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.
Buy an Apple TV, a Nest Hub and a SmartThings hub, and you probably own three Thread border routers. There is a good chance you also have three separate Thread networks. Each one carries only the devices that were added through its own ecosystem, and a mains-powered plug in one network will not relay traffic for a sensor in another.
Samsung published the details of its new SmartThings API pricing on 30 October 2026. From 4 November, developers and companies that call the SmartThings cloud API directly move to paid plans. The SmartThings app, routines and local hub integrations stay free.
Josh.ai, a smart home platform with voice control that dealers design and install for their clients, has a new software update, TWICE reported on 30 October 2026. It arrives over the air on all Josh.ai systems and adds three integrations: myQ garage doors, PowerShades motorised shades and the Sonos Amp Multi amplifier. Samsung TVs also get more rel
Amazon announced Alexa Home Map on 28 October 2026, at the same event as the new Echo Dot and Echo Show 16. It replaces the flat 2D Map View that came to the Alexa app in 2023 with an interactive 3D model of the house and the plot around it. Echo speakers, Ring and Blink cameras, Fire TV, lights, locks, thermostats and other connected devices sit o
When the power goes out, everything in a smart home drops at the same moment: the router, the switch, the machine running your home automation software, the Zigbee or Thread coordinator plugged into it, and the NAS holding its backups. Short outages then turn into long ones, because devices come back in random order and anything that was writing to
Anker SOLIX announced a large software update for PowerOS, the energy management system behind its Solarbank balcony solar batteries and the SOLIX X home storage series, on 29 October 2026. The rollout of the first features starts in October, with more planned for December. The update covers all existing Solarbank models, including first and second
ADT, the US home security company that claims the country's largest network of smart home security professionals, announced on 29 October 2026 that it will be acquired by Thrive Holdings. The deal is all cash: $10.00 per share, which values ADT at about $7.6 billion in equity value and $15.3 billion in enterprise value. That is a 45.6% premium over
Google published a new set of Google Home release notes on 29 October 2026. Most of the list is bug fixes, but two changes matter for anyone running Matter devices through Google Home, and a speaker fix will interest people who have already moved to a Wi-Fi 7 router.
