Can the M1 Gold send/receive signals via the M1EXP to/from an ethernet relay board

Greetings;
 
I'm planning a new home and since I'm familiar with the Elk M1 Gold and several of you have recommended that this is still be best unit around, I want to use this as the alarm system and have it talk to my home automation as well. Automation will happen via Z-Wave+.
 
While researching a cheaper way of controlling lights than buying a separate Z-wave module for every circuit (the idea being one Zwave Rx/TX controlling several relays), I ran across the the following products:
 
https://numato.com/product/8-channel-ethernet-solid-state-relay-module   An ethernet controlled relay bank and Analog/Digital IO bank! They make the same thing for USB and digital control as well.
 
Now, my question: Can I program the M1G in such way that it sends a telnet signal through the M1EXP to this device? Or maybe even reads some of those inputs? Would be cool, no?  
 
 
Thanks on advance for your help!
 
Cheers.

TriLife said:

Greetings;
 
I'm planning a new home and since I'm familiar with the Elk M1 Gold and several of you have recommended that this is still be best unit around, I want to use this as the alarm system and have it talk to my home automation as well. Automation will happen via Z-Wave+.
 
While researching a cheaper way of controlling lights than buying a separate Z-wave module for every circuit (the idea being one Zwave Rx/TX controlling several relays), I ran across the the following products:
 
https://numato.com/product/8-channel-ethernet-solid-state-relay-module   An ethernet controlled relay bank and Analog/Digital IO bank! They make the same thing for USB and digital control as well.
 
Now, my question: Can I program the M1G in such way that it sends a telnet signal through the M1EXP to this device? Or maybe even reads some of those inputs? Would be cool, no? 

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I don't know of a way to do this with the XEP.  It's designed to send e-mail messages, not text strings.
 
I'm thinking you might be able to make this work with a serial port adapter (M1XSP) connected to a serial-to-ethernet adapter.  Then write rules of the form
 
Whenever [event]
Then send text to Output Port
 
But then, it might just be easier to get a relay board with a RS232 or USB interface and skip the ethernet.

Unless there's a reason to remote the relay board or the 3rd party device needs ethernet and is compatible, I'd just stick a M1RB in the can and call it a day.