Nanoleaf, known for light panels and bulbs, announced its first fan on November 2, 2026: the Smart Air Circulator Fan (model W9502500), launched in Australia through the Nanoleaf AU store. It runs on a built-in battery or mains power and joins Matter controllers over Wi-Fi.
You open the wall switch box to fit a smart relay and find two wires: the incoming live and the switched live that runs up to the lamp. No blue neutral. That is normal in many older installations, because a plain switch never needed one. A smart device does, or at least it needs some way to stay powered while the light is off.
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
Plenty of heat pump spec sheets carry a small "SG Ready" logo. It sounds like a smart grid protocol, and people expect an app, a cloud service or at least a network port behind it. What you actually get is two terminals on the controller board. You close or open them with a relay, and the heat pump changes the way it runs.
Trane and American Standard, the two residential heating and cooling brands of Trane Technologies, launched the HVAC Performance Monitoring Kit on 30 October 2026. It is a retrofit add-on for existing systems: the company says it fits virtually any 24 V non-communicating HVAC system, whatever the brand or age. That covers the common single-stage, t
The Zephyr Project released Zephyr 4.5.0 on 28 October 2026. Zephyr is the open source real-time operating system behind a lot of IoT firmware, including Nordic's nRF Connect SDK and many sensor, gateway and wearable products. The release had contributions from 1,297 people, a record according to the project, and it will get fixes until 28 October
Tesla Energy announced Heat Pump Optimization for Powerwall 3 and Powerwall 3P in Europe on 30 October 2026. The feature lets the battery system tell a heat pump to run harder when the roof produces more solar power than the house uses, or when grid electricity is cheap. In its post Tesla called the heat pump "one of the biggest electrical loads in
Dutch startup Ona has launched a €165 kit that turns an ordinary split air conditioner into a price-aware heater. The idea, described by IO+ on 29 October 2026, is simple: run the air conditioner in the afternoon when electricity is cheap, let the concrete walls, floors and ceilings soak up the heat, and coast through the expensive evening hours on
