[jeffclark]

I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buying the wrong equipment is a frustrating (and expensive) mistake.

I'm building a way to help you pick the connected equipment that will work best for your home, based on what you want to control, how you want to control it, and the equipment that already exists in your house.

For example, I've got an Ecobee3 thermostat, Lutron Caseta lights, a SmartThings hub and an Echo Dot. My system will tell you the best connected door lock for your home that will work with that setup.

[ZenoArrow]

Just one suggestion, can you offer information on device security also? A collection of devices may work well together, but if I was buying a smart home device I'd want to be informed of any security issues as they're discovered. The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.

[ryanlol]

>The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.

Primarily driven by home routers, not IoT devices.

[ZenoArrow]

>"Primarily driven by home routers, not IoT devices."

It's IoT devices too. Here's an example of an IoT device with subpar security discovered in the past couple of days:

http://hackaday.com/2017/01/02/owl-insecure-internet-of-ener...

[jeffclark]

That's a great idea.

Do you have any devices in your house, yet?

[ZenoArrow]

Thank you. Any IoT devices? Not yet.