It's the Controller's capabilities and the programmer behind it which makes a system special. While the next big thing (fad) will always pop up or new features released, they all turn on, turn off, or dim, at the end of the day. I navigate the tech market every day for work and overall it's still the same. The money is in making products for the masses which is what the Nokia line is geared towards. This is why you don't see many companies focusing on niche products anymore and the ones that do are generally moving out of it (similar to Logitech no longer making harmony remotes). there are too many limitations for making money for a small subset of users. Just have a different perspective than you. This topic is being addressed by thread and matter technologies. What we are not discussing here on this insteon forum about insteon and now Nokia devices, is the topic of security protocol communication between the communication of insteon devices. This year is going to mark the start of iot device connectivity on a large massive scale. Matter is an application layer that runs over Thread and other IP-based networks. But without a standard that defines the content of those messages, devices from different manufacturers don’t interoperate. Likewise, Thread doesn’t care if you’re sending messages to unlock a door, turn on a light, set the temperature, or raise a window shade. Those messages can be web pages, audio, video, photos, or documents. Your home Wi-Fi router doesn’t care about the content of the messages that flow through it. Thread is an IP-based network by design, so it is inherently message-agnostic. That’s intentional – it’s a feature, not a bug. Like Wi-Fi, Thread defines the network protocols but not the message content. “Although Thread has been around for years, it has been slow to catch on, partly because it does not specify an “application layer” – a standard set of commands and data formats that enable device communication. Here is one of the better summary explanation of the matter and thread technologies.

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