ActionTiles is justifiably very popular, as long as you’re using SmartThings it’s definitely something to consider.
As far as atmos, they have never answered how they’re going to have a locally operating voice recognition system. So far everybody who has tried one for home automation has failed in the low-cost range, and even the very expensive Systems tend to end up having to use something like Dragon, where the user needs to either wear a microphone or be within about 5 inches of the speaker or use their mobile phone.
The big breakthrough with Amazon’s echo was the far field speech recognition which is honestly just amazing. The hardware Innovation with multiple patents on it. And then they, like Siri and hey Google, use the cloud for the software piece because voice recognition is just hugely complex and needs massive data bases.
So as a concept, like something you’d see in the Jetsons cartoon, absolutely, atmos looks great. But as an engineering proposal, I’m not seeing anything that would bring that concept to reality. I’m definitely happy to be proven wrong, but I’m going to wait until they actually prove it. 