The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

Many smart gadgets route their app control and smart features through the maker's cloud servers, so when the company switches those servers off, the smarts vanish. Weber just did that to the June Oven, which now works only as a regular oven. Devices that also speak local standards like Matter, Zigbee or Thread can keep running from a hub in your home, because they never needed a distant server.

Summary edited by the HowTechMoves team, based on reporting by The Verge.