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I just think it's unfortunate that every player in the space has to ship their own hardware (and, obviously, force the user into a walled garden so that competitor's products are inconvenient to use.)

Give me (a power user) something I can run in a docker container locally, or on any of my local Macs or PCs.

Or, assume as a constraint that smart homes need to be able to run themselves. I would appreciate if everyone in the space made an effort at detente while the technology matured to a point where a massive privacy and security hole wasn't required in order to have the thing work at all.