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holgern / holger80 moved on to other things.

for future projects, I will go with @emrebeyler's library:

https://github.com/emre/lighthive

It doesn't have the high lvl functions of beem, but it is being maintained and emre is available for questions.
Generally it is built much less complicated.

Thanks. I've not tried that one. Will check it out.