Thanks, Mark. I don't think I'd post here, if I weren't prepared for feedback.
I appreciate it, and I wish I had more places to see examples of working touch panels in functional homes.
I'm definitely still in the 'kick the tires' phase of my control pages. I'm pretty sure that when I get around to designing control pages for the monitor on my desk, I'll have a much more unified and comprehensive page layout, where more things are exposed on fewer pages.
My main goal, is to be able to control my house, as I move around my house, not while I'm sitting at my desk. I'd like to achieve that with not only my iPhone, but with wall mounted touch screens and table-top 'remotes' in the major activity areas. In those situations, I don't really need every single element exposed at a top level, and handling a touch device should be easy on the fingers. When I started layering on a lot of detail to pages, it became hard to read and interact with, so those details screens are likely to be at a lower navigational level than what my wife and daughter demand.
So I'm trying to figure out what major 'buckets' of control I'd like to have as I move around the house, and get those onto the bottom nav bar to quickly jump between them. As you noticed in the 'security' bucket, it includes both cameras and the alarm panel. I don't really need both of those to be one click away, so I put them both in the same bucket, with the ability to jump between them once in that bucket. I have more cameras to add, so I may end up with other tabs in the 'security' bucket.
In the case of cameras, it would be nice if there were a way to have buttons on a control page, change the value of another refreshing image control on that same page. In that case, I could probably combine a single camera video window with camera selector buttons, on the same page with an alarm panel layout, and get that to one page. Maybe there is a way, and I just haven't discovered it yet.
My goal is that the majority of items I actually interact with each day are 1 touch away, and the remainder are 2-3 touches away. I'm taking your comments to heart, and trying to figure out how to combine all video sources, a remote for the selected video source, and the lower nav bar, all onto one screen.