Changes on the website

January 2025

• 🥳 1st year of website operation

Home Assistant

• Hardware - NAS Synology - description of using NAS Synology for HomeAssistant including installation instructions
• Zigbee2MQTT - added sections:
  • for firmware updates for adapters using EZSP
  • how to enable network availability polling for devices
  • how to temporarily disable devices in the Zigbee network
• HA 2025.1 - list of new features in the latest version of Home Assistant

Website Code

• 🔗 MyHomeAssistantLink - new web component for faster generation of MyHomeAssistant links including click differentiation in Plausible.
• 🆕 Docusaurus 3.7 + React 19 - update of the website system to the latest version + React framework also to the latest version
• 🎨 Dark Theme - adjustment of H2 and H3 heading colors for the dark theme.

December 2024

Home Assistant

• HACS - update of recommended HACS integrations and UI elements
• Automation - addition of condition types in automations, modification of automations through UI and YAML code
• HA 2024.12 - new section with a list of new features in the latest version of Home Assistant
• Basic Concepts - new section with descriptions of basic concepts in Home Assistant especially for beginners: Integrations, Devices, Entities

Website Code

• 🚚 Support for multiple e-shops for products
• 🎥 Inclusion of YouTube videos in articles

November 2024

Website Code

• 🌗 Switching between light and dark themes

• 📈 Web Analytics

  • removal of very basic analytics through Cloudflare
  • self-hosted implementation of the open-source system Plausible

• 🧵 Comments

  • removal of the comment system Disqus due to an excessive amount of ads in the free version
  • finding an alternative open-source system Remark42 and its self-hosted implementation

January 2024

• 🥳 Website launch