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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Home Automation Solution Mapping

June 11, 2017June 12, 2017 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…
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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…
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Nothing like walking around Lisbon in the spring a Nothing like walking around Lisbon in the spring and enjoying the sights with your camera. I was walking in the Praca Do Comercio area and I heard the strange otherworldly sounds of someone plaing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujia on ... a Wood Saw! Seriously! . @on1photo @sonyalphagallery @visitlisboa @LisboaCool @wonderlust.portugal @wonderlust.lisbon @visitportugal #on1pics #streetphotography_bw #bnw_captures #bwphotography #bnwphotography #bwphoto #Insta_bw #Blacknwhite_perfection #Bnw_captures #Bnw_life #streetst #streetphotographers #streetphoto #insta_bw #insta_pick_bw #storyofthestreet #gramslayers #streetmagazine #everybodystreet #instamagazine_ #streetxstory #streetphotographyinternational #lisbonstreets #lisbon #portugal #ig_lisboa #ig_portugal #busker #pracadocomercio #leonardCohen
Just a random dog that decided to ham it up at the Just a random dog that decided to ham it up at the fountain outside Sforzesco Castle in Milan. Crazy puppy was enthralled by the camera 🐶 . Edited entirely in @on1photo 2020. . . #sforzescocastle #milan #dogsofinstagram #puppy #travelphotography #justgoshoot #eclectic_shotz #petportrait #wanderlust #italy #dalmatian #oneblueeye #on1pics #missmydog
Yesterday I went for a drive to a few local spots Yesterday I went for a drive to a few local spots I like to shoot at, including Hickory Run State Park, which has a long history in my #family back to the 1800s when Issac Gould on my father's side of the family owned a number of lumber mills in the area. I was having a rough day, as it was the 40th anniversary of my mother's passing, so I stopped at the old graveyard in the park (just across the way from the Ranger Station) to look around, think and grab a few photographs of the area. . This shot is of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gould's marker, she died in 1849 at just about 11 years old from a major flood that raged through the area. Her older sister Joanna wrote about the flood in detail which can be read here (https://tinyurl.com/JoannaGouldFlood). It is said that Lizzie haunts the area, and I have to admit some REALLY weird things happened last night when I got back down the road to my place ... but that's for another time. . #on1pics #hickoryrunstatepark #poconoshistory #graveyard #gravemarker #headstone #pennsylvania #staylocal #pennsylvaniahistory #poconomnts #ghosts #pennsylvaniaphotographer #pastateparks #padcnr #forest #hikingtrails #ig_pennsylvania #weirdshithappens #geneology . @padcnr @visit_pa @poconomts @southernpoconos @sonyalphagallery @on1photo
Francis Walter Dam panorama . Took this panorama Francis Walter Dam panorama . Took this panorama yesterday while sitting around and thinking at the Dam. This was shot with Sony A7Rii and a Sony 35mm f/2.8 lens with the stitching and post done entirely in On1 Photo. Swipe to see more 📸 . #on1pics #panoramic #panorama #poconomnts #armycorpsofengineers #poconos #ig_pennsylvania #pennsylvaniaphotographer #ig_travel #staycation #francisewalterdam #travellocal . @on1photo @southernpoconos @visit_pa @visitjimthorpe @visitjimthorpe @sonyalphagallery @on1photo @usacehq
A few years ago, while on a bit of a holiday in Pa A few years ago, while on a bit of a holiday in Paris I attended an exhibit of @jpgaultierofficial fashions and grabbed a few shots. . For this image, I was lucky that the background was already fairly dark, so I blacked it out and brought out some of the detail in the corset to shadowbox the image. . . #jetaimeparis #jpgaultierofficial #jeanpaulgaultier #paris #fashion #gaultier #gaultierparis #travel #igersbnw #bwstyleoftheday #blackandwhite #igblackandwhite #instagrambnw #blackandwhitecreators #monoart #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #bnwinstagram #bw_photooftheday #bw_mania #flair_bw #bnwsouls #blackandwhiteisworththefight #bnw_planet #theworldshotz_bnw #on1pics
Sagrada Familia - Look Up! There is so much to cat Sagrada Familia - Look Up! There is so much to catch your eye in Sagrada Familia, and I never get bored looking for new things and perspectives in the Basilica. This shot is from my last trip to Barcelona with a Platypod. Tripods are not allowed, but they did not seem to have issues with using the Platypod on the floor, go figure 🙂 . @basilicasagradafamilia @sonyalphagallery @visitbarcelona @barcelona_barcelona @thisisbarcelona @topbarcelonaphoto @wonderlust.barcelona @on1photo #sagradafamilia . #kings_hdr #hdrphotography #hdr #getlost #explorer #theworldshotz #createexplore #travelphoto #travelworld #keepexploring #instapassport #igtravel #on1pics #eclectic_shotz #visitbarcelona #barcelona #spain #catalunya #barcelonaspain #ig_barcelona #catalonia #church #cathedral #gaudi #platypod
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