It's ridiculously inexpensive to get similar functionality these days. A few years ago things were too flakey to be on the critical path of my house operations, but at this point the first thing I did in my new house was to go all Z-Wave.
In the absence of a controller they are simply a normal dumb switch or outlet or thermostat.
They're not WiFi connected so they won't be the attack vector for my network, and Z-Wave has a pretty good record for secure mesh networking.
Tied together with my Wink hub, which provides all the scene controls and can bridge protocols and give me remote control and my house has most of what the OP was trying to get out of his house.
Pairing my Echo to my Wink Hub now gives me complete voice control over the house.
I'm not even $1000 into an entire brand new house wired up with Z-Wave switches everywhere, Z-Wave outlets in certain areas, an Ecobee3 thermostat, and some random other things. I've even built a few of my own sensors that I've integrated with my Wink Hub through their API.
I get why things like this used to cost so much. In a commercial setting I'd still go that route, but for my house I'm at least 10x cheaper and it's been every bit as reliable, if not more so, than every big home control setup I've ever seen.
In the absence of a controller they are simply a normal dumb switch or outlet or thermostat.
They're not WiFi connected so they won't be the attack vector for my network, and Z-Wave has a pretty good record for secure mesh networking.
Tied together with my Wink hub, which provides all the scene controls and can bridge protocols and give me remote control and my house has most of what the OP was trying to get out of his house.
Pairing my Echo to my Wink Hub now gives me complete voice control over the house.
I'm not even $1000 into an entire brand new house wired up with Z-Wave switches everywhere, Z-Wave outlets in certain areas, an Ecobee3 thermostat, and some random other things. I've even built a few of my own sensors that I've integrated with my Wink Hub through their API.
I get why things like this used to cost so much. In a commercial setting I'd still go that route, but for my house I'm at least 10x cheaper and it's been every bit as reliable, if not more so, than every big home control setup I've ever seen.