What do you mean? The home-hobbyist community has been doing this for years using protocols like X10, Zwave, etc. And we used Usenet groups like comp.home.autom

What do you mean? The home-hobbyist community has been doing this for years using protocols like X10, Zwave, etc. And we used Usenet groups like comp.home.automation to meet and discuss stuff. Home Automation has a very long tail of history and those of us who came up that way all knew Nest was going to be a joke.