[orf]

Wouldn't that be insanely expensive compared to off the shelf solutions and result in a hodge-podge of insecure, half baked solutions?

[wtallis]

> a hodge-podge of insecure, half baked solutions?

That's exactly what the commercial market of Internet of Things devices is so far. You couldn't really make it worse by putting a replaceable ESP8266 or BeagleBone at the heart of each of these gadgets.

[adrianN]

After two or three similar people have had their custom thingy build the next person could use the "off the shelf" open source solution with a little customization.

[TeMPOraL]

Off the shelf solutions are already insanely expensive, because companies are still milking people on the "smart" label.

[seppin]

yep