Should you wait for Black Friday to buy your Home Assistant hardware? For most of the smart home gear we recommend, the honest answer is no, because the prices that matter barely move. A Zigbee stick that costs $35.90 today sold for $32.31 in August, and a 4-pack of Zigbee bulbs is already under $30. The Black Friday Home Assistant deals worth waiting for are the bigger items, where a listing can swing by $100 or more in a week.
Every pick here comes only from our own Home Assistant buyer guides, which cover mini PCs, Zigbee, Z-Wave and Thread sticks, PoE cameras for Frigate, sensors, smart bulbs, switches, locks and thermostats. We logged the Amazon price of every pick each time we refreshed those guides, so each product below comes with its earlier readings, the current price and a verdict. I pulled every Amazon price on this page on October 31, 2026, and we will check them again as Black Friday gets closer.
Black Friday Home Assistant deals at a glance
Across the 17 guides we re-checked on October 31, three picks show a real drop against our own readings (the Nest Thermostat, the YoLink valve kit and a renewed Amcrest camera that undercuts the new price by $38) and two have gone the wrong way badly enough that you should not buy them at all. Most of the rest sit within a few dollars of their earlier readings, which go back to the summer for the radios and only to late October for the sensors, bulbs and bigger devices. These are the ones we would act on today:
- Buy now: Google Nest Thermostat at $79.00
- Buy now: the renewed Amcrest 4K PoE camera at $76.99
- Buy now, no drop coming: SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24 at $35.90
- Wait: the Beelink Mini S12 Pro, still above its summer price
- Buy direct: Home Assistant Green, out of stock on Amazon
- Avoid: the Eureka J15 Pro Ultra, up from $505.54 to $999.99
- Avoid: the Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2, up from $269.99 to $425.00
Black Friday falls on November 27 this year and Cyber Monday on November 30. Amazon had not announced its own 2026 event dates when we checked on October 31, and the dates other sites print are estimates. If something on this page is already at the price you want, the calendar gives you no reason to hold out, because our logs only start in the summer and hold no holiday history to bet on.
How we tracked these prices
Every Amazon price on this page comes from the Amazon Creators API, the product feed Amazon gives its affiliates, queried for the exact ASIN our guides link. The few direct-store prices (Nabu Casa, Amcrest, AirGradient, Inovelli, Konnected) and the bulb price bands come from the sourcing logs of the guides. Each guide keeps a sourcing log, and every refresh adds a dated reading to it, so some picks have readings back to July and others only from late October. That means “lowest we recorded” is the lowest number in our log, not an all-time low for the listing. We ignore the strikethrough list price on Amazon on purpose, because it is often a price the item never sold at.
Specs come from the guides, which checked them against manufacturer pages and an independent source. We did not install these products for this page, and the guides say plainly that their lab work was software only: Home Assistant integration manifests, Zigbee2MQTT converters, a Thread border router on a simulated radio, and a leak-to-valve automation run with stand-in entities. So read the verdicts below as price calls on hardware we have already vetted on paper, not as new reviews. Each pick on this page meets the same bar:
- A pick in a live Home Assistant buyer guide
- An ASIN that resolves to the exact model
- An earlier price in the sourcing log of that guide
- A fresh Creators API reading on October 31
A product that missed any of those, such as the out-of-stock Zooz stick, stays in the text without a buy link.
