Within the tech world, there’s plenty of excitement over the potential for home automation – i.e. the prospect of controlling the functions in your home (temperature, lights, etc.) from your smartphone or from a single dedicated device such as Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN) Echo device.

Frankly, though, a fair bit of the excitement is just hype – and reality hasn’t caught up.

Some of that is due to reasons that will be hard to overcome. As I’ve noted in the past, there are a few home automation “tasks” that are already pretty easy, and unnecessary to control remotely. For example, the number of people who want to control the lighting in a room they’re currently not in, is probably pretty small.

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