A Protocol For Home Automation

jfruh writes "Marshall Rose, one of the creators of the SNMP protocol, has a beef with current home automation gadgets: it's very, very difficult to get them to talk to each other, and you often end up needing a pile of remote controls to operate them. To fix these problems, he's proposed the Thing System, which will serve as an intermediary on your home automation network. The Thing System aims to help integrate gadgets already on the market, which may help it take off."

obligatory xkcd

[Anonymous Coward]

#927 [xkcd.com]

won't work

[callmetheraven]

Everything in the fridge is melted because I couldn't find the right MIB.