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Check out OpenHAB.org. This is a full open source Home Automation system. It has a very flexible framework with GUI and should give you what you want. I am currently working on a bridge between OpenHAB and ROS (they are both cleanly designed pub/sub systems so its pretty straightforward. This would have OpenHAB control all the home automation sensors and present information to ROS. This would allow you to do things like: OpenHAB detects motion or water leak and ROS dispatches a robot with camera. Or, if you have a Baxter and an IoT clothes dryer, the dryer will signal that the clothes are ready and Baxter would fold them.

The power of OpenHAB is that it has adapters that can talk to the zillions of different protocols currently roaming the IoT. OpenHAB is the guts of the Eclipse SmartHome project.