I&#x27;ve started working on exactly this problem. I don&#x27;t think that sticking everything to a specific vendor is the right solution, and hoping that everybody is going to adopt the same standard is just not going to happen.<p>I&#x27;m building a simple open source API that will connect all your devices together regardless of whether they have a fancy API or not. [1]<p>I just started working on it so it&#x27;s definitely far from done, but I think that this might be a step in the right direction.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hjem&#x2F;hjem" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hjem&#x2F;hjem</a>