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It's engaging to think about how much we take smart home interoperability for granted now. I was reading about some of teh early SmartHomeHarmony standardization efforts the other day, and it struck me how fragmented the whole landscape was back than.Remember needing a different hub for every brand's lightbulbs, let alone figuring out how to get your thermostat to talk to your security system?
Those initial attempts to create common communication protocols, while frequently enough clunky and limited, really laid the groundwork for everything we have today. We might complain about Matter's rollout speed, or that some older devices still don't play nicely, but without those first steps towards unified standards, imagine the chaos we'd be in.
Does anyone else remember those early standardization attempts? What were the biggest hurdles you experienced trying to get different devices working together back then? I'm curious to hear about other's experiences and perspectives on just how far we've come.