Basically, yes. But how do you authenticate that the thing telling the TV to turn off actually has the authority to tell it to turn off? This is a whole nothe

Basically, yes. But how do you authenticate that the thing telling the TV to turn off actually has the authority to tell it to turn off? This is a whole nother level of complexity which consumers will need to navigate after the API for all the things are standardized and many companies are going to screw up the security way worse than they are currently screwing up the interoperability. The real problem with IoT isn't the standardization of the transfer medium, it's the security implications of having your things on an internet.