My job is smarthome stuff, not necessarily anything about learning patterns or anything, as much as "hey it's kinda neat that I can control my TV and my cable box and the room lights via this iPad laying on the couch", complete with plenty of RS232 protocols, IR flashers, AV distributers, user interface design, and a certain big-deal AV hardware manufacturer.

The houses I've gone to, where the entire thing is integrated, are nuts. Every room has speakers of some sort, fancy pools with sprinklers, full-on theaters in the basement complete with dolby atmos, every single lightbulb and switch is meshnet or centralized, house-wide lighting presets (with some being "automatic", with motion sensors or timers), touch panels mounted in the walls, special remotes for every room, centralized AV sources (so you can route a cable box or a radio to literally any TV or speaker in any room), and of course these systems come with hefty pricetags to match.

That's really it though, I'm not personally interested in smarthome technology outside of it being my day job. Though, those Philips Hues are pretty nice, we have two in the programming lab at work, and it's nice to be able to set it to outdoor-esque white, or soft white, or red, or green, etc.

Having voice-activated lighting control, or TV control, or whatnot, it's pretty neat, but I doubt I'd actually do it at home; the novelty wears off once you've dealt with dozens of amazon dots in various applications.

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