Most home technology professionals have opinions about the best way to do home automation. Each company has manufacturers they prefer and has their go-to products. I’ve been around more than one heated debate revolving around the benefits of one control system over another. Those debates tend to end the same way: the participants agree to disagree and continue using the system they were arguing for, convinced now more than ever of its merits.
Debates on home automation are nothing new, but some recent ones have less to do with one system over another and more about the available solutions or even perceived threat to what we do. Let us help decode and offer perspective on some of these debates that happen to be inter-connected.