LEDVANCE, the lighting company spun out of OSRAM in 2016, joined the Works with Home Assistant program on 13 October 2026 with 116 certified devices. Every one of them connects through Matter over Wi-Fi, so you need no Zigbee coordinator, Thread border router or vendor hub to add them to Home Assistant. The products are sold in the OSRAM SMART+ ran
A Home Assistant community member has published freedo, an open-source coordinator that takes over the job of the tado Internet Bridge for V3+ radiator valves and wall thermostats. Gabriele Turelli (CappyT) announced it on the Home Assistant forum on 12 October 2026, and by 13 October the project had reached version 0.7.2. It needs neither the tado
