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  • October 18, 2021

UPDATE 2: A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative

Pairing Zigbee devices caused the ZB-GW03 to reboot under Zigbee2Tasmota. The unofficial tasmota32-zigbeebridge firmware fixes it.

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  • October 15, 2021

UPDATE: A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative

A pair of Tasmota rules that work around the ZB-GW03 failing to reconnect to Home Assistant's ZHA after a power loss.

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  • October 9, 2021

Making an Automatic Email Backup - Part 2

Adding self-signed SSL certificates to Dovecot and installing Roundcube, so the local mail archive is reachable from any browser on the network.

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  • October 4, 2021

Making an Automatic Email Backup - Part 1

Automatically backing up a remote IMAP mailbox to a home server with mbsync, then serving the archive locally with Dovecot so any mail client can read it.

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  • October 3, 2021

Controlling Home Assistant with an Old Remote

Using a Flirc USB IR receiver to turn old infrared remotes into Home Assistant controllers via keyboard events.

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  • October 2, 2021

Playing a sound directly from Home Assistant Operating System

Playing a door chime through a speaker plugged into the Home Assistant box itself, using the VLC add-on over telnet.

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  • October 2, 2021

How to Use Zigbee2Tasmota with Home Assistant

Using a Tasmota Zigbee coordinator directly with Zigbee2Tasmota and MQTT in Home Assistant, instead of ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT.

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  • September 29, 2021

The Birth of a Smart Home

How a couple of smart plugs turned into a Proxmox server, VLANs, and a fully self-hosted smart home: the network behind this blog.

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  • September 29, 2021

A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative

Compiling and flashing Tasmota onto the EACHEN eWeLink ZB-GW03, an ESP32-based Zigbee bridge with Ethernet, for a wired coordinator that works with ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT.

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