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Role: You are a senior engineer and privacy-focused curator specializing in self-hosted Home Automation (Home Assistant ecosystem). Goal: Your primary objective is to filter out commercial noise and isolate critical, technical updates for power users. Signal (Include): * Core Hardware & Standards: New or critical information regarding **Matter/Thread** compatibility, **Raspberry Pi** releases, Zigbee/Z-Wave stack updates, and ESPHome tutorials. * Breaking Changes: Must alert on any breaking changes or major new feature flags for **Home Assistant** and OpenHAB. * DIY Projects: Technical deep dives on sensors, local APIs, and soldering projects. Noise (Strictly Ignore): * Commercial/Marketing Slop: **MUST** discard all articles focused on Ring, Nest, Alexa, or devices requiring a mandatory cloud subscription. * General Content: Strictly exclude basic "beginner's guides" and generic "best smart speaker" roundups. * Speculative Articles: Ignore articles about "futuristic homes" or non-released concept tech.
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Espressif Systems has published a bug advisory for ESP32-C5 chips, identifying and fixing three bugs related to PSRAM and sleep coexistence stability, including the PSRAM Reset Hang issue.
🧭 Cnx-software🗓️ 2026-02-28 04:26
The M5Stack Unit PoE-P4 is a development kit based on the ESP32-P4NRW32 SoC, offering PoE power (up to 6W), 10/100Mbps Ethernet, MIPI DSI/CSI interfaces, and USB-C connectivity. It is designed for network-enabled applications and includes features like an RGB LED, IR transmitter, and Grove port.
🧭 Cnx-software🗓️ 2026-02-27 10:28
Arduino released the Arduino Matter Discovery Bundle (AKX00081), a development kit for building Matter-over-Thread smart home devices. It is based on the Arduino Nano Matter board and compatible with Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Home Assistant. The bundle includes a Nano Connector C…
🧭 Cnx-software🗓️ 2026-02-26 11:26
The EXAVIZ Cruiser is a mini-ITX carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5. It features up to nine Ethernet ports (including one 2.5GbE and up to eight GbE PoE+), two HDMI 2.0 outputs, two SATA ports, an M.2 PCIe Gen2/3 x1 socket, three USB 3.0 ports, and four USB 2.0 interfaces. It is designed for NVR…
🧭 Cnx-software🗓️ 2026-02-26 08:26
To address privacy concerns with always-on voice assistants, [SpannerSpencer] created a metal Comm Badge, inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation, to control his smart home.
🧭 Hackaday🗓️ 2026-02-25 17:13
The Telink ML9118A is a 32-bit RISC-V wireless IoT module supporting Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and 802.15.4 (Zigbee/Thread/Matter). It features a 160 MHz microcontroller with 576KB SRAM and 4MB flash, and includes interfaces like SDIO 3.0, GPIOs, I2C, SPI, UART, and I2S. It is designed for smart home,…
🧭 Cnx-software🗓️ 2026-02-25 15:16
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2, an official generative AI PCIe add-on for Raspberry Pi 5, was released on 15 January 2026. It features a Hailo-10H AI accelerator with up to 40 TOPS of inference performance and 8GB of dedicated memory, enabling local vision and small generative AI workloads.
🧭 Raspberrypi🗓️ 2026-02-25 13:08
Heiman, a smart home security device company founded in 2005, has joined the Works with Home Assistant program. They are adding safety-focused sensors and alarms, including the first Matter-certified carbon monoxide alarms, to the program.
🧭 Home-assistant🗓️ 2026-02-24 11:40
The Louder Raspberry Hat Plus is a 2.1-channel audio HAT for Raspberry Pi, upgraded from the TAS5805M to the TAS5825M amplifier. The TAS5825M can deliver up to 53W in mono (PBTL) mode and offers improved efficiency and thermal performance. It is compatible with all Raspberry Pi models.
🧭 Cnx-software🗓️ 2026-02-20 11:13
OpenClaw is an open source AI agent being tested on Raspberry Pi. It is similar to generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, using large language models (LLMs) to respond to prompts. It offers benefits such as data privacy, reduced latency, and elimination of API costs.
🧭 Raspberrypi🗓️ 2026-02-19 11:03
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