[persolb]

It is mostly a matter of time. I have home assistant running locally, but started paying nabu casa to serve as the remote access bridge after my homegrown external site died when I upgraded my internet. I could fix it myself… but it was faster to just subscribe.

The other issue is that some cloud services are just better than what I can do on a raspberry pi. I’d rather get voice recognition from Google for ‘free’ than pay electricity and time for a server to always be on.

[plagiarist]

That perspective almost makes sense for me, if you still have control over your stack you're paying to make it accessible while out. They can go down, go bankrupt, or ban you and not break your house.