Wayne Du Bruyn

Most people who ask me about KNX topology ask about lines. How many devices fit on one, how far a run can go, that kind of thing. Almost nobody asks about the small grey module sitting quietly between two lines, doing two jobs at once. That's the line coupler, and it's worth understanding properly, because it's also where KNX just changed how installers are allowed to work. What a coupler actually does A line coupler sits between a main line and a subordinate line (or, one level up, between...

Anker stood on stage at IFA in Berlin this week and made the exact pitch I've been making to clients for years: your footage should never leave your house. The product is called MindBase. It's an AI home hub with up to 48TB of local, expandable storage for camera recordings, household files and photos. No monthly fee to keep your doorbell clips. No data centre somewhere holding video of your kitchen. CEO Steven Yang framed it around three things the home needs: connection, local intelligence,...

At 3:36am ET on 18 August 2026, Nest Hubs around the world froze mid-loading and stayed that way for almost twelve hours. The hardware was never the problem. Here's what the outage exposes about cloud-dependent smart homes, and why KNX doesn't have that failure point.