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Great LastPass alternative – securely self host your own password manager with Bitwarden(_rs)

You are looking for a LastPass alternative? Recently LastPass changed their free tier – which was a less than popular decision which makes it pretty much unusable for many users. Fortunately I use a very different solution to store my passwords and here I am sharing how to do this: Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years18.02.2021 ago
HomeAssistant

Customizing the Home Assistant sidebar by adding 3 convenient shortcuts

Home Assistant has a neat UI but many often needed pages are only accessible via a nested menu. Fortunately the Home Assistant sidebar is customizable with some tricks. I found a solution that allows adding new items for much used pages like integrations and automations. How to re-arrange existing entries Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years06.02.2021 ago
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ZHA vs Zigbee2MQTT – choosing the best system?

There are two awesome tools for local control over Zigbee devices: ZHA vs Zigbee2Mqtt. Which one should you use? I recently switched from Zigbee2MQTT to ZHA. Here I will show you how to set up ZHA with Home Assistant and compare ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT. My setup I recently started a Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years25.01.2021 ago
Software

How to use Zigbee2MQTTAssistant to comfortable manage all your Zigbee devices

Zigbee2MQTTAssistant makes a great software even better. Zigbee2MQTT is a very nice piece of software you can use to control all kind of MQTT devices with one gateway. But while it is awesome it can be a little hard to get started with. This is where Zigbee2MQTT-Assistant shines: it gives Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years13.01.2021 ago
Automation

How to build your own powerful smart home server and hub

Tired of running a dozen different hub and Apps for your smart home devices? Here is how to build your own custom smart home server that is a universal hub and so much more. With a Raspberry Pi, Docker and open source smart home software and without spending much money. Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years09.01.2021 ago

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