Setting up Home Assistant with two MQTT brokers (using MQTT bridge)

Home Assistant only supports subscribing to one MQTT broker. This is a problem, if you get sensor data from multiple different brokers and want to display them in your dashboards. So in this post, I will show you a solution on how to configure one of the brokers as an MQTT bridge. By doing this,Continue reading “Setting up Home Assistant with two MQTT brokers (using MQTT bridge)”

Migrating a simple server from VMware ESXi to Proxmox PVE

I just migrated a rather small server from VMware ESXi 7.0 to Proxmox 8.1.3 hypervisor. The server had two virtual Windows 10 machines. I document the steps here, in case it might be helpful to someone in the same situation. Step 1: Install a new, empty drive Insert a fresh SSD in the server andContinue reading “Migrating a simple server from VMware ESXi to Proxmox PVE”