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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

Senior Reviewer, Smart Home

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    Eve’s compact weather station gets Matter support.

    The Eve Weather — a battery-powered E ink display that can measure temperature, humidity, and your weather trend — is now available in a Matter version. Existing devices can be upgraded to the new smart home standard.

    Matter brings compatibility with Google Home, Samsung SmartThings and Amazon Alexa, along with Apple Home. The device costs $79.95 and works with Thread. Eve has committed to upgrading all of its Thread devices to Matter.

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    <em>The Eve Weather now supports Matter.</em>
    <em>The E ink display show the 12 hour weather trend, temperature and humidity.</em>
    <em>Existing Eve Weather devices can be upgraded to Matter and new devices will come Matter-enabled. The Apple HomeKit-only version will continue to be sold.</em>
    <em>The Eve app, which is still iOS-only, records weather data over time.</em>
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    The Eve Weather now supports Matter.
    Image: Eve Systems
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    Lutron’s latest Diva deals with your more dramatic lighting.

    The new $130 Diva smart dimmer for ELV+ lighting brings higher-tech lighting control to the Caseta smart lighting line’s new look.

    Designed for low-voltage fixtures like under-cabinet, track, accent, and tape lighting, it costs twice as much as the standard dimmer but offers phase-selectable dimming.

    Lutron also launched its Caseta Pico paddle remote in five new colors.

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    The new dimmer controls electronic low-voltage loads and supports LED, MLV, incandescent, and halogen lighting. It can also deal with humming and flickering issues.
    <em>The wireless Pico Paddle remote, which can act as a second switch anywhere, is now available in black, light almond, ivory, gray, brown, and white.</em>
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    The new dimmer controls electronic low-voltage loads and supports LED, MLV, incandescent, and halogen lighting. It can also deal with humming and flickering issues.
    Image: Lutron
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    Philips Hue rolls out a fix for its Matter-related bug.

    The company tells us an update for the Philips Hue Bridge, which addresses the issue that caused lights to randomly turn to full brightness, is now available and rolling out over the next few days.

    If you have automatic updates on you don’t need to do anything, otherwise you can manually install the update through the Hue app when it’s available.

    Why your Philips Hue bulb is randomly setting itself to 100 percent brightness

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    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    First, Apple put Thread in the iPhone, now the smart home radio could be coming to Android phones.

    Mishaal Rahman reports that Android 15 adds a Thread Network Stack to allow Android smartphones with Thread radios to directly control Thread smart home devices.

    But there aren’t any such phones yet. Only the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max have Thread. With the Pixel 9 launching next month, that could soon change.

    Android 15 will let you control your Matter smart home devices over Thread, but only on some phones

    [Android Authority]

    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Apple TV’s InSight can instantly add tracks to your Apple Music library.

    According to reports from beta testers, the new InSight feature announced at WWDC has appeared in the latest developer beta of iOS 18 and tvOS 18.

    InSight pops up details about actors, characters, and songs appearing onscreen in original Apple TV Plus shows. These also show on your iPhone, from where it appears to be easy to add songs to your library. Neat.

    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    If your Philips Hue bulbs have been acting wonky, don’t worry there’s a fix coming.

    Apparently, the company messed up something with its Matter implementation, causing some lights to randomly turn up to full brightness. But they’ve identified the problem, and an update should be rolling out this week.

    Why your Philips Hue bulb is randomly setting itself to 100 percent brightness

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