Price history for the main picks
Below are the picks that had more than one reading in our logs, plus the ones that changed most. The buy-below column is the price at which we would stop waiting, usually close to the lowest reading we have.
| Pick | Earlier readings | Oct 31, 2026 | Buy below | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beelink Mini S12 Pro | $369 (Sep 9), $429 (Oct 10), $359 (Oct 23) | $359 | $330 | Wait |
| Home Assistant Green | $199 (Aug 10), $219 (Sep to Oct 23) | Out of stock | $199 | Buy direct |
| MeLE Quieter DL | $535.99 (Oct 10), $519.99 (Oct 23) | $519.99, 2 left | $520 | Fair |
| SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24 | $32.31 (Aug 10), $35.90 (Sep 28) | $35.90 | $36 | Buy now |
| SONOFF ZBDongle-E | $22.41 (Aug 10), $24.90 (Sep 28) | $24.90 | $25 | Buy now |
| SONOFF ZBDongle-P | $31.99 (Aug 10) | $39.99 | $32 | Wait |
| Zooz ZST39 Z-Wave stick | $39.95 (Sep 27) | Out of stock | $40 | Wait |
| Reolink RLC-520A | $69.99 (Sep 29, Oct 30) | $69.99 | $70 | Fair |
| Amcrest IP8M-2796EW-AI | $109.99 new (Sep 29) | $76.99 renewed, 3 left | $80 | Buy now |
| YoLink Valve Controller 2 kit | $269.99 (Oct 27) | $216.57 | $220 | Fair, HA via cloud |
| Google Nest Thermostat | $99.99 (October) | $79.00 | $80 | Buy now |
| Kwikset HomeConnect 620 | $148.70 (Oct 27) | $163.99 | $150 | Wait |
| Eureka J15 Pro Ultra | $505.54 (Oct 25) | $999.99 | $510 | Avoid |
| Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 | $269.99 (Oct 19) | $425.00 | $270 | Avoid |
Two patterns stand out when you read down the table. The cheap radios and sensors hold their price within a few dollars, so a Black Friday discount on them saves you less than the shipping on a second order would cost. The swings happen on the bigger tickets: a robot vacuum that doubled between two readings six days apart, a tablet that rose $155, a lock that went up $15 in four days. Those are the listings where a coupon or a price drop on Black Friday can matter, and also where a “deal” can be a reset to a price the item already sold at in October.
1. Mini PCs for Home Assistant
Your Home Assistant box is the one purchase on this page where waiting can pay. Memory prices pushed most mini PCs up through the autumn, and our Black Friday mini PC deals page tracks that across eleven homelab boxes. To judge a sale price against something better than the Amazon list price, our mini PC price baseline by CPU class records what N150, 8845HS and AI Max+ 395 boxes cost on November 1, before the Black Friday sales. Here we only cover the three picks from our Home Assistant mini PC guide that a Home Assistant install actually needs.
Beelink Mini S12 Pro
Beelink Mini S12 Pro is the cheapest x86 box we would run Home Assistant OS on, and it is not cheap right now. Our log shows $369 on September 9, $429 on October 10 and $359 since October 23, with street prices of $296 to $335 back in August. At $359 you are paying $24 to $63 more than it cost in the summer for the same N100 box.
What you get is an Intel N100 with 16GB of DDR4 on a single SO-DIMM, which is also its ceiling, a 500GB M.2 SATA drive and one Gigabit port. Notebookcheck measured the 2023 model at 8.3 to 8.9W idle. That is plenty for Home Assistant OS, Zigbee2MQTT, Mosquitto and a few add-ons. It is not a Frigate box with more than a couple of cameras unless you add a detector, which our Hailo vs Coral comparison covers.
We would set an alert at $330 and wait. If it never comes down before Black Friday, it is still the box we would buy for a first install that might grow into Proxmox later. Check the live Beelink Mini S12 Pro price on Amazon.
Home Assistant Green
Home Assistant Green is the pick when you want the hub to just work and never touch a hypervisor. Nabu Casa lists it at $199. The Amazon listing sold at $199 in August, sat at $219 from September to October 23, and read out of stock on October 31, so we have pulled the Amazon link until it returns at list price.
Inside is a Rockchip RK3566 with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC, powered from a 12V barrel jack rather than USB-C, with two USB 2.0 ports for a Zigbee or Thread stick. You cannot run Proxmox or a camera NVR on it, and that is the point: it does one job. Buy it from a retailer on the official Home Assistant Green page at $199, and do not pay a reseller premium on Amazon when it comes back.
