durosity wrote:My own observations of it seem to be indigo is very heavily dominated by men, and tends to be ones around my age group and older (so 40+). Of course I’m not sure how that plays out in the wider domotics space.
You would be right most likely (we don't have the actual stats of course, just anecdotal evidence), though I would add tech savvy to that as well.
I suspect that demographic is somewhat similar for the other smaller/more DIY HA systems as well (Ezlo/Vera, Kasa, Insteon, ISY). The big guys (HomeKit, Google Home, SmartThings/Samsung, etc) most likely have a much less tech-savvy clientele. My guess is that the younger you are, the more likely you are to gravitate to open source solutions, 1)
because they are free and 2) because they are infinitely tinkerable. Most of our users like our balance of ease of use with built-in capabilites vs the ability to tweak things.
I think that's reflected in our demographic, and it certainly is for the two of us. When I was younger I enjoyed tinkering with stuff - Apache stuff, GNU, linux, early web servers, etc. Heck, I even hacked around with
Minix back in college in the 1987.
Now (as I've aged), I'm much more of the
set it and
forget it mode - I have other things that are much higher priority in my life than techie tinkering. Part of that is likely because my job is in the field, but I think it's also a desire to live life outside of that.
And the easier the
set it part of set it and forget it, the more happy I am.