Another thing to be conscious of is support for ciphers/keys/encryption etc. what were once very open systems, are now requiring a bit more security - for example I had been working on a plugin for my Panasonic Viera TV, but it soon became clear it was going way beyond my knowledge and Lua skills and the required models ffi , aes etc would not easy to do via Vera.
So having support for a Panasonic Viera TV plugin would be good