MeLE Quieter DL
MeLE Quieter DL is the fanless option with two Intel I226-V 2.5GbE ports, which makes it the box for a closet or a bedroom shelf, or for a setup that puts IoT devices on their own network port. It read $535.99 on October 10 and $519.99 on October 23 and October 31, with only 2 left on the listing.
At $519.99 it costs about $160 more than the S12 Pro for silence and a second network port. If neither of those matters to you, that money buys a Zigbee stick, a Z-Wave stick and a PoE camera. If you need a 2.5GbE uplink or a quiet box, the current price is the lowest in our log, so we would not wait. Check the live MeLE Quieter DL price on Amazon.
2. Zigbee, Z-Wave and Thread sticks
Radio sticks are the purchase you should not hold for Black Friday. Most cost $25 to $60, the readings in our Zigbee coordinator guide and our Z-Wave 800 stick guide mostly move by a few dollars, and every week without one is a week your sensors are not on the network. The two first-party sticks are a poor buy on Amazon this week: the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 ($49 list) is out of stock there, and the ZWA-2 read $79.00 on Amazon (sold by Nabu Casa), $10 over its $69 list. Buy either from a retailer on the official Home Assistant pages, and look to SONOFF, SMLIGHT, HomeSeer and Aeotec for the Amazon prices below.
SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24
We would order the MG24 as our USB Zigbee stick right now. It uses Silicon Labs’ EFR32MG24, works with ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT, and can be flashed to an OpenThread RCP if you later want it as a Thread radio instead. Our log has it at $35.90 in July, $32.31 on August 10 and $35.90 since September 28.
A Black Friday price under $33 would match the August low, which saves you $3.59. One stick runs Zigbee or Thread, not both at once, so if you want both networks, buy two sticks or look at the dual-radio SMLIGHT below. Either way, a USB extension cable keeps the stick away from the USB 3 noise of the host. Check the live SONOFF MG24 price on Amazon.
SONOFF ZBDongle-E
For the budget Zigbee pick, the ZBDongle-E costs $24.90, and it was $22.41 on August 10, so the gap is small. It runs an EFR32MG21, and the guide notes it ships with firmware that you flash before the Zigbee2MQTT ember driver will use it. If you plan on ZHA instead, our ZHA vs Zigbee2MQTT comparison helps you decide before you plug anything in.
Its CC2652P sibling, the ZBDongle-P, is the one to wait on. It read $31.99 on August 10 and is back at $39.99, which puts it above the newer MG24. Unless you have a Z-Stack network to migrate, the MG24 is the better buy at the current prices. Check the live ZBDongle-E price on Amazon.
SONOFF Z-Wave 800 Dongle Plus
With the Zooz ZST39 out of stock on Amazon, the SONOFF Dongle-PZG23 is the cheapest Z-Wave 800 stick we recommend that Amazon has in stock. It uses an EFR32ZG23 with S2 security and Long Range support, plus an external antenna and a USB extension in the box. It read $39.90 on September 27 and again on October 31.
These three alternatives hold flat too, so pick by setup rather than by price:
- HomeSeer SmartStick G8 at $39.95
- Aeotec Z-Stick 10 Pro, Z-Wave plus Zigbee, at $59.99
- SONOFF Dongle-MZG23 on PoE for a rack or VM host at $44.90
None of them has dropped in our log, so buy whichever fits your setup now. Check the live Dongle-PZG23 price on Amazon.
SMLIGHT SLZB-MR3U
For Zigbee and Thread from one network box, the SLZB-MR3U from our Thread border router guide runs a CC2674P10 for Zigbee and an EFR32MG24 for Thread at the same time, over PoE. The title on the Amazon listing calls the Zigbee chip a CC2652P10, which is wrong, so go by the SMLIGHT spec sheet. It read $103.99 on October 20 and October 31 from a third-party seller, with 7 left.
