Yeah, I don’t get it. Reading about smart homes, it seems like there’s significant cost and effort, the security risk, the future possibility that you’ll have to throw out perfectly good components because they’ll become obsolete (though the chance of them breaking also increases), and this is what you end up with:
“Ok, let me turn on the light. First I need to get out my phone, now I’ll unlock it, find the app, wait for it to open, find the specific control I want, and hey, presto, the light is on! Oops, no, wait, that didn’t work. Let me try again.”
“Don’t bother, I turned on the light three minutes ago.”
So it’s not even that there’s any sort of time or effort savings on anything - in fact, quite the opposite. Even if it worked perfectly with a better interface that did save time and effort, it would be totally negligible.
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