Good point. Though the ones I’m mainly concerned about are my 2 ecobee3 tstats, my Schlage Connect deadbolt and my Linear GD00Z-4 garage controller. Of those, the Schlage falls into the “gotta” pull the batteries category and I have had that issue occur once with the Wink. Luckily I was on-site so not a big deal.
The only way for me to let neighbors and contractors in is open the Schlage or garage door remotely which, if either need to be power cycled is a problem.
I should be able to connect to the ecobees without the hub so long as I have wifi. I say “should” because I had an issue with my upstairs tstat going offline a week before our last trip down. Ecobee support was able to see it had gone off/on-line a large number of times in the week prior to it seemingly going dead. When I arrived on site the tstat appeared fine and temps were good but I had to pull it from its’ base to power cycle it. The whole thing was a reminder of how unnerving it can be to be 600 miles away when things break and you can no longer get status updates.
Edit: Wrong Linear model number