At $103.99 it costs nearly three MG24 sticks, so buy it only if you want both radios on Ethernet away from the server. Apple and Google homes already have a border router in a streamer: the Google TV Streamer 4K is $149.00, and the new Apple TV 4K is a $289.99 pre-order with a November 13 release date on Amazon. Check the live SLZB-MR3U price on Amazon.
3. PoE cameras for Frigate
Camera prices in our PoE camera guide for Frigate were flat between September 29 and October 31 on every new listing we track. The one real drop is a renewed Amcrest, and one EmpireTech listing is down to 4 units and another is on backorder. If you are building the NVR itself as well, our Frigate NVR appliance build and surveillance drive picks cover the box and the disks.
Reolink RLC-520A
Reolink RLC-520A is the budget camera we would put on a Frigate install, and it has read $69.99 on every check since September 29. It is a 5MP camera on 802.3af PoE, and that resolution matters for Frigate: the Frigate camera docs recommend the http-flv stream for Reolink cameras at 5MP or lower, which is the reliable path on this model.
At $69.99 there is not much left to cut on a 5MP PoE camera. If you need two or three of them, buy one now to set up Frigate and the zones, then pick up the rest if the price dips. Check the live RLC-520A price on Amazon.
EmpireTech IPC-T54PRO-AS
EmpireTech T54PRO-AS is the best overall Frigate camera in the guide, a 4MP turret with a 1/1.8-inch sensor, 60m of IR and a 50m warm light. It needs 802.3at PoE, not 802.3af, so check your switch before you order. It has read $209.99 on September 29, October 30 and October 31.
There is no history of a dip here, so the only reason to wait is if your budget needs one. The full-color sibling, the IPC-Color4M-TL, is $109.99 with 4 left, and the PTZ1A4M-4X-S2 autotracking camera is $194.99 but on backorder from a seller who quotes a delivery date. Check the live T54PRO-AS price on Amazon.
Amcrest IP8M-2796EW-AI (renewed)
Only one camera on this page is a real deal. The new 4K Amcrest listing was $109.99 on September 29 and has since gone out of stock, while the Amcrest store sells it new at $114.99. The renewed listing from Amcrest Direct read $76.99 on October 30 and October 31, with 3 left.
Renewed stock is a used camera that the seller has checked, so we would only buy it for a spot you can reach with a ladder if it ever needs swapping. Its sub stream is VGA, which keeps detection in Frigate cheap, and at $38 under the new price that is a good trade for a driveway or a side gate. Check the live renewed Amcrest price on Amazon.
Reolink Video Doorbell PoE
Reolink Video Doorbell PoE read $119.99 on September 29, October 30 and October 31. It is a 5MP camera on 802.3af with a chime in the box, and it streams H.264 only, which keeps it simple for Frigate and go2rtc.
With no movement in our log, there is no price reason to wait, and no reason to rush if your door is not urgent. Running a PoE cable to the door frame is the hard part of the job, and that takes the same afternoon whatever you pay for the doorbell. Check the live Reolink Video Doorbell PoE price on Amazon.
4. Leak, air quality and smoke sensors
Sensors are cheap and boring, and they are also the devices that pay for the whole system the first time a pipe lets go. These picks come from our guides to leak sensors and shutoff valves, air quality monitors and smoke and CO alarms for Home Assistant. Most of their readings start in late October, so the history is short.
Aqara Water Leak Sensor 3-pack
Aqara sells the 3-pack for $42.99, against $17.99 for a single sensor, so the pack saves you about $11. These are Zigbee sensors that pair with ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT, and three covers the places where a first leak usually starts in a house:
- Under the water heater
- Behind the washing machine
- Under the kitchen sink
Put the sensor flat on the floor at the lowest point, where water pools first, and test each one with a damp cloth after pairing.
