’m going to be moving to Hub 2.0 sometime next week and would like to try and limit myself to local apps as much as possible in the hopes of improved stability. But, I’m trying to figure out what apps are local apps… stuff that will run off the Hub completely. It’s easy to exclude a number of them: Anything that requires info from the web (sunrise/set times, info from a outside source like IFTTT, smartapps that interface with things in the cloud). I’ve also heard than any custom app I write will be cloud based, even if it doesn’t need any Internet resources. But, what about an “approved” 3rd party smart app? Can those be local? So, hoping to clear up my confusion, …