soooo, nest still wants the thermostat itself to be the hub. a power constrained, proprietary hub with wifi and thread (when it is actually released). Rather

soooo, nest still wants the thermostat itself to be the hub. a power constrained, proprietary hub with wifi and thread (when it is actually released). Rather bizarre in my mind. There seems to be a hub phobia. I'm not saying it makes tons of sense to have multiple little servers for every device but I look at things like my kitchen and wonder, which heating hub I would choose. my microwave, oven, toaster, etc. If there is going to be some kind of singular hub (which would be great) it needs to run apps and have expansion capabilities for the radios. A nest will not cut it. Also, without nest having thread enabled, the only way for things to talk is over wifi (nest <-> api.nest.com) and http. not bad for consistency but it sure would be nice to have all of the communication stay in the local network. On another note, my San Fran apartment doesn't have a thermostat....