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Royalty-free smart-home connectivity standard from the Connectivity Standards Alliance, letting devices interoperate across ecosystems.
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The Roomba Max 875 leads on a sealing mechanism rather than a Pascal rating, but the same mechanism ships in the $899 model, which leaves the flagship premium resting on heated mist and two extra liters of air per second.
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MindBase runs its own inference on an in-house LLM, which is how Anker gets to promise no monthly fee. The cameras that feed it are orderable now, while the hub still carries no price and no ship date.
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The new Model Context Protocol endpoint reaches every device and the whole event history in Google Home, but only for US subscribers on the paid Premium Advanced tier, and Google is shipping it as early access.
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Homey's new Device Updates panel patches Matter, Z-Wave and Zigbee gear from one app. For Matter devices the firmware metadata comes from the certification body's public registry, which any Matter controller can read.
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Ugreen's three-tier hub line tops out at a Jetson Thor box rated up to 2,070 TOPS. Its cheapest model charges roughly seven times more per TOPS than that flagship does. All three are currently half price.
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The Eufy MindBase runs an Anker-built LLM on a hub with up to 48TB of local storage, turning a claim about where your footage goes into something an outsider can measure. Anker has not said what it costs.
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The module carries a full Hue radio stack. That is why it took 18 months of engineering instead of a Matter profile. It also currently switches off the music sync and screen mirroring that owners bought the panels for.
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PR #5554 adds com.codename1.home so application code asks for BRIGHTNESS instead of carrying a HomeKit characteristic and a Matter cluster, with the port taking on the unit conversions and the availability states that come with them.
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Hands-free ultra-wideband entry now has more than one vendor. The newer, pricier lock has fewer unlocking options, no fingerprint reader, and no physical key.
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Mozilla shut a product it bought in 2017 because browsing habits had changed. Users answered by paying someone else for the same feature.
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