This is a promotional newsletter from the Belgian electrical contractor Geert Roekeloos, presenting its products and services such as KNX radiator thermostats, Ajax wireless fire alarms and OpenHAB home automation. Readers get product overviews and sales-oriented explanations of smart home and energy-saving options rather than independent analysis.
Website: https://geertroekeloos.be/
Personal essays and guides from the Home Assistant lead on smart home automation, open source maintenance and building reliable software. Readers get practical explanations of Home Assistant features alongside reflections on how open source practices change as projects scale.
Practical build notes on putting AI layers on top of real systems, including a smart home run through Home Assistant and Claude, a Cloudflare Worker proxy over closed commerce platforms, and brand-specific AI assistants. Each issue walks through the problem, the architecture chosen and the tradeoffs.
Décryptage Tech explains news and technology topics in plain language, with a practical focus on how devices and services actually behave. Recent issues cover how video-call recordings are really encoded, the rollout of the Matter 1.6 smart-home standard, and how multiple AI tools can be split between design and build work.
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