thread over matter

A happier one this time. In the early but far-too-recent Wild West days of the smart home, manufacturers used a wide variety of protocols and platforms, most of which were proprietary, and largely none of which were inter-operational. As time moved on, the devices landed on being at least minimally operational with the bigger platforms that arose: Amazon, Google, and, to a much lesser extent, Apple. Some required Internet service, some required a (proprietary of course) hub, while a few allowed local control absent an external device or phone home. Meanwhile, a few standard protocols started being...