Red weather alert for Wales as Storm Darragh to hit
Gusts of 90mph or more are possible and people are being warned to look out for flying debris. 
© 2024 BBCWorld 1:15am Reopening of popular Northland tourist attraction delayed
Challenging weather conditions and “difficulties sourcing specialist materials” has seen the reopening date for Tane Mahuta pushed back.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Fri 9:25am Live: Hope Canterbury fire can be halted as weather cools, rain forecast
Efforts are ramping back up to fight the Castle Hill blaze, which remains uncontained and out of control.
© 2024 RadioNZ Fri 8:15am lve: Optimism as Canterbury weather cools, rain forecast
Efforts are ramping back up to fight the Castle Hill blaze, which remains uncontained and out of control.
© 2024 RadioNZ Fri 7:35am Heavy rain and gales set to hit UK as weather warnings issued
Three Met Office yellow warnings for wind and rain cover large parts of the UK with areas of low pressure set to bring heavy rain and gales.
© 2024 BBCWorld Thu 12:15am Wellington the least sunny major city in November, Tauranga takes the crown for warmest
Much of the country had calm and settled weather over the course of the month, with lower than normal rainfall.
© 2024 Stuff.co.nz Wed 8:35pm Eve finally fulfills a promise to Android smart home users
After years of waiting, smart home manufacturer Eve Systems has finally given its Android customers what they really wanted: an app.
More than two years in the making, the Eve app for Android promises to unlock smart features that were previously available only to iOS users, according to The Verge.
But before you get too excited about controlling your Eve devices with Android, there’s a big caveat to the news. For now, the new Eve for Android app works only with a single device: the Eve Thermo, a smart radiator valve that’s only available in Europe.
Oh, and one more thing: The Android version of the Eve app only works with Google Home for now.
Eve CEO Jerome Gackel told The Verge that the company hopes to address those issues in “future versions,” but wanted to release the Thermo-only version of the app in time for the winter weather months.
Android users have already been able to control Eve’s smart home devices via the Google Home app thanks to Matter, the smart home-unifying standard.
But that meant Android users were limited to only those smart home controls that are exposed in the Matter protocol. The Eve app offers features that go above and beyond what’s possible (for now, at least) with Matter, including the ability to create on-device automations that don’t depend on the cloud, The Verge notes.
Eve makes some of our very good smart home devices, including the Eve Door and Window contact sensor, Eve Weather (a smart weather station), the Eve Energy smart plug, and the Eve Water Guard water-leak detector.
For years, Eve devices were exclusive to Apple HomeKit, leaving Android smart home users out in the cold.
That began to change with the arrival of Matter in 2023, with Eve releasing versions of Eve Energy, Eve Door and Window, and Eve Motion with out-of-the-box Matter support.
Eve originally announced the belated version of its Android app months before its first Matter devices arrived, way back in September 2022.
The new Android app is built around Google Home’s relatively new APIs, which arrived back in May—hence, it doesn’t integrate with Alexa or Samsung SmartThings, or at least not yet.
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