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That kind of already exists with Home Assistant. Granted, it often feels like a thin wrapper around lots of tiny closed ecosystems, but the fact that most things interoperate well enough means I can recommend it.

Matter/Thread exist as well, and some smart device makers claim to already have adopted it, so we'll see how that all goes.

[ilyt]

I used it few years ago and it had problem of occasionally disconnecting from MQ (I was using external one) and just... not reconnecting.

> Matter/Thread exist as well, and some smart device makers claim to already have adopted it, so we'll see how that all goes.

I'm kinda worried it will be the usual bloated standard by comitee result; tho I guess even if that happens it would still be better to have to implement one bloated standard instead of dozen incompatible ones.

Also at least wikipedia page says its "Proprietary, by certification" so eh, I'm worried