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
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.
If the solar forecast line in Home Assistant's Energy dashboard always seemed to run an hour behind your panels, it was not your imagination. A fix by Tagliax, change #188790, was merged into Home Assistant's development branch on 26 October 2026, so it is lined up for the 2026.11 release. It moves every Forecast.Solar energy value to the start of
Conow, an energy brand built together with Tuya Smart, announced on 26 October 2026 that its Atlas 6000 AC home battery is now on sale in Germany through local distributors. It is aimed at households that already have rooftop solar and want to store surplus energy without replacing their inverter.
eQ-3, the German company behind Homematic IP, will add two plugins to its Home Control Unit hub with an update scheduled for 27 October 2026. One speaks Modbus, the other MQTT. Both let devices from other manufacturers appear in Homematic IP next to the system's own sensors and actuators, and both are switched on and configured in the hub's web int
HomeWizard, the Dutch maker of the P1 Meter and the Energy Socket, started a recall on 20 October 2026 for one production batch of its compact Energy Socket, model HWE-SKT-21. Additional safety tests showed that these plugs do not meet the company's own safety requirements and can cause an electric shock. HomeWizard says it has received no reports
A pulse reader on the electricity meter tells you how much the whole house uses. It does not tell you how much of that goes to the heat pump, the boiler, the workshop or the kitchen circuit. For that you need a meter on the circuit itself, and the Peacefair PZEM-004T V3 is a cheap way to get one: a small board that measures voltage, current, power,
The Teslemetry integration gets two new actions for Tesla Powerwall owners in Home Assistant 2026.11. Pull request #188303 by Brett Adams (Bre77), merged into the development branch on 25 October 2026, adds teslemetry.dispatch_battery_power and teslemetry.resume_battery_operation. Their documentation was merged into the next branch of the docs on 2
