It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they're all - with very few exceptions - terrible: That's to control the curtains in my office and the master bedroom, but the hubs (you need two, because the range is rubbish) have stopped communicating. That one is for the spa, but it looks like the service it's meant to authenticate to has disappeared, so now, you can't. And my most recent favourite, Advantage Air, which controls the many tens of thousands of dollars' worth of air conditioning we've just put in. Yes, I'm on the same network, and yes, the touch screen has power…