Ukraine's computer emergency response team CERT-UA published an alert on 23 October 2026 about attacks on Dahua video surveillance equipment. According to the alert, attackers gained remote access to IP cameras and video recorders, watched the live video, changed device settings and created accounts of their own. CERT-UA did not say who was targete
Schneider Electric's planned takeover of Shelly Group has cleared its first review, with homework attached. On 23 October 2026 Shelly announced that Bulgaria's Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) had looked at the offer document and, in a decision dated 22 October, asked the bidder to add and clarify some information. According to Shelly, the re
Tuya Local, the custom Home Assistant integration that controls Tuya Wi-Fi devices over the local network instead of through the Tuya cloud, released version 2026.10.0 on 23 October 2026. It adds four devices, improves 17 existing device configurations and fixes bugs that could make devices stop updating. It also has three breaking changes, so it i
If an ESPHome device forwards its logs to a syslog server, that server may have been receiving the device's passwords. A fix by Jonathan Swoboda, merged into ESPHome's development branch on 23 October 2026, replaces those values with [redacted] before the log line leaves the device. It is not in the 2026.10.0 release from 21 October, so it should a
LILYGO is selling the T-Halow P4, a development board in the M.2 2280 format (80 x 22 mm) that puts three chips on one stick: an ESP32-P4 as the main chip, an ESP32-C6 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and 802.15.4, and a Taixin TX-AH module for Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah). CNX Software covered it on 23 October 2026.
ESPHome has a new duco component for Duco heat recovery ventilation units. It was merged into the development branch on 23 October 2026 together with its documentation, so it should ship in ESPHome 2026.11. Pieter Kokx opened the pull request in December 2024, and it took almost two years and a rewrite to current ESPHome conventions before it went
ESPHome's online_image component loads a picture from a URL and shows it on a display, for example a camera snapshot, album art or a weather map. On 22 and 23 October 2026 three related changes by Clyde Stubbs were merged into the development branch (2026.11.0-dev). Together they cut the memory a JPEG download needs and let a display show how far t
The ESP32-P4 has no radio of its own. Boards such as the M5Stack Tab5 pair it with an ESP32-C6 that handles Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and ESPHome talks to that co-processor through the esp32_hosted component and Espressif's esp_hosted library. On 22 October 2026 ESPHome merged a change (#21394) that moves the host side from esp_hosted 2.12.13 to 3.0.10
Ubiquiti has an unannounced UniFi access point at the FCC that carries a Thread radio. The device is the U7 Mesh Wall (FCC ID SWX-U7MW), a wall-mounted Wi-Fi 7 access point, and the grant was issued on 16 October 2026. Matter Alpha spotted the filing and wrote about it on 23 October.
