Comment by internetter 2 days ago
> competent companies are willing to take on all that, if you pay them a lot, which is why high end smart homes are flourishing.
Citations needed, I can provide a lot of examples of high end equipment providing a worse experience.
He asked for more concrete examples because the professional companies are behind the consumer level products. Home Assistant is one of the biggest projects on GitHub for a reason. It's still stuck in the hobby space but everything they are doing lately is to push it past Apple Home for the regular user.
Are you confused about what early 2000s means?
The ideal integrated smart home was already achieved before smartphones existed.
Recent advancements have mostly been about pushing the original 100 million+ usd cost lower.
Famously Bill Gates had a practically fully envisioned smart home by the early 2000s. With pretty much every wizmo and integration.
Even superyachts nowadays are starting to see that from what I’ve heard.