Let's hope it's an open protocol. I'm guessing this came out of Nest so they may want to make it interoperable. I'm a big fan of https://www.particle.io https:

Let's hope it's an open protocol. I'm guessing this came out of Nest so they may want to make it interoperable. I'm a big fan of https://www.particle.io https://www.particle.io (previously Spark). http://nodered.org http://nodered.org and https://resin.io https://resin.io are also good but not used them seriously.