I bet quite a few people would be less annoyed about Nest and others if <i>someone</i> made a good alternative.<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen there is a) fully cloud-enabled stuff, b) cheap china crap with security holes and c) &quot;enterprise&quot; solutions with prices and hardware demands to match. No-one makes something with the features of b), proper security and the price+polish of a).<p>There is quite a few &quot;IoT&quot; devices I want to like, but they come with (to me) unacceptable limitations.<p>Just to make it clear, I understand that this has similar development effort and Nest probably couldn&#x27;t have done both at the same time. I just wish there were a few companies outside of the as-cheapest-as-possible spectrum that made &quot;boring&quot; consumer devices.