Seeed Studio announced two assembled e-paper displays on 3 November 2026, built together with the open-source OpenDisplay project. The OpenDisplay 4.26" Mono Kit costs $39.90 and the 7.3" Color Kit costs $75.90. Both are sold in Seeed's own store and on AliExpress.
Synology published a warning on 29 October 2026: attackers are exploiting a vulnerability the company patched in December 2024 to break into NAS drives running outdated versions of DSM, its operating system, then encrypt the data and demand a ransom. On 2 November BleepingComputer linked the attacks to the C3RB3R ransomware. Synology rarely issues
A SmartThings community developer who goes by Stoeckie published an Edge driver on 30 October 2026 that lets a SmartThings hub control iRobot Roomba vacuums directly on the local network. The hub talks to the robot over the robot's own MQTT broker, with TLS on port 8883. There is no cloud service, no IFTTT and no extra computer in between. The code
Turning something on and off is the first real job most people give an ESP32. A blue relay board costs little, the code is one digitalWrite(), and the lamp clicks on. Then the relay clicks every time the board reboots, the module will not switch off from a 3.3 V pin, or a small LED bulb keeps glowing behind a solid-state relay that is supposedly of
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.
The OpenThread project published OpenThread Border Router (ot-br-posix) v2026.11.0 on 1 November 2026. This is the open-source border router that many Thread setups run underneath, including Home Assistant's OpenThread Border Router add-on and plenty of DIY builds on a Raspberry Pi with a radio co-processor. The monthly release has two changes wort
eWeLink published CUBE 2.15.0 on 29 October 2026. CUBE is the self-hosted, local version of the eWeLink platform behind Sonoff devices. It runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, in a virtual machine, on some NAS models, in Docker, and through one-click installers for Windows and Mac. It talks to Zigbee devices through a USB dongle and can expose them to ot
A lot of energy hardware already has a local data interface that often goes unused: DIN-rail energy meters, solar inverters, heat pumps and ventilation units often speak Modbus. The protocol comes from industrial controllers and needs no cloud or account. Once it works, you can poll voltage, power and energy counters as often as the device allows.
DJI released Local Data Mode for its ROMO 2 robot vacuums on 29 October 2026. With the mode switched on, the DJI Home app stops talking to the internet, and the maps, images and other data the robot uses for navigation and obstacle avoidance are stored and processed on the device itself instead of in DJI's cloud.
