I don't know why it's "sub optimal" to use the cloud from an isolated network. Can you elaborate?
-mel beckman > On Oct 9, 2016, at 10:28 AM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" > <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:31:54 -0000, Mel Beckman said: > >> I just bought a $20 Lacrosse remote RF temperature sensor hub for home, the >> GW-1000U. It does the usual IoT things: after you plug it in, it gets a DHCP >> address and phones home, then you register it using a smartphone on the same >> LAN, which I'm guessing finds the device via a broadcast and then configures >> the hub with my Lacrosse account info. All communication is thereafter >> through >> the cloud. > > That last sentence is sub-optimal. And as you note, things go downhill from > there....
