Everything at my house has a TLD named after the road I live on (a founding father last name). Everything at my offsite at my dads house uses TLD named after the road he lives on (a woman’s first name).
It’s both arbitrary and practical. A number systems exist at both such as proxmox. truenas. pihole. plex. So it’s a good way to tell them appart without having to differentiate them in the domain name.
Doing this with Home Assistant wouldn’t be too bad.
There is a Matter Integration for Home Assistant in Beta (Matter itself is more or less in Beta)
There really isn’t a debate. You don’t want cloud devices. What do you mean by local network? That would include your wifi. Maybe you’re talking about zigbee/wave. That would be the alternative to wifi. If I went wifi but if I did it over again i would probably look more into zigbee.
Seriously don’t make your home cloud dependant. Your actions will be slow and you’re screwed if your internet goes down.
r/homeassistant is the way to go
What do you have now? I’m guessing it’s cloud based and I won’t be at all surprised by your issue. Need a local solution.
Ubiquiti unifi Protect makes it very easy. Buy a unifi protect doorbell and cloud key gen2+ (your network video recorder).