Only for the software. Most commercial companies in the home automation space are slinging hardware and/or hoovering data. Even Apple is fundamentally selling i

Only for the software. Most commercial companies in the home automation space are slinging hardware and/or hoovering data. Even Apple is fundamentally selling iPhones here. Open source hardware is a thing but it's genuinely hard and it's a place where the open source iterative building on a rising base idiom doesn't bring such long term dividends because real manufacturing costs real money, and lots of it, and even the best open source electronic designs eventually go out of date when parts EOL. Hardware vendors are reluctant to provide access to run open firmware on their devices because not only then it's a hop, skip and a jump to a clone, inevitably cheaper since the design phase costs a lot, but also they'll lose the device lock-in (e.g. Apple) or app-based data siphon (everyone else).