Reviews

**My smart home journey started years ago with a simple Philips Hue configuration. After integrating Home Assistant, I wanted to have some door/window sensors and temperature sensors. I bought the Xiaomi Aqara bridge and implemented all the sensors into Home Assistant. I quickly realized I now have two Zigbee bridges due to the fact that both Philips and Xiaomi want a ‘customized’ standard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I needed to do something…** I was using multiple bridges because I heard some stories about connection losses around some USB bridges. ...

A couple of months ago I decided to migrate my blog from a self-hosted WordPress.org blog to WordPress.com. In this blog post, I’ll tell you why I did that. No maintenance required A self-hosted WordPress.org installation needs maintenance. Plugins as well as the WordPress installation needs to be updated multiple times per month. I know there is an automatic update mechanism for WordPress which works fine for a basic installation of WordPress, but there is a chance that the upgrade will break your plugins and you have to restore a back-up to temporarily fix your website. ...