Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

This means we might soon see some useful gadgets leveraging the free-to-use protocol that covers 90 percent of the US population (thanks to being embedded in practically every Echo smart speaker ever made.)

All I really want is that pet tracker Amazon promised us.

Available for iOS and Android, the app provides a quick glance at the real-time “feels like” heat index wherever you are along with hourly forecasts. It can also set up reminders to hydrate and rest and has a symptom checker and first-aid tips if you start feeling sick.

Trident IoT is a boutique silicon engineering firm / one-stop shop for smart home device makers. It plans to provide silicon solutions and engineering expertise for all the protocols, plus help with those arduous Works With certifications.

But it’s kicking off with Z-Wave and will be the first third-party chipmaker to offer Z-Wave sillicon since the protocol opened its source code last year. Read Stacey Higginbotham’s analysis for more on why this ... matters.

There are few details, other than a new square shape (the first-gen was circular) and the addition of 5 GHz Wi-Fi. Based on Eve’s other cameras, it’ll likely support Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video. But no Matter yet — the smart home standard still doesn’t work with cameras.

Especially if it uses Thread, which has specific requirements you need to know in order to use that new smart light bulb, motion sensor, or smart plug. Here’s everything you need to know to set up a Matter-over-Thread device in your smart home.