[ta8964586]

I suspect the answer is not a technical one, but a business one. I'm guessing that adding local-only usage features just aren't profitable enough (not enough increase in market share by implementing them) for Ring to justify the effort.

[supergeek133]

Running a platform costs money, many IoT products turn cost negative quickly if you don't introduce some type of value added service/ongoing revenue.

That being said I've always been a huge proponent of allowing some type of local control. Think of people in the automation market (Control 4, CEDIA type stuff) where it would simply be faster.

Even Google/Amazon allow local lambda function type activities that would be much better experience if we allowed local control.

But that also changes your security landscape.