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State of (my) Smart Home
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Continue reading →: State of (my) Smart HomeSince I used to write a lot about my smart home setup, thought I’d try to get back into the swing of blog posting by revisiting this tired and thoroughly unentertaining topic. I had been almost exclusively using Home Assistant for almost a year, but some Zigbee things were kind…
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Yet another beginning
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Continue reading →: Yet another beginningI’ve never been good at keeping a running blog. I’ve done things on WordPress.com, a third party hosted WordPress site, dalliance with micro.blog, and now back to WordPress.com. Once again I will try to do some semi-regular posting for the audience of 0 that I expect. Maybe someday my family…
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Slacking
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Continue reading →: SlackingIt’s 9:30am on January 1st…Apple, you’re a glass half empty kind of thing, aren’t you?
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Black Friday emails
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Continue reading →: Black Friday emailsIt’s that wonderful time of the year where I get reminded of all the places I’ve ordered in the past 20 years. What did stores do for Black Friday sales before email?
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Sorry for the lack of communication
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Continue reading →: Sorry for the lack of communicationNot that I expect there’s a lot of people reading this blog, but I apologize for the long time in between posts. It’s been crazy busy in other aspects of my life, and this blog always gets pushed to the back of the line. Fish tank update. Nothing much. I…
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The More Things Change
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Continue reading →: The More Things ChangeSo, I was making a transition to being more HomeKit oriented for the smart home. Hubitat was having issues, and the capability of redundant multiple standby hubs in HomeKit was appealing. So, I started to build out routines, swapped some items from Zigbee to HomeKit compliant Thread based ones, and…
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Never One to Leave Well Enough Alone
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Continue reading →: Never One to Leave Well Enough AloneSo this is another smart home update, because that seems to be what I do in my free time these days, when I get it. The HomeKit integration from Hubitat is ok, and I’m using HomeKit more and more for day to day control. Most automations are still in Hubitat,…
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Correlation
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Continue reading →: CorrelationI bought a snow blower a few weeks ago because 1) I’m getting older and shoveling snow is a pain in the back, literally, and 2) because I could. I thought for sure that would mean we would not have any appreciable snowfalls the rest of the winter since I…
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