If you want the water to stop as well as an alert, the Aqara Valve Controller T1 is a Zigbee actuator at $69.99, flat since October 27. The YoLink Valve Controller 2 kit did drop, from $269.99 on October 27 to $216.57 on October 31. That is a real cut, but its Home Assistant integration is cloud push, so Home Assistant cannot see or command the valve when your internet is down, even though the YoLink hub itself can close it offline, as the kit listing advertises. Check the live Aqara leak sensor 3-pack price on Amazon.
SwitchBot Meter Pro CO2
SwitchBot Meter Pro CO2 is the cheapest NDIR carbon dioxide monitor in our guide, and it talks to Home Assistant over Bluetooth with no hub or account. It read about $60 on October 28 and $59.48 on October 31, a little under its $69.99 list price.
For a more accurate reference sensor, the Aranet4 HOME is $189.00 and has not moved. Do not buy the AirGradient ONE on Amazon, though: the only listing is a third-party seller at $295.00, while AirGradient sells the assembled unit for about $230 on its own store. Check the live SwitchBot Meter Pro CO2 price on Amazon.
Heiman S1-M smoke alarm
Heiman S1-M is a Matter over Thread smoke alarm with a UL 217 listing, which our guide found to be rare among Matter smoke alarms. It read $39.99 on October 28 and October 31. It is a single-station smoke alarm: no carbon monoxide sensor and no built-in interconnect, so a whole-house alarm takes a Home Assistant automation, and the guide logged some mixed pairing reports. You also need a Thread border router for it, so pair it with one of the sticks in section 2. Check the live Heiman S1-M price on Amazon.
You need a separate device for carbon monoxide, and neither of the two CO picks has a lower reading in our log than today. On Z-Wave, $64.98 buys the First Alert SMCO410, which combines smoke and CO in one alarm. On Matter, $47.99 buys the Heiman C1-M CO alarm, listed at $59.99.
5. Smart bulbs and light switches
Bulbs are where you will see the loudest Black Friday percentages and the smallest dollar savings. The picks below come from our smart bulbs for Home Assistant and no-neutral light switch guides, which logged price bands on October 28. Switches are a different story, because the best Zigbee and Z-Wave dimmers we found, the Inovelli range, sell on the Inovelli store at $60 to $70 rather than on Amazon.
ThirdReality ZL1 4-pack
Four Zigbee 3.0 color bulbs for $29.99 is already a Black Friday price, and it sat in a $28 to $32 band when the guide was written. Each ZL1 puts out 800 lumens and acts as a Zigbee router, so the bulbs also extend your mesh for the battery sensors around them.
Bulbs that stay on mains power are the cheapest way to build a strong Zigbee mesh, but only if nobody turns them off at the wall switch. If your household does that, put a switch on the circuit instead and use the bulbs somewhere else. The Philips Hue Essential A19 is $24.99 for one if you want Hue, and the Aqara T2 is $21.99 for Thread. Check the live ThirdReality ZL1 4-pack price on Amazon.
LIFX Color A19
At 1,100 lumens, the LIFX Color A19 is the brightest bulb in the guide, and it read $24.96 on October 31, inside the $20 to $30 band the guide logged on October 28. Amazon shows that as 38% off a $39.99 list, which we would not read as a fresh cut. It runs on Wi-Fi with no hub, and Home Assistant controls it locally by polling each bulb every 10 seconds.
Wi-Fi bulbs are fine in ones and twos, while a whole house of them fills your 2.4GHz network with clients. For that, the Zigbee pack above scales better. The Govee H6008 2-pack is the bulb to skip this week: it read $17 to $20 on October 28 and $24.99 on October 31. Check the live LIFX Color A19 price on Amazon.
Lutron Caseta no-neutral dimmer kit
Caseta is the most forgiving dimmer for an old box with no neutral wire, and the kit math is the deal here. The starter kit with a dimmer, a Pico remote and the Smart Hub is $114.95. Bought separately, the dimmer is $64.95 and the hub is $89.95, so the kit saves you $39.95 and throws in the remote.
