Thank you for the input, observations and suggestions. For some reason, unable to post "likes" and "thanks" to the posts, but I would if possible! Will be making the changes to the specification sheet and descriptive text later this week.

Many of your wish list items are in development. Been working on a next gen consumer controller project for the past year+ that I envision will be the basis of a component (build for your needs) system. It is controlled by both traditional STB and event commands, will be released as open software with user adjustments of parameters and alternative communication paths including USB, BT and LAN. Will post more information as the project progresses. The projected timeline for preproduction testing is Q3 2018, so still quite a bit of development and decisions to be made with a product release date still within our lifetimes... LOL!