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Originally Posted by motion
Home automation.... such a joke in this day and age. Standards and manufacturers are all over the place.
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This. I have looked into this and Motion is exactly right. It's all over the place. Each system out there is good at one thing, then sucks at everything else. Noone makes a good system that does everything you want.
I want one App/system that will control my lighting, alarm, HVAC, garage doors, sprinkler system, fridge/appliances, TV/DVR, and water heater. Each of these individual manufacturers currently have a way to do that but then I have to buy 10 different systems to get total automation.
Nest is a neat thermostat but it only works for very, very basic systems. I have a two furnace, four zone, humidity controlled HVAC system. Nest can't do that. Honeywell has a pretty nice setup, I can change my thermostat from their phone app, but I can't control the higher order functions remotely.
I would say wait 5 years, then someone will tackle this. My guess is it will be Google.