Recent content by bpwwer

I copied everything over to a more stable location.  This should also fix up some of the link issues.   You can find a copy of the CodeCoreTechnologies web site at http://elve.bobshome.org/ Looks like I didn't get all the style sheets since it doesn't look great, but he on-line manual links seem...

  Yes, I grabbed what I could. The format isn't great but I stuck it out on my web site: http://www.bobshome.net/ElveDocs/content/Elve%20Online%20Manual.ashx   It's all under ElveDocs, but a lot of the links don't like that so sometimes you have to manually add that back into the URL to get the...

I believe that there are still a couple of people still using Elve HA software so I'll just throw this out there.   I finally got annoyed enough with the WU driver not working anymore and did something about it. I created a new driver that makes use of DarkSky.net instead. This is mostly a drop...

I'm curious about this also. I was looking a bunch of different NVR's ranging from the ultra cheap $40 boxes that need a USB hard drive attached (and all seemed to have pretty poor reviews) to ones in the $300 - $500 range.  I saw the samsung box but it wasn't clear what made it worth more some...

Have you tried playing around with the port settings on the Quatech?     background: I was just messing with mine the other day as my main HA machine died and I moved everything to a VM.  Once I did that, I was having problems accessing my Russound CAV that's hooked up to the Quatech. Everything...

  Hmm, I know we're in the same general area, but that's not my weather underground station is it?  KCAELDOR9   I do the same thing with the whole house fan but let the house get a bit warmer during the day since we're not normally around.  I'll let it go up to 78 and unless it's close to 100...

I'm a software engineer/architect working on graphics drivers for a major corporation. Been writing software professionally for over 30 years.  I've also spent part of my career doing IT work in a large engineering organization.  In my spare time I've been creating HA drivers/plug-in's for the...

  Hi Utz,   Does this mean that there isn't a way to replace the dns entry for your server with a dns entry for a local server?     If we can't replace the dns entry, what if anything, do we  lose by only getting local feedback?

There are two aspects to "reliability" and we need to distinguish between them when discussing any HA system/protocol.     Smarthome did have hardware reliability issues with their first generation of devices.  The micro-switches in the wall switches would fail prematurely.  Smarthome owned up...

  Yeah, I found a couple blogs that said it maybe was 192 but nothing definitive.  The quality is fine for the speakers I have installed but they're fairly low-end.  The rooms that Pandora is used most in have the single speakers with two tweeters so they sort of do stereo.   I'm using Elve. The...

I don't know if this will be of value, but I'm using a couple of Roku streamers connected to a Russound whole house distribution system.  A quick search of what bit rate is used with the Roku was mixed. Initially it was 128 kbs but that was years ago. There was some indication that they were...

We had solar installed about 4 years ago so it has not paid for itself yet. We have ~6kw system on the roof. For the most part we stay on tier 1 with 1 or 2 months where we'll generate more than we use. We expect it to take 9 - 10 years to recover our investment. Our house is all electric so...

I was kind of thinking the same thing. I do woodworking in the garage and need decent light too. I currently have 6 4ft florescent tubes, mostly concentrated where the tools are and they do OK once warmed up. I just installed a couple of these...

I ported over my MainLobby screens to Elve and didn't have too much trouble. I haven't spent the time to really get everything working yet. I had a couple of custom plug-ins for MainLobby to deal with Russound / DishNetwork integration that I had to port over to Elve and still don't have all...

I have a typical residential roof mount system. The panels on the roof are split into 3 "strings". Each string is composed of 13 panels wired in series. 6 wires run from the roof to the inverter, 1 pair for each string. I think the voltage of each string is around 370vdc (no load). Not...