Simmeltron:
Gotcha @elf , that makes sense. One thing that I have had in the forefront of my planning was the concept of local vs remote management dependencies. As I understand it, certain devices like the GE z-wave switches were local devices, so even if my wifi went down or the ST online servers were hiccuping (or vomiting), my schedules, routines, whatever you want to call them, would ultimately be managed (or at least stored) locally within my home network by the ST hub itself so I could have almost full assurance that triggers would be reliable. Perhaps I am over-simplifying how everything is configured, but I’d like to think I’m close
So close, and yet so far…
I suspect that “local processing” doesn’t work quite the way you expect. (It doesn’t work the way hardly anyone expects.) For one thing, routines do not run locally regardless of the devices included.
Since I just put up two posts on exactly that topic this morning, I don’t want to duplicate them here. Just read the following post and then the one that comes right after it in that thread.
All Smartapps run in the cloud except SmartLighting and some parts of SHM , and those only run locally if all of the devices they refer to are eligible to run locally. Routines do not run locally. No other smartapps run locally at this time, not even the ones installed from the marketplace.
You can see what smartapps on your own account are eligible to run locally by checking the links posted in the community – created wiki FAQ article:
http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=FAQ
And see the following thread for more discussion of local processing:
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