Recent content by DIYitAll

Hello Cocooners, it's great to see this forum (and familiar users) still active after not logging in for five years! Once I got my M1G programmed with the stellar support herein, I kind of got back to life and neglected this wonderful commmunity - and the wealth of information - for way too...

Ahhhh.....that's what I was thinking (leaving house, spouse sleeping).  Where I went wrong in my testing is I popped a bedroom window open, which isn't defined as an entry zone.      Cheers!

If the system knows I'm staying home, and rightfully, the alarm sounds when I violate the system within that 60 second countdown, then what's the purpose of the delay?

Yes....from multiple angles - left, right, high, low, wide.    I have many pics from my renno work, especially of electrical wiring and framing.  Sometimes you want to know exactly where that cable was run before you cut open a wall in the future.  But it's slightly frustrating when you pull up...

Straight from Polk:  "All of our speakers are of an 'open-air infinite baffle' design....we don't recommend anything less than 1 cu.ft., but any size wall or ceiling cavity or opening will do."   Knowing this, I will still build some form of enclosures around my ceiling boxes to protect them...

I think I will inquire, since I can block the joists almost anywhere I wish.    The manufacturer's response should be interesting.  The reason I say this is, on stud cavity volumes, there's no such thing as "typical" wall cavities.  For one thing, there are 2x4 walls, and 2x6 walls.  There are...

For what it's worth, I have a very new Casa Vieja ceiling fan, and from the day I installed it there's been a light hum when on the lowest speed setting.

Have you guys scoped out any of this stuff at http://www.superbrightleds.com/ ?   Edit:  Hah, nevermind...I just saw this company linked in another LED thread that's been going for a couple years!

Thanks Dan.  I can't express enough appreciation for the community in this forum.  Of all the forums I've ever participated in, this one has some of the brightest minds I've stumbled across on the Web, and the members are just generally polite and well-spoken.  I feel like I've found a "home"...

I appreciate all your inputs.....I'm a (verrrry) slow mover.  I took seven months picking out tile for my kitchen and entry.   I noticed on that WeMo hack post, someone said something about the vulnerability of IP stuff.  I hope the IP-cam monitoring stuff doesn't fall into this category.    I...

Thanks for elaborating, that's what I need.   Like most things go, reality sets in at some point.  In my case, it's when I accept the fact that $2K might only get me three cameras, and not an 8-camera system ready to plug-n-play.    I suspect it's gonna be like, when I finally caved and got...

That's interesting, I'd never heard of ripoffreport.  And that particular banter was quite amusing...gee whiz, I can almost pick a side based on intuition.  In any case, I did have a decent experience with them back in '98, for a non-surveillance related purchase.   But the real crux behind my...

I'm definitely happy with them, and anyone who's heard them in my house are equally impressed.  But at this point in life, my hearing is completely trashed, so my system will probably never go above '3' on the volume knob.   Room acoustics?  Yes.  What a difference even some furniture makes!  I...

So, in my quest to complement my new ELK with some "best quality I can afford" surveillance, I've been all over the Web researching IP video offerings and technology.  One doesn't get very far without stumbling upon polarisusa, with their multitude of packages (albeit largely analog) and...

Is there any "functional" difference between the two?   Or is it purely physical design that seems to dictate the selection?   Purely out of personal taste, I chose six pairs of Polk (rectangular) speakers to put in my ceiling.  I just felt that they match the squareness of the rooms, the...