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Home automation.... such a joke in this day and age. Standards and manufacturers are all over the place.

In 1989, I came up with a Macintosh-based home automation system with a custom Hypercard interface. I went on a road show with Apple salespeople to pitch it to builders for inclusion in new, high priced tract homes. Back then, it was costly at about $3,500 per system, but it had all sorts of features, including connection to the local public school system for school monitoring, and of course, all the electrical on/off capabilities to control your home. The builders were concerned with every nickel, so it never took off. We were close to getting it off the ground in Victorville, California, but came up short. I can only imagine how far it would have progressed by now.