Jetson Home, the US and Canadian company known for its Jetson Air heat pump, announced two new products on 27 October 2026: Jetson Water, a heat pump water heater, and Jetson Charge, a Level 2 EV charger. Both use the same app as Jetson Air. Reservations opened the same day with a refundable $50 deposit, and installations start in early 2027.
On 27 October 2026 Home Assistant merged a change that gives the Energy dashboard a separate place for a whole-home consumption meter. Until now, people with a main-panel monitor that measured everything the house used had to add it as an "individual device". The total then sat in the Sankey diagram next to the real devices it already contained, so
LR2021-SDR is an open-source project by Samuel Reynolds (SAMS0N1TE). It turns the Semtech LR2021 LoRa transceiver into a software-defined radio (SDR). On 27 October 2026 the author relicensed it under the MIT licence. The same day he merged firmware changes for transmitting at up to 1 million samples per second. CNX Software first described the pro
Matic launched the Matic Serene on 27 October 2026, its first new robot vacuum since the original Matic appeared in 2023. The new model has one headline change: noise. Matic says the Serene runs at 52 dB on its highest suction setting, about as loud as a running refrigerator. It costs $1,695 in the US and is available now.
The owner of a 2014 Samsung WW10H9400EW "Crystal Blue" washer has brought back remote control of the machine after Samsung ended support for its old Smart Control feature. The open-source project went up on GitHub on 24 October 2026, and the story spread after its author, McArhony, described it on Reddit. Tech sites picked it up over the following
CISA revised its advisory ICSA-26-267-02 on Eufy robot vacuums on 27 October 2026. Update A changes the affected versions and the fix. The original advisory from 24 September told owners of both the Omni C20 and the Omni X10 Pro to install version 1.6.4. The revised one gives a separate fixed version for each model and narrows which flaws affect th
Raspberry Pi seems to be preparing two boards it has not announced yet: a Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A. Device tree files for both were merged into Raspberry Pi's fork of the Linux kernel on 25 October 2026, in a pull request titled "Add device tree for Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4A" from Raspberry Pi engineer Marta Momotko. Hackster.
Linux Voice Assistant 1.1.17 was released on 27 October 2026. The project, maintained under the Open Home Foundation's OHF-Voice organization, turns a Linux computer such as a Raspberry Pi into a voice satellite for Home Assistant. It talks to Home Assistant over the ESPHome protocol, so Home Assistant sees it as an ESPHome device. Version 1.1.16 c
Xiaomi has added a washer-dryer to its large appliance range in Europe. On 27 October 2026 Notebookcheck reported that the Mijia Washer Dryer Pro 10kg (model WD100MJA12EU) is available in Germany and Spain. In Germany it is sold through Xiaomi's own online store for €649, with delivery within 12 days.
