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Virtual House Cleaning

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Rejiggering the site (a.k.a. virtual house cleaning 101). Now that I've gone and changed a ton of crap on the website, go the start of an online shop going for my photos, and did it all without pulling out my hair, it is about time that I go through the hard parts of this process... Time to review all the…

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My Workflow prior to migrating everything to On1 Photo

Migrating from Lightroom to On1 Photo Raw

August 30, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Operation: Workflow Simplification - On1 Photo Migration Used under CC License: Attribution GTDrawings 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 editing, primarily because (in my eyes) On1 wasn't yet mature enough to risk it. With the release of On1…

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Using WeeWX for Home Automation

May 24, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Weather Underground is Dead to Me I have been running a Personal Weather Station (PWS) for a number of years. Since the start, I have provided data to Weather Underground (WU) for free, with the common understanding that we PWS owners who provide the data would have API access to our data for our personal use and projects. I use…

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WeeWX Weather Station Post Install Configurations

May 20, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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So the WeeWX Journey Continues (This is mostly written for me to remember things - and for anyone else going down this path) A couple of months back I posted about migrating my Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station from running WeatherCat software on a Mac Mini to WeeWX software on a Raspberry Pi. The solution has been working pretty flawlessly…

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The Hubitat Journey Continues – WebCoRE

May 4, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 speed of Hubitat Elevation's (HE) automations, and the depth of integrations they already provide, and continue to develop. Another benefit is the depth of the…

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Weather Station Migration to weeWX on Raspberry Pi

March 19, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Weather Station Migration: Mac to Raspberry Pi I have been running a Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station in my backyard for just under four years now. The area I live in has so many microclimates that if you don't like the weather you can drive 5 minutes and be in completely different weather. As long as I have been…

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Home Automation Solution Mapping

June 11, 2017March 10, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Home Automation, or has my house become self-aware? SkyNet Be Damned! I've been playing around with Home Automation and SmartHome IoT technology for a couple of months and went searching for a way to map out all the connections, dependencies and devices in the house. I tripped across SmartHomeDB on my twitter feed and gave it a shot. Understanding which…

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ShortPixel: Of course size matters - nobody wants a small cup of coffee (or large images)

Image Optimization – ShortPixel for WordPress

May 29, 2017January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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ShortPixel - (Image) Size Does Matter The majority of this website is related to my photography obsession hobby. I've always walked a fine line on image optimization - trying to get the smallest images with the best quality and retain the EXIF/Metadata of the images. Until recently, I have been using a mix of EWWW Image Optimizer and mod_pagespeed (MPS) to compress the…

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