A Raspberry Pi in a DIN-rail case is nothing new, but this one comes with a full set of plug-in I/O modules. On 27 October 2026 CNX Software described the Synergy Logic SLM-RP4, an industrial controller (PLC) built around a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. It costs $249, with I/O modules sold separately.
Camera software running on an ordinary Windows PC can be the way into a whole network. On 27 October 2026 security company Huntress described several incidents from September and October in which attackers got in by compromising a camera management program, a Windows client used to view and manage video from cameras and recorders.
Baseus has a new camera for people who cannot drill into an outside wall. On 27 October 2026 Digital Trends reported the launch of the PrimeSentinel W1, a camera that sticks to the inside of a window and watches the street, garden or driveway through the glass. It costs $69.99 and went on sale in the US the same day.
Owners of Schlage smart locks will soon be able to hand out temporary PIN codes straight from Home Assistant. On 27 October 2026 a pull request by Aaron (abpei) that adds scheduled access codes to the Schlage integration was merged into Home Assistant's development branch. It was reviewed by MartinHjelmare, epenet, iluvdata and joostlek.
On 27 October the Home Assistant team added Everything Smart Home to its Works with Home Assistant program. The certified devices are the company's three mmWave presence sensors: the Everything Presence Lite, One and Pro. All three run ESPHome and work without a cloud account.
ESPHome 2026.10.1 came out on 27 October at 19:33 Polish time, six days after 2026.10.0. It is a bugfix release with 14 changes. Most are small, but three can bite: firmware that crashes at boot after an incremental build, a fan whose state never reaches the MQTT broker, and a coprocessor update that never finishes.
The "Home Assistant" LLM API, the admin-only toolset for AI agents that arrives in Home Assistant 2026.11, is no longer read-only. On 27 October at 20:45 Polish time, Franck Nijhof merged a pull request by Paulus Schoutsen that adds a tool for calling any action. A day earlier a second tool landed that lets the agent search for actions first.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has published three short documents on Zigbee 4.0 in October 2026: a Benefits one-pager on October 15, a Features Overview on October 21 and a Features Deep Dive on October 27. None of them is a new specification. They are the first plain summaries of what the alliance actually changed in Zigbee 4.0, and they say
SwitchBot launched the AI Art Frame 2 on October 27, 2026. It is a battery-powered picture frame with a full-colour E Ink Spectra 6 panel, sold in 7.1, 13.3 and 31.5 inch sizes through SwitchBot's own shop and Amazon in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe.
