For my setup, home automation is less about dashboards and more about a clean instance tree, API access, and reliable data flows into a real-time database. In that context, ioBroker still fits better than Home Assistant.
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Category: Personal Tech
WordPress, self-hosting, home automation, and the private technical systems I build, test, and refine.
A practical step-by-step guide to serving two domains from one self-hosted WordPress installation, including DNS, hosting aliases, SSL, and dynamic WordPress URL configuration.
Read articleMy first experiences in playing around with home automation are resulting in a running framework (basic network for extendibiltiy and integration). I am working with raspberry Pi and Home Assistant as central environment. The operating system is debian…
Read articleAfter reading through the manuals of the Yamaha N470d receiver I recognized that the usage of banana plugs are documented for the speakers but they are not for the receiver unit of the stereo device: The speaker input…
Read articleAfter configuring the airplay feature of my Yamaha CRX-N470d I encountered issues with my wifi router. For the wifi I am using an Zyxel NBG-419N v2. The Zyxel router by default has the UPnP feature deactivated. To get…
Read articleSince about one year I am unsing Illdy theme for my wordpress blog. Upgrading my blog from illdy theme from v1 to v2 broke severall things on my blog: custom CSS Blog Archive settings page featured image settings
Read articleThere are several discussions going on about the latest updates of the apple products. iPad pro seems to be a handy and well designed product. Even the price seem to be ok, comparing it to its direct rivals…
Read articleWhen installing the preview version of windows 10 using an USB 3.0 flash drive note that the Windows 7 usb dvd image creation tool will not work. The result is that when trying to boot the PC from…
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