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

WordPress Updates and New Look!

Website Redesign Wordpress Themes Header

I spent a few days of this COVID-19 crisis sitting in front of the computer and rebuilding a lot of this blog’s WordPress front end. The prior theme was nice looking but I was starting to find issues with its speed. Ultimately, it was just easier to gut and redo it than fix. I also […]

Pixaloop – Animate Still Photos

Pocono Mountain Sunset

I downloaded the free version of Pixaloop (Apple iOS | Android) to my phone a few weeks ago, but never got around to taking it for a test drive until this morning. I loaded a recent photo of a sunset in the Poconos and started to run with it. Pixaloop’s interface is pretty straight forward, […]

London Photography – October 2018

Tower Bridge Light Trails

London Calling?  In October I had a business trip over to London to attend the Payment Card Industry Community Meeting as well as a visit to our European HQ offices. While there was a ton of work to do in the ten days I spent there, I did have a number of opportunities to get out […]

Milky Way Processing in On1 Photo Raw 2018

Final Milky Way Image processed through the steps in this tutorial

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 on the interwebs make learning this almost cult like… there are secret handshakes, obscure references and seemingly mystical processing steps […]

Migrating from Lightroom to On1 Photo Raw

My Workflow prior to migrating everything to On1 Photo

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 editing, primarily because (in my eyes) On1 wasn’t yet mature enough to risk it. With the release of On1 Photo […]

Bear Creek Falls Pennsylvania – Photography & Lesson Learned

Bear Creek Falls - ©2018 John P. Hoke

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 water falling down the step like rocks, but we have been deluged with rain for a couple of weeks and […]

Using WeeWX for Home Automation

Logo of Weather Underground - an IBM company that will screw its data providers for no apparent reason

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

WeeWX Logo

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

WebCoRE Logo

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 […]