How to Transform a RaspberryPi Into a Universal Zigbee and Z-Wave Bridge

Thanks for your comment! A bit has changed since I wrote this article, and the Z-Wave integration has now been migrated from the (unmaintained) OpenZWave framework to ZWaveJS-UI.

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I haven’t tested it personally with hass.io, but I know that both zigbee2mqtt and zwavejs provide native integrations with hass.io over MQTT. The thing is that hass.io expects its own topics with its own conventions to be able to detect the Zigbee and Z-Wave entities published by these frameworks (something that both the services support), while Platypush hooks right into their native MQTT topics.

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So yes, you can definitely have the same zigbee2mqtt or zwavejs service pushing both to Platypush and hass.io, but Platypush isn’t (at least for now) compatible with the format of the topics expected by hass.io.

Build a Self-Hosted Online Second Brain Like Evernote

Thank you! Containerization of Platypush is still a bit tricky because it’s a piece of software with many optional dependencies. You can use the platydock utility to create a Docker image given a configuration file (it’ll parse the plugins you need and their dependencies and generate a Dockerfile for you), as described here <https://git.platypush.tech/platypush/platypush/wiki#platyvenv-and-platydock>, but note that platydock is still a bit of WIP and it may be subject to change in the future.

This is Why We Need a Decentralized Internet

What is currently happening in the crypto/web3 sphere has nothing to do with decentralization. It’s quite the opposite: you need more gatekeepers just to publish content to a Blockchain, and adding blocks to the chain requires either initial stakes in the order of 100’s of thousands of $, or running a big data center where energy is cheap.

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We’ve already had a solution for decentralization for years, and that revolves around self-hosting, scraping and aggregating content, leveraging open protocols like RSS, ActivityPub, XMPP and Matrix, real semantic web to make sure that web pages are readable both by humans and robots, and federating instances so you can seamlessly exchanging content among them without ending up with one single big walled garden.

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The crypto diversion just doesn’t make any sense to me. A world where everyone can run their own Apache server and easily get discovered doesn’t need an additional layer of cryptocurrencies nor new gatekeepers.

I opened this article hoping to find some good arguments in support of open protocols (from ActivityPub, to RSS, to Matrix), open-source architectures, decentralized social media (see the Fediverse) and so on.

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Instead, I found yet one more praise for a Ponzi scheme, scalability nightmare and environmental disaster like Bitcoin.

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We must ensure that the decentralized Internet is the future, but in order to run a decentralized Internet you don’t need to burn the whole energy demand of the Netherlands to solve useless numeric puzzles, nor you need to own a digital wallet to fill with speculation-prone cryptocurrency.

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On the contrary, this vision will be even more centralized: the cost of adding new blocks to a Blockchain (either through proof-of-work or proof-of-stake) is so high that in practice, for the Web 3 to work properly, you need gatekeepers. Infura and Alchemy have basically already established a duopoly, and without them there’s just no way to deploy (or even test) a dApp. OpenSea already owns more than half of the NFT market. MetaMask has already become the standard de facto to manage multiple wallets.

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The only solution for a decentralized Internet is more emphasis and more adoption of protocols and pieces of software that, in some cases, have already existed for more than two decades (but then the Web 2 giants came half way and centralized everything).

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