Series
Some topics here ran long enough to need more than one post.
Making an Automatic Email Backup
Keeping a local, self-hosted copy of a remote IMAP account with mbsync and Dovecot — from the first working sync, to Docker images that do it for you, to one tested stack with fast search.
Start reading →A Wired Sonoff Zigbee Alternative
Flashing Tasmota onto the EACHEN ZB-GW03 to get a wired Zigbee coordinator, and the run of firmware fixes that followed.
Start reading →Home Assistant Wall Tablets in Plain HTML
Replacing the Lovelace dashboards on my wall tablets with small plain HTML pages, then teaching them voice, music and a smarter intercom.
Start reading →Local XMCOSY+ String Lights
Running XMCOSY+ string lights fully locally in Home Assistant with LocalTuya: decoding their data points in 2022, and a simpler, shareable package four years later.
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