A SmartThings community developer who goes by Stoeckie published an Edge driver on 30 October 2026 that lets a SmartThings hub control iRobot Roomba vacuums directly on the local network. The hub talks to the robot over the robot's own MQTT broker, with TLS on port 8883. There is no cloud service, no IFTTT and no extra computer in between. The code
Swiss company Atios sells a Matter bridge for Wiser by Feller, the wired smart home system from the Swiss switch and socket maker Feller. The product is called WiserPort, and matter-smarthome.de covered it on 31 October 2026. Atios lists it at CHF 999 on its own shop, which currently ships within Switzerland.
Anyone who has built a dimmable LED strip or lamp on an ESP32 with ESPHome has probably seen it: a fade looks smooth until the last few percent, then the light drops in visible steps before it goes out. On 1 November 2026, just before 1:00 Warsaw time, ESPHome merged a change by Jakub Sztandera (Kubuxu) that targets exactly that. The ledc output ge
When a Matter controller pairs a new device, it checks the device's identity before letting it in. The device presents a Device Attestation Certificate (DAC), signed by a Product Attestation Intermediate (PAI), plus a Certification Declaration (CD) signed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance. On 31 October 2026 matter.js, the open-source TypeScri
TP-Link has started selling the Tapo T150 in Poland. The Polish press release went out on 28 October 2026, a week after the sensor launched in South Korea on 22 October. The price is about 150 zł, with a two-year warranty.
ESPHome has native support for the Hi-Link HLK-LD6004, a 60 GHz presence radar that reports the position of each person it sees, not just whether a room is occupied. The seven pull requests by Rick van Hattem (wolph), reviewed by J. Nick Koston (bdraco), were merged into the dev branch early on 31 October 2026, between 04:05 and 06:45 Warsaw time.
Homebridge 2.5.0 was published on GitHub on 1 November 2026 at 15:38 Warsaw time. It is the first feature release since 2.4.0 in mid-August, and most of the changelog concerns the Matter side of Homebridge: new device types for home energy, more modes for climate devices and a long list of fixes to the accessory cache.
Two days after Zephyr 4.5.0, the project put out a maintenance release for an older branch. Zephyr 4.3.2 was published on the evening of 30 October 2026 as a bugfix release for 4.3.1, and its security section is long: 225 CVE entries. For 121 of them the notes give a description and a GitHub security advisory. The other 104 are marked as under emba
Zigbee2MQTT 2.14.3 came out on 1 November 2026, a month after 2.14.2. Most of it is the usual monthly batch of new devices and fixes. The part that needs action is at the top of the notes: running Zigbee2MQTT on a 32-bit system is now deprecated, and support ends in April 2027.
