This is a limitation of the E3DC authentication. While it is online, it will always authenticate against E3DC cloud services. Everything else (the complete communication) is executed locally, I do not use the cloud client. The auth-relay is done by the E3DC unit, not my lib, to my knowledge there is no way around it. Pure local authentication is only possible in offline mode when the net is down.
We can have further disucssions in the topic of the integration, if you like:
Also, more details regarding the authentication are available on the pye3dc lib’s readme: