Eufy, Anker's smart home brand, has launched the E10 Window Camera, a small wired camera that sticks to the inside of a window and watches the driveway, front garden or entrance from indoors. TechRadar and T3 reported the launch on 14 October 2026. The camera costs $79.99 or £69.99, and a two-pack costs $149.99 or £129.99. It is already on sale in
On 14 October 2026 ESPHome maintainers published a developer note for a breaking change that lands with 2026.10.0: remote_base protocol methods are no longer virtual, receiver listener and dumper lists are fixed-size vectors sized at code generation, and a protocol’s .cpp file is compiled only when the configuration actually uses it. Ordinary YAML
Aqara’s Smart Lock U600 is on sale in the UK for £229.99. It is built for British multipoint doors on uPVC, composite and timber frames, and it speaks Matter over Thread with Apple Home Key and Samsung Wallet Key. Coverage on 14 October 2026 put the lock on Amazon.co.uk and Aqara’s UK channels at that price.
Google's release notes for 14 October 2026 include a change that Philips Hue owners will notice: existing Hue bridges linked to Google Home are upgraded in the background to local Matter control through Google Home hubs. Google promises faster responses and better reliability, and you do not have to re-pair anything.
TP-Link published a security advisory on 14 October 2026 for CVE-2026-108473, a missing-authentication flaw (CWE-306) in the local device-management protocol of 24 Kasa smart plugs, power strips, wall switches, bulbs and light strips. An attacker on the same local network can send management commands without logging in and change a device's state o
Espressif published esp-pqc on 14 October 2026, an ESP-IDF component that adds the two NIST post-quantum algorithms, ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204), to existing Espressif chips. It runs entirely in software, so you can try post-quantum TLS 1.3 and an extra firmware signature check at boot without waiting for new silicon. Espressif position
VIEWE, a Shenzhen display maker, has released the PLCM-UES31S043H800V480C-U, a 4.3-inch touch display module built on Espressif's new ESP32-S31. CNX Software, which wrote it up on 14 October 2026, says it appears to be the first third-party development board with that chip. VIEWE sells it for $38.99 in its own store and plans to list it on AliExpre
Two separate fixes landed on 14 October 2026 for Sonoff's S60 smart plugs, and both deal with the same weak spot: small loads. If you track a phone charger, a router or an LED lamp on one of these plugs, the readings have probably looked wrong.
If an ESPHome device of yours drives a screen through ili9xxx, st7735, st7789v, qspi_dbi or rpi_dpi_rgb, it now has an end date. On 14 October 2026 J. Nick Koston merged five small pull requests that set ESPHome 2027.5.0 as the version in which these display components will be removed.
