>And it's been long enough that if nobody has done it right so far, it seems like a distinct possibility that nobody ever will. But it hasn't been that long at

>And it's been long enough that if nobody has done it right so far, it seems like a distinct possibility that nobody ever will. But it hasn't been that long at all, and there are people doing it right. The problem is that they are expensive and don't offer the same amount of features that some people want. Take the "traditional" smarthome networks like z wave and friends. I have a z wave light switch that works as a lightswitch 100% of the time. I actually installed the switches before i had a controller for them. Add a controller and you have a "smarthome". Connect that controller to your wifi and you have the ability to control these things safely from within your own network using anything from a bash script to shitty iphone apps. Connect that network to the internet through a firewall and an authentication system and you now can control all of that stuff securely across the planet. If any one of those breaks, functionality is reduced. Internet is down, i can't control it outside the house. Controller goes down, i can't control them as groups or from within the house but still "remotely". But it will literally always turn on/off the lights when i hit the switch. I don't need to worry about the security of a cheap chinese zwave knockoff thing because the controller is that gatekeeper. That's IOT done right. But people don't want to pay the money for that, they don't want to pay an electrician to come out and install them across the whole house, they don't care about security or what happens when the internet is down, they want a light they can control from their phone for as cheap as possible as fast as possible. And of course when people are asking for a product, manufacturers are going to make it.