The hub is mandatory, because Caseta uses the Lutron Clear Connect radio and Home Assistant talks to the hub on your LAN with local push. Each dimmer handles up to 150W of LED load. After the first kit, every extra switch is just the dimmer. Check the live Lutron Caseta kit price on Amazon.
Aqara Light Switch H2 US
Aqara Light Switch H2 is the cheapest Thread switch we recommend at $45.99, against a $49.99 list. It is on/off only, with no dimming, and it runs Matter over Thread or Zigbee. Without a neutral it needs at least 5W of load on the circuit, so a single low-wattage LED bulb can flicker.
The Zigbee-only Aqara WS-USC01 is $36.99 and supports a decoupled mode, so the paddle can trigger an automation while the smart bulbs on the circuit stay powered. That is the cheaper choice for a Zigbee house. Check the live Aqara H2 price on Amazon.
6. Locks, thermostats, vacuums and the rest
On the bigger devices you will find the real swings, in both directions. Each pick below comes from its own Home Assistant guide, linked in the heading paragraph, and each one shows why you should check the price history before you trust a red “deal” badge.
Google Nest Thermostat
The 2020 Nest Thermostat in Snow is $79.00 against a $129.99 list, and the research for our Home Assistant thermostat guide saw it at $99.99 earlier in October. It joins Home Assistant through Matter over Wi-Fi and works without a C-wire in most homes.
That drop of about $20 makes it the easiest buy on this page for a conventional heating and cooling system. On a heat pump, Google says this model needs a C-wire or its Power Connector, and our guide points bigger heat pump setups to the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) instead. The Z-Wave Honeywell T6 Pro from the same guide is the one to watch: on October 31 its Amazon buy box was a used, like-new unit from a third-party seller. The Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 is $135.99 and needs a C-wire. Check the live Nest Thermostat price on Amazon.
Kwikset HomeConnect 620
Kwikset HomeConnect 620 is the first lock we would buy from our Home Assistant smart lock guide: Z-Wave Long Range with S2 security, so Z-Wave JS controls it locally. It read $148.70 on October 27 and $163.99 on October 31, a $15.29 rise in four days.
You can wait for $150 or less, since it sold there four days earlier. If you want an ANSI Grade 1 deadbolt instead, the Schlage Connect BE469ZP is $184.71 against a $239.99 list, the same price it read on October 27. Check the live Kwikset HomeConnect 620 price on Amazon.
Roborock Qrevo S Pro
Our robot vacuum guide for Home Assistant picks the Qrevo S Pro because the core Roborock integration talks to it on your LAN, polling every 30 seconds. You still need a Roborock account for setup, and the Home Assistant docs note that the robot blocks its local API without internet and fetches maps through the cloud. It is $499.99 against a $699.99 list, the same price it read on October 25.
Our log has only one reading before today, so we cannot tell you whether $499.99 is a floor; set an alert below it and hold unless the floor needs it now. And do not buy the Eureka J15 Pro Ultra from that guide at the current price: it was $505.54 on October 25 and $999.99 on October 31. Check the live Roborock Qrevo S Pro price on Amazon.
Amazon Fire HD 10
For a wall dashboard on a budget, the 13th generation Fire HD 10 from our Home Assistant dashboard tablet guide was $72.99 against a $154.99 list on October 31, the same price it read on October 19. That is less than half the list price, and for a screen that only shows a dashboard, buy it at that price as soon as it is back in stock.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A11+ at $299.99 is the better tablet for a kiosk that stays on the charger all day, because it runs Google Play apps such as Fully Kiosk Browser alongside the Home Assistant Companion app. Skip the Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 for now: it was $269.99 on October 19 and $425.00 on October 31 from a seller quoting a later delivery date. When we re-checked on November 6, Amazon listed the Fire HD 10 as currently unavailable, so wait for it to come back in stock.
