One platform
Commitment beats collecting ecosystems.
Every abandoned smart home has the same history: bought by device, not by plan.
Buying a plug here and a bulb there produces three apps, two hubs and nothing that runs by itself. Choosing a platform first is unglamorous and it is the whole game.
Then automations have to survive real life. If the lights fail when a guest's phone is on the wifi, or nobody but you can turn the heat up, the system gets switched off within a month.
And most 'faulty device' complaints are network complaints. Fixing coverage and channels quietly resolves a long list of problems people were about to spend money on.
Commitment beats collecting ecosystems.
If you open an app to use it, it has failed.
We sell nothing, and mains work goes to an electrician.
Twenty minutes, free, on what you own and what to do with it.