Comment on Home Automation: Simple vs Easy by IIVQ

I have no "real" home automation to speak of, only my Honeywell Evohome thermosthat. I find the "Your thermosthat has lost connection" e-mails more useful than the actual being-away-and-heating-my-house, which I do once every two years...

I have a homebuilt home entertainment system based on two raspverry pi's, one with lirc and kodi and one with NFS and an external hard drive, which is so cumbersome to operate that when a friend housesat, I just pulled out the HDMI cable and told her to plug that into her laptop.
So I'm feeling the gist of this post.