Telegram from a hunting lodge in India to a house in Berkshire
Written on paper. carried on horse back to the railway telegraph operator. Morse code by railway telegraph to the railway station in a city, back onto paper for the short journey to the Post Office International Telegraphic Office in that city. Morse Code on Short Wave Radio to the UK. 5 bit Baudot code via Telex from the GPO receiving station to the Berkshire Telegraph office. Then by speech on the telephone to the village telephone operator. Written onto a Telegram Form and carried by a boy on a bike to the house.
I used Dutch to humour Dan with his fixation for Intergas but your analogy is akin to a Vokera boiler using OpenTherm changed to ebus from a Vaillant, then KM bus for Veissmann to whatever Ariston them Worcester use then CAN bus to 0-10v back to OpenTherm.
I try to keep things as simple as possible.