Bringing the Milky Way to Life As I’ve posted previously, I have been intrigued by astrophotography and photographing the Milky Way for a while, but really never took the plunge. A lot of the information […]
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Bitten by the Astrophotography Bug!
Is there a cure for this Astrophotography Disease? Having recently gotten back into my photography hobby addiction, I seem to have developed a bad case of the infamous Astrophotography bug. Symptoms include insomnia, hyper-caffeination, mumbling to […]
Migrating from Lightroom to On1 Photo Raw
Operation: Workflow Simplification – On1 Photo Migration For a long time now, I have been using Adobe Lightroom for managing my photo collections and libraries, while using On1 Photo to perform the bulk of my […]
SteelStacks – Bethlehem Pennsylvania
SteelStacks in HDR It’s been a bit of a slog getting back into photography. Picking up the camera again has been difficult, tedious and ultimately rewarding. This morning I took a drive down to Bethlehem […]
Bear Creek Falls Pennsylvania – Photography & Lesson Learned
Bear Creek Falls Waterfall I like to ride my motorcycle through the Poconos, and I regularly pass the Bear Creek Falls on my ride around the Francis Lewis Dam. It is usually a trickle of […]
Using WeeWX for Home Automation
Now that Wunderground has decided to remove free API access for PWS owners, we needed a local replacement using WeeWX for home automation systems.
WeeWX Weather Station Post Install Configurations
Previously I posted about migrating my Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station running WeatherCat software on a MacMini to WeeWX software on a Raspberry Pi. This continues the configuration and customization of the solution
The Hubitat Journey Continues – WebCoRE
The continuing saga of Local Processing – WebCoRE In my post yesterday I described the initial migration steps from SmartThings’ (ST) cloud based home automation to Hubitat’s local processing solution. I am extremely impressed with the […]
Migrating from SmartThings to Hubitat
All Politics (and Automation) is Local As I have written about previously, I’ve been working on a smart home / automation solution in my house for about 12-18 months now. My initial buildout was heavily […]
About Me
Husband, father, Coffee Junkie, Mac Addict, InfoSec Professional, amateur photographer, craft beer and whiskey connoisseur, 2A supporter, IoT & Smart Home fiddler, UAV flyer & all around Curmudgeon and Generally Sarcastic SOB (not necessarily in that order).
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