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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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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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Migrating from SmartThings to Hubitat

May 3, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 money). There are certainly professional…

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ActionTiles Smart Home Automation - Information Panel

Home Automation with SmartThings and ActionTiles

June 27, 2017June 27, 2017 by John P. Hoke

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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 screen to use when Alexa…

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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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All this modern SmartHome Technology and I still cant turn on the damn lights!

A Somewhat SmartHome or Where’s the Light Switch?

April 30, 2017January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Is my SmartHome supposed to be smarter than me? I've avoided a lot of the SmartHome push, but finally gave in over the past week or so. My caving in was not really due to laziness or really needed to automate anything, but more out of an intellectual curiosity, and to see what I could do that would not completely piss off…

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