[aamargulies]

OK, nerd sniped.

I bought an OpenGarage and then saw that it had MQTT integration. So... installed MQTT and got that working.

Then asked how hard would it be to hook this up to Alexa and get voice control working? Not toooooo hard ... working.

Then... how hard to get all of my home automation IOT/OAUTHish stuff integrated into MQTT+Alexa? ... a fair bit of work, but .... done!

So, now MQTT is the heart of a system that can talk to my tempest weather station, Tesla, sprinklers, opengarage, ecobee, sense, flume, smartthings controller, all queryable and controllable via voice.

Amazing what is possible these days.