Singapore's year-end school holidays run 21 Nov to 31 Dec. Set up your HDB smart home for kids home alone: lock logs, an 'I'm home' button and smoke alerts.
Home Assistant 2026.9 adds a Matter network map showing Thread and Wi-Fi devices, border routers and signal strength in one topology view. How to read it in a Singapore HDB, the four failure patterns it exposes, and which Thread border routers are actually worth buying here.
Aqara's IFA 2026 lighting range runs both Thread and Zigbee, but not at the same time — you pick one at setup and switching means a factory reset. What the five new lights actually are, why mains-powered lights make the best Thread mesh in an HDB, and which protocol to choose before you install.
We compare the Aqara Hub M3 and Home Assistant Green for Singapore HDB smart homes. Discover which local controller handles privacy, Thread, and concrete walls best.