The problem with modern smart home tech is that it all presupposes that no wiring is available: all communication must be wireless.

This makes the whole thing unreliable and laggy, and is a crap long-term assumption. It makes the modern smart home tooling not worth using while it matures towards... more same.

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What if some kind of low-bandwidth low-voltage wiring like i2c was just standard alongside any power line?

utopia-gif.jpg probably, right?

10base-t1l and s exist. The problem is most people don't wanna setup hardwired networking at their house and rather plop some type wireless node where electricity is already run.

I'm in process of putting in fiver at my home compound and it is no easy task and it is not suitable to most consumer goods.

Data wiring is also not a priority during construction and is usually an after the fact item. Especially for residential