@FluhartyML If you want privacy, use Apple to manage the home. Your AppleTV will do this. They’re the only company I’d trust. For security, make sure your firewall/ router does not have uPnP turned on, and do NOT forward any ports to any IoT things. Consider making an entirely separate subnet and firewalling it off for the IoT devices. Or if you don’t have advanced networking in your house, use the three dumb routers solution:
https://pcper.com/2016/08/steve-gibsons-three-router-solution-to-iot-insecurity/ .