Govee has released the second generation of its Outdoor Deck Lights in the US. The set (model H3401) has ten individual lights that you screw or stick onto a fence, wall or deck railing, and it works with Matter. Notebookcheck reported the launch on 18 October 2026, Dandy Gadget gives 16 October as the US release date, and T3 covered it on 22 Octob
Wyze has launched the Bulb Cam Pan Color, a security camera built into a colour smart bulb. The Verge reported the launch on 22 October 2026, and the camera is listed in Wyze's store for $99.98, twice the price of the original $49.98 Bulb Cam from last year. The new model adds a motor, so the camera can turn and follow whatever it is tracking.
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
Amazon's Blink announced five new security cameras on 21 October 2026. Three of them are firsts for the brand: its first 4K camera, its first battery-powered camera with a spotlight and its first pan-tilt model. All five can be preordered in the US. Only the Mini 4K+ and the Mini Pan-Tilt 2K+ are also listed for Europe, in Germany, France, Italy, S
Home Assistant is building its own desktop app for installing Home Assistant OS, and on 21 October 2026 it published the first two test builds. The Home Assistant Installer (HAI in the repository) is a cross-platform application that flashes SD cards for the Raspberry Pi, ODROID and other boards, installs on generic x86-64 and ARM64 mini PCs, flash
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
SwitchBot announced its Permanent Outdoor Lights on 20 October 2026: a 30-metre string of lights meant to stay under the eaves, a balcony or a pergola all year. It is on sale now from SwitchBot's website and Amazon at a list price of US$239.99 (CA$299.99). HomeKit News quotes US$189.99 with a coupon. SwitchBot has not announced European pricing.
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
