Background I introduced the installation and configuration method of Home Assistant in an article in April 2022. At that time, to connect Xiaomi’s many smart homes to HA, we had to install a third-party HA integration, namely Hass-Xiaomi-Miot . It is released on GitHub by an individual developer al-one and has always been our only choice to connect Mijia to HA. Until recently, Xiaomi released the official HA integration on GitHub: HA_Xiaomi_Home , filling the gap of Mijia access to HA. ...

About the Move For personal reasons, I deleted my Google account earlier this year. As a result, my old GitHub account could no longer pass 2FA, which meant I could no longer update articles at my old blog address . So I registered a new GitHub account and moved the old posts here. I wonder how many people had bookmarked the old address. From their point of view, I may have simply stopped updating forever. That is one of the biggest drawbacks of publishing personal writing on a low-social static blog: there is no real way to contact readers. I cannot forward this migration notice to any old reader, which is a real pity 😞. ...

For me, 2023 was without doubt a long year. At the end of the year, media outlets and independent creators made their usual year-in-review pieces. Whenever I saw those summaries and happened to read news from early 2023, I was surprised that it had happened in 2023 rather than earlier, in 2022 or 2021. That is unusual for someone about to turn thirty. In my memory, time only felt slow when I was a confused and idle child. ...

In 2022, many things changed in our lives. For example, the sound of firecrackers, absent from cities for years, finally returned. The authorities kept issuing strict bans, but neither people’s long-repressed emotions nor an ancient tradition that has lasted for thousands of years on this land can simply be erased. In 2022, we witnessed a low point of civilization. The great bell was cast aside while the clay pot rang; countless people suffered under the crushing weight of power. Fortunately, thunder still comes from silence, and the curve of civilizational decline still has temporary rebounds. Perhaps no one expected the fire in Urumqi to spread across the whole country. Between people and their long-lost courage, there was only a blank sheet of paper. ...

Opening If you often mess with your home network, you must often encounter these problems: Why can’t I open the backend of the router even though the network cable is plugged in? Why does the NAS’s IP address often change? Why does the speed of opening web pages become slower when using expensive soft routing? Why can’t I play the bypass route even after following the boss’s video configuration? The above problems are actually related to DHCP. ...