Thanks for thinking through all this, I appreciate the time.

For me, it’s a privacy issue, which is why it lives in a room we rarely hang out in. It’s our only IoT device, which the spouse uses for Spotify and we both use for timers and reminders. We’ve had it for years, so it’s just sort of settled into a low tier of constant usefulness. Though I’ll check the open source Home Assistant to see what options might also be out there. But I wouldn’t want to add layers like constant location tracking relayed to Amazon after doing a lot to cut them off from that data.

I do like the timer on the socket idea. Might do that.