Aqara has added two lights to its Matter range in China: an E14 version of the LED Bulb T2 and a multicolour LED Strip T2. Matter Alpha reported the launch on 21 October 2026, citing Aqara's Chinese channels. Neither product has a global release date yet.
Aqara has added an outdoor smart plug to its European range. The Outdoor Plug H2 EU (model SP-P06E) was announced on the Aqara forum on 20 October 2026, and Aqara's EU store lists it at €32.99. According to HomeKit News, the standard model can already be ordered from Amazon in Germany, France, Spain and Italy. There is also an RGB version with a mu
Shelly USA opened North American sales of the Shelly Presence Gen4 on 15 October 2026. The mmWave radar presence sensor is $84.99 at us.shelly.com and is due at Micro Center, Best Buy, Newegg and Amazon soon. In Europe the same model (S4SN-0U61X) already sells for €69.90 in Shelly's EU store, so this is a regional launch rather than a brand-new pro
Firmware 1.0.5 for Sonoff's TP-WGZBA, the Zigbee wall thermostat sold as Thermostat Core, was added to zigpy-ota on 15 October 2026. zigpy-ota is the firmware collection used by zigpy, the library behind Home Assistant's ZHA integration, and the image shipped the same day in the collection's 2026.10.2 release on the stable channel.
On 15 October 2026 Arduino presented Zigbee support for the Nano Matter board. Until now, sketches for its Silicon Labs MGM240S module could use Matter over Thread or Bluetooth LE. Version 5.0.0 of the Arduino core for Silicon Labs, released on 15 September, adds a third option. In the Arduino IDE you pick Zigbee under Tools › Protocol stack, and t
Two separate fixes landed on 14 October 2026 for Sonoff's S60 smart plugs, and both deal with the same weak spot: small loads. If you track a phone charger, a router or an LED lamp on one of these plugs, the readings have probably looked wrong.
Exaviz released firmware 1.2.0 for the radio on its Cruiser boards on 14 October 2026. It adds a Zigbee mode: the ESP32-C6 module on the board can now be the Zigbee coordinator for Home Assistant, with no USB dongle.
Most Zigbee problems in Home Assistant look like device problems: a sensor that will not pair, a remote that responds a second late, a motion sensor that drops off every few days. The Home Assistant documentation traces many of them to the same few causes upstream: an outdated coordinator or old firmware, interference where the adapter is plugged i
M5Stack launched the ToughC5 on 10 October 2026, a rugged outdoor IoT controller built on Espressif's ESP32-C5. CNX Software priced it at $49.90 on AliExpress and the official M5Stack store. It replaces the 2021 ESP32-based TOUGH with dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE and IEEE 802.15.4 for Zigbee and Thread, plus a brighter power and expansion stor
