Z-Wave JS, the driver behind Home Assistant's Z-Wave integration and Z-Wave JS UI, has fixed a way for one device on the network to raise alarms on behalf of another. The change by Dominic Griesel (AlCalzone), the project's lead developer, was merged into the main branch on 22 October 2026.
Home Assistant can hand Wi-Fi credentials to a new Shelly device over Bluetooth, so you don't have to join the device's own access point from your phone. Until now the last screen of that flow asked two questions: whether to switch off the device's Wi-Fi access point and whether to switch off Bluetooth RPC once the device was on the network. A chan
DietPi, a lightweight Debian-based Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi and other single-board computers, released version 10.8 on 21 October 2026. heise reported on it on 27 October. DietPi is a common base for small home servers: its software installer includes Home Assistant, openHAB, Domoticz, Homebridge, Scrypted and TasmoAdmin. The main ad
Wyze launched the Solar Cam on 20 October 2026 as part of its "Wyze Week" announcements. It is a fixed outdoor camera with a 2K sensor, a 5,200 mAh battery and a 1.77 W solar panel in the box, sold in the US for $69.98. The same camera without the panel, which Wyze's forum announcement presents as the Wyze Battery Cam, costs $10 less. Both are also
The first release candidate of Home Assistant OS 18.4 came out on 20 October 2026 and is already offered on the beta channel. The developers call it a small bugfix and security release, mostly cleaning up kernel regressions introduced in 18.3. Two changes stand out: release images now come with a signature you can check, and the VLAN problem on Rea
Baseus has put the PrimeSentinel U2 Pro Outdoor 3K Dual Camera on sale, an outdoor battery camera with a motorised spotlight that aims a beam at a detected person and keeps it on them as they move. The Verge reported on 20 October 2026 that it costs $269.99 on Amazon in the US and €269.99 in Europe, where sales started on 15 October. US prices diff
Owners of the new Google Home Speaker have been finding that it pulls huge amounts of data from Google's servers while sitting idle. 9to5Google reported the problem on 19 October 2026 (US time) after several user reports over the previous week, and Google told the site that "a fix is already rolling out that should address this for users." Google h
Every Matter device has to carry its own Device Attestation Certificate (DAC), which a controller checks during setup to confirm the device is genuine and certified. Getting those certificates and their private keys onto each unit is a job of its own for manufacturers. On 20 October 2026 STMicroelectronics launched ST MatterConnect, a service that
A Z-Wave network in Home Assistant has four parts: an adapter plugged into the server, a Z-Wave server (on Home Assistant OS, the Z-Wave JS app, formerly an add-on), the Z-Wave integration, and the devices. The first device usually joins within minutes. Most problems show up later and trace back to a few early decisions: which adapter you bought, w
