Do yourself a favor and read the writeup about the perfect home automation system by founder of Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io https://www.home-a

Do yourself a favor and read the writeup about the perfect home automation system by founder of Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io https://www.home-assistant.io) https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/ https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-a... An app per device class/vendor is beyond useless. A centralized, single controller that mostly has no interface at all is the solution.