Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

I keep coming back to this one but there are a couple of barriers that stop me from pulling the trigger:

1. They won’t ship to Ireland (not a major problem, can have a mate in London ship it to me, just an extra layer of effort)
   
2. It’s tuya based (again, I think it’s possible to overcome that with local tuya, but I’ve read reports of that integration crashing occasionally)
   
3. I can’t help but think there is a more simple and more cost effective solution