Late in responding to this but take for example using Home Assistant to integrate all the things - environmentals, presence, energy monitoring, switching, acces

Late in responding to this but take for example using Home Assistant to integrate all the things - environmentals, presence, energy monitoring, switching, access, audio, video, etc. I don’t even think my house is all that sophisticated compared to some, but there’s no way an off the shelf plug-n-play solution delivers this today. I know way more about zigbee, Insteon, Zwave, tasmota, protocol border routers, gateways, dual band repeaters, bad and good vendors, leading vs trailing edge dimming and component value than I want to, and that’s just to get things talking effectively and reliably. Then there’s the automation build out - rules, data storage, state, events, triggers, oh my! And that’s atop an existing knowledge for managing vlans, WiFi, and the rest of the network stack. There’s also an assumption of comfort with residential wiring, of course. It requires hobby-level commitment from someone in house who becomes the SME. I enjoy it to an extent, though I wish it was easier, and it’s just not when I step back and take stock of all the obscure knowledge it takes. It’s kind of hilarious.