Actually one thing I noticed was how smooth and easy it was to hook it into the cloud and adding devices, and it was very responsive.
Now a few questions and thoughts did come up.
Security:
2013 saw a record in the amount of data breaches and leaked information. A cloud service for a home router and home automation would be a goldmine for hackers, imagine someone gaining access to this cloud and the accounts there. They could monitor when you leave your house and then disable your alarm system and even open the front door. Ok I suppose the average burglar won't have the knowledge to hack the cloud, but a hacker could sell the information to organized criminals. So I still see a security issue here.
So it would be interesting to know how you have implemented security, for example the communication between Almond+ and the Cloud, how you manage logins and server security.
I would also like to see the option of increased security, for example token based authentication like Google 2-step Authentication.
https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/I hope you will be open about it, as I personally believe that security through obscurity and secrecy is failed security.
Performance:
Ok, so the performance was excellent, even the cloud responded almost instantly.
However, I suppose you do not have so many Almond+ hooked into the cloud feeding their status changes.
Have you ensured scale-ability, so when you start selling this and move 2 Million routers
Will it be able to handle this?
HA Functionality:
So this is an early insight to the Home Automation Gui, and sure thing we saw you could turn a light off and on, and you could see the Fire Alarm go off, but I did not see anything like scenes or similar or how to create them.
So if a door opens the light goes on, unless the alarm is active then it will set of the alarm instead.
Things like that needs to be there. ;-)