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Open-source home automation platform that lets users locally control and integrate smart home devices from many brands.
QGIS has banned all LLM, AI and agent assisted code in qgis/qgis, on master as of October 7 under QEP #387. Asked how compliance will work, a core contributor pointed to the contributor's own conscience, a dev.to analysis reports.
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Home Assistant is renaming its $6.50-a-month Cloud subscription to Link while keeping its features the same. The steep learning curve that stands between it and mainstream buyers is left to tools the company has not shipped yet.
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Weber has switched off the app and cloud behind the June Oven, removing the smart features from an oven that launched at $1,495. Weber kept the code because June's IP sits inside its Weber Connect platform, so owners have no official way to get those features back.
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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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A retired 2014 Galaxy Note 4 runs an open-source marine forecast service on Termux at 1.2 watts from the wall. Getting the draw that low took replacing a 1.5 second polling loop with a 20 second long poll.
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A dev.to walkthrough of ESPHome voice satellites puts an ESP32-S3 node's perceived speed in the whole capture-to-playback path. It treats the platform's own RAM and BLE warning as a limit on what else that node can own.
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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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Pen Test Partners recovered a family's locked encrypted Excel file in under a minute once relatives recalled the password format. The hygiene was right; the handover did not exist.
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