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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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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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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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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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Photography backup and archiving – plan for disaster

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

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Protecting your work with a successful photography backup plan I've been asked how I protect my artwork, images and related information with a dedicated photography backup plan. I take a belt and suspenders approach with multiple copies on and off site using both free and subscription services. When approaching a backup solution or plan, first you really need to think…

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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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Achievement unlocked: Phantom 3 Advanced

August 27, 2015February 18, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Phantom 3 Advanced: Boys and their toys ... Ok, I fully admit it, I have a need for gadgets... and I just got one of the best gadgets I've had in a while :) I picked up the Phantom 3 over at Stroud Photo in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; a great shop and the people are amazing - helpful and they know…

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