None of that stuff seems useful to me in anything like its current form and I'm sort of an early adopter of a lot of things. My brother has a (newly built) hou

None of that stuff seems useful to me in anything like its current form and I'm sort of an early adopter of a lot of things. My brother has a (newly built) house that's more or less optimal for a Roomba-type thing. It's very single level. They also have dogs. I looked at and a much better solution was a Dyson stick vac I could spend a few minutes running now and then. I'm just not sure where the big home automation wins are. Not sure the last time I've even heard Nest thermostats mentioned in print.