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 Posted: Thursday Nov 17th, 2016 09:07 pm
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srooks wrote: Like many markets, HA will remain fragmented, especially as you have all the big Consumer Electronic companies now competing in this space each with a proprietary solution.

Are there any plans for enhancing ETH03? I notice there're some disabled buttons for uploading web pages.

I think Comfort fits in the IoT space so how about supporting MQTT which would then allow it to subscribe and publish events into the fragmented world of HA.

Supporting Apple Homelink would also  be interesting, although beyond Siri control I'm not sure what it gives.

I think that's an *opportunity* for Comfort to position itself as the bridge between all those big consumer electronics companies proprietary solutions... I see Comfort as the centre of my HA system with tentacles reaching out into all the other HA systems I have in my house, such as CBUS, Zwave, etc. etc. the way it is so easily able to bridge these different technologies is very compelling... that I can have a CBUS button operate a zwave lamp seamlessly and elegantly is impressive... Imagine that same integration tentacle reaching out into Phillips Hue for example... 

I don't think we've even begun to see what Apple's Homekit is going to be capable of, so its a bit difficult to prognosticate, but I rather suspect that dismissing it at this stage will in future be seen in the same vein as the guy who once said "no-one should ever need more than 256K of memory"... (it was Bill Gates..) :D

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