On November 3, 2026 Nordic Semiconductor announced the nRF71 Series, its first system-on-chip that puts Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread and an application processor on a single die. Until now Nordic's Wi-Fi parts (the nRF70 Series) were companion chips that needed a separate host MCU. Nordic says the nRF71 uses up to 20 times less power in standby than
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.
FRITZ! GmbH, the Berlin company formerly known as AVM, announced on 2 November 2026 that its FRITZ!Smart Energy 201 smart plug is now in shops. The recommended retail price is €49. It is an indoor plug, small enough to fit into a power strip, with a single combined LED and button.
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.
When a Matter controller pairs a new device, it checks the device's identity before letting it in. The device presents a Device Attestation Certificate (DAC), signed by a Product Attestation Intermediate (PAI), plus a Certification Declaration (CD) signed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance. On 31 October 2026 matter.js, the open-source TypeScri
TP-Link has started selling the Tapo T150 in Poland. The Polish press release went out on 28 October 2026, a week after the sensor launched in South Korea on 22 October. The price is about 150 zł, with a two-year warranty.
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.
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
NXP presented two new wireless microcontrollers on 27 October 2026: the MCX W70 for industrial and IoT products and the KW43 for cars. Both support Bluetooth Channel Sounding, the Bluetooth 6.0 feature that measures the distance between two devices. The MCX W70 is the one smart home makers will look at, because its radio also runs Zigbee, Thread fo