Konnected GDO blaQ
Konnected GDO blaQ from our garage door controller guide talks Security+ 1.0 and 2.0 to the opener and runs ESPHome, so it works without myQ. It does not support Security+ 3.0, the openers with a white learn button, so check the button color before you order. It is $89.00 on Amazon, the same as on the Konnected store, but the listing showed only 1 left on October 31.
If the Amazon unit is gone, buy from Konnected at the same price rather than from a reseller. For a cheaper DIY route on an opener with a dry-contact button, the Shelly 1 Gen4 relay is $27.99. Check the live GDO blaQ price on Amazon.
Autel MaxiCharger Home 50A
Our EV charger guide for Home Assistant picks the Autel for value because its app lets you point it at your own OCPP server, which is how evcc and Home Assistant take control of charging. It is $499.00 against a $569 list, the same as on October 27.
Chargers are a big enough ticket that a holiday cut is worth waiting for if your car is not arriving this month. The Wallbox Pulsar Plus is $699.00 with 13 left, and its core integration uses the Wallbox cloud, so the local route is OCPP there too. Check the live Autel MaxiCharger price on Amazon.
GLEDOPTO GL-C-618WL
For holiday lights on the roofline, our WLED controller guide picks this four-output ESP32 board with Ethernet and a pluggable fuse. It read $35.59 on October 28 and October 31.
This is the one item where the season matters more than the price. If you want the lights up for December, order the controller and the power supply now and wire them on a dry weekend, rather than chasing a few dollars off on November 27. Check the live GL-C-618WL price on Amazon.
What a starter Home Assistant kit costs right now
Adding up the picks shows where your money actually goes. We priced a local-only starter kit at the October 31 readings: a hub, a Zigbee stick, four bulbs, three leak sensors and a CO2 monitor.
| Item | With Beelink S12 Pro | With Home Assistant Green |
|---|---|---|
| Hub | $359.00 | $199.00 (direct, list price) |
| SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24 | $35.90 | $35.90 |
| ThirdReality ZL1 4-pack | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Aqara leak sensor 3-pack | $42.99 | $42.99 |
| SwitchBot Meter Pro CO2 | $59.48 | $59.48 |
| Total | $527.36 | $367.36 |
The hub is 68% of the S12 Pro kit, and everything else adds up to $168.36. So if you are going to wait for anything, wait on the hub and buy the radios and sensors now, because a perfect Black Friday on those four items would save you under $6 if they fell back to the August stick price and the bottom of the bulb band. Adding Frigate is a separate budget: two RLC-520A cameras and the PoE doorbell come to $259.97 before the PoE switch and the disk.
Listings that went the wrong way this week
Tracking prices pays off most when it catches listings that changed under the same link. On our October 31 pass, these are the ones we would not buy from, even if a Black Friday badge shows up on them:
- Eureka J15 Pro Ultra: $505.54 to $999.99 between readings six days apart
- Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2: $269.99 to $425.00, delivery-date seller
- Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave: buy box is a used unit
- AirGradient ONE: $295.00 third party, about $230 direct
- SMLIGHT SLZB-MR3U: wrong chip in the Amazon title
The Eureka case is the pattern to watch on Black Friday. A listing that sold at $505.54 can be marked up to $999.99 and then “discounted” back to $600 with a 40% badge, and the badge will be true against the new price. Before you pay, compare the deal against the readings in the table on this page or in the guide behind the pick. If the “sale” price is higher than what the item sold for in October, it is not a sale.
A second trap is quieter and costs more in the long run. A cheaper listing of a lock, camera or valve can be a cloud-only version or a regional model, and the YoLink valve shows that a real price cut does not fix a cloud dependency. Our guides name the exact model and ASIN for a reason, so check that the listing you land on matches the one we linked before you add it to the cart.
