I've been going down the Home Assistant rabbit hole for quite a while now, automating various aspects of my home, setting up custom integrations with HACS, and building up a Tailscale reverse proxy ...

Recently [Glen Akins] reported on Bluesky that the Zigbee-based sensor he had made for his garden’s rear gate was still going strong after a Summer and Winter on the original 2450 lithium coin cell.

Introduced in 1998 and commercialized in 2003, ZigBee has evolved into a robust global communication standard under the IEEE 802.15.4 working group. The technology supports star, tree, and mesh ...