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Avoid Estate Sales by Lisa aka Family Estate Services
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Avoid Estate Sales by Lisa aka Family Estate Services

Sadly, these folks only focus on getting rid of your stuff and not maximizing the value of each item. The people they sell to turn around and resell it for much higher. I recommend avoiding Estate sale companies, but this one has every excuse in the book. Empty promises, used my property as storage and […]

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Hubitat Elevation
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Hubitat Elevation

So for the past several months I’ve been apart of the amazing team at Hubitat and we have finally released our first product Hubitat Elevation and its been an amazing journey to work with such a talented group.  From a dream to an actual product, its amazing to see this come together. Check out our intro video https://youtu.be/FqldxnIOwSU and […]

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Starting a Business Takes Time
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Starting a Business Takes Time

Finally got our Federal Tax ID number and opened a bank account, which marks the final steps in starting NPSRS, LLC.  This has been a long journey, but it is exciting to start this business up and help serve our customers needs. http://npsrs.com is the new home for this company.  Visit the website to see all […]

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Editing YouTube Downloaded Videos in Adobe Premiere CC
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Editing YouTube Downloaded Videos in Adobe Premiere CC

I recently started to do highlighted segments for Live Code Fridays LiveStream on YouTube  and after the show has been broadcasted, I downloaded the mp4 of the show. The first couple times, the file was fine and could easily be edited in Premiere, however, the last episode, somehow had a variable framerate and Premiere does not […]

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Announcing LiveCodeFridays.com
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Announcing LiveCodeFridays.com

I am so happy to launch LiveCodeFridays.com, the new home for the YouTube live stream show. I will continue to cross post here, but all information about the show, Live Code Fridays can now be found at the link above. Also, with the launch of the new LiveCodeFridays.com we also launched a separate YouTube.com channel […]

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Live Code Fridays 1/15/2016 8pm ET / 5pm PT
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Live Code Fridays 1/15/2016 8pm ET / 5pm PT

Live Code Fridays 1/15/2016 8pm EST / 5pm PST Join host Patrick Stuart and special guests for another edition of Live Code Fridays while they live code up SmartApps and DeviceTypes and discuss the latest happenings in IoT and HA using the SmartThings IDE and platform. On this week’s show we will talk about CES, some […]

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Live Code Fridays 12/18/2015 8pm EST / 5pm PST
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Live Code Fridays 12/18/2015 8pm EST / 5pm PST

Live Code Fridays 12/18/2015 8pm EST / 5pm PST Join host Patrick Stuart and special guests for another edition of Live Code Fridays while they live code up SmartApps and DeviceTypes and discuss the latest happenings in IoT and HA using the SmartThings IDE and platform. On this week’s show we will fix what we […]

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Live Code Fridays 12/11/2015 8pm EST / 5pm PS
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Live Code Fridays 12/11/2015 8pm EST / 5pm PS

Live Code Fridays 12/11/2015 Join host Patrick Stuart and special guests for another edition of Live Code Fridays while they live code up SmartApps and DeviceTypes and discuss the latest happenings in IoT and HA using the SmartThings IDE and platform. On this week’s show we will try to tackle how to tweak the UI […]

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Live Code Fridays 12/4/2015 Part 2
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Live Code Fridays 12/4/2015 Part 2

Live Code Fridays So last night’s show didn’t work out as planned due to a Comcast internet outage 10 minutes before showtime.  Here is part 2 after the internet was restored to the studio. Some great information on a cool SmartApp Mike Maxwell put together to trigger custom commands of any devicetype.  Plus a walkthrough […]

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