Thanks, I have to admit I just wrote the whole thing off from the get-go. But then again I've been around long enough to see things like X10 take off and then get abandoned. Like IBM's Home Director and other products in that space, which from where I sit, is the exact same market as smart homes but without the mobile focus.

It's good to see that people are able to hack this stuff and make it less reliant on the companies. Heck they're probably selling some of it at a loss and hoping for recurring revenue from usage stats and other spying.