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Aliro kills the key 🔑, LoRa-powered home from a war zone 📡, OpenAI builds a smart speaker 🔊👁️
February 27, 2026
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Platforms & Ecosystem Blatant Design Flaw: How DJI’s “Romo” Robot Vacuum Became a Global Security Risk
Platforms & Ecosystem Backed by Apple, Aliro 1.0 aims to do for enterprise access control what Matter did for the smart home - 9to5Mac
Platforms & Ecosystem Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options | TechCrunch
Platforms & Ecosystem Sonos Bets on Live Activities to Finally Crack the iPhone Control Problem
February 20, 2026 Ring wants to "zero out crime" 👁️, Shelly repels mosquitoes 🦟, baby monitoring via sock 🧒🧦February 13, 2026 FBI recovers "deleted" Nest video 🔍, Star Trek smart home panel 🖖, eero's internet backup plan 📶February 6, 2026 IKEA Thread troubles 😬, mold-predicting automations 🍄, community-powered device database 📈
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A few years ago, everyone was talking about mmWave sensors and I'd completely missed it. Even when you're active in the community, it's easy to fall behind during those weeks when life gets busy. That sparked the idea for this newsletter.
I'm Daniel. I've been deep in the smart home world for 8+ years and I build open source integrations used by thousands. Every week, I go through blogs, forums, Reddit, and news sites anyway. The best stuff ends up here.
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