Note: I had a lot of fun building this project, and there's still a lot of good stuff in this post, but if you really want to try doing your own Sonos/Alexa
I love my Sonos, and with the still-in-beta next version of the smartphone controller app and the recently expanded functionality of the buttons on top of the players, it's even better. The folks
I think the Nest Thermostat is beautiful. Just a lovely piece of hardware that solves a problem nobody knew they had. (Nest did the same with their new “Protect” smoke alarm, btw.) Unfortunately,