&gt; If you want something that &#x27;just works&#x27;, then github is probably not the first place you should look.<p>Yes, and that&#x27;s my point. The expressed problem was that somebody renovating a home looked at a bunch of the options and said that they were too much hassle, too much risk. When somebody says, &quot;This technology doesn&#x27;t look like something I want to deal with for 20 years,&quot; it seems to miss the point to add, &quot;Hey, here&#x27;s some source code to something even less likely to last 20 years.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s bad to try write code for fun. I too have a GitHub repository with some dubious home automation code. [1] But as a developer, when a user talks about a problem, I think it&#x27;s vital to truly listen to the problem and then only talk about a solution if it actually solves something for them.<p>[1] Basically, redshift for my house: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wpietri&#x2F;sunrise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wpietri&#x2F;sunrise</a>