Migrating Home Assistant to Proxmox

Migrating Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi to a ProxMox server

Migrating Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi to Proxmox for stability and speed. A series of articles on the process and gotchas to watch out for

My Home Automation Journey

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My current Home Automation project, its fits and starts and testing between Hubitat and Home Assistant – my final choice and where to go next

Using WeeWX for Home Automation

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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

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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

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The continuing saga of Local Processing – WebCoRE  Updated January 2nd 2021: A reader, Robert Challoner, messaged me that the GIT package address changed since I wrote this and I updated it below. Robert – thanks for the heads up! I also did some cleanup of the layout to make it easier to copy and […]

Migrating from SmartThings to Hubitat

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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 based on the Samsung SmartThings ecosystem, which at the time was probably the best available for the investment (time and […]

Home Automation with SmartThings and ActionTiles

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Do press the shiny red (ActionTiles) button! Moving further down the road of my smart home automation insanity, I’ve started looking for a panel to control things around the home. The paradigm I was looking for is not very different from a home security alarm control panel. I wanted a wall mountable or tabletop touch […]

Home Automation Solution Mapping

Home Automation and Smart Home

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 […]