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Zigbee is a low-power wireless mesh networking standard used widely in smart home devices like sensors, lights, and hubs.
A free app update switches on Wi-Fi motion sensing in millions of XB7-or-newer Xfinity gateways. No new hardware, no installer visit, and a new sensing surface inside the house.
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The $80 sensor tracks ten people over Thread or Zigbee with no internet needed, but Aqara told Gizmodo that the standing, sitting and lying detection it once promised for the FP400 is now a job for a separate FP400 Pro.
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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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