Recent content by dw886

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I have a fairly large home automation install, and I'm regretting not motorizing all of my shades (we did 10 with Lutron motors, but we skipped about the same amount).    We have 8 Hunter Douglas Duette Honeycomb shades.  They are cordless (you grab them and move them up/down).  Some are Bottom...

  Not sure if it's the robot or the laser - I'll have to do a little digging.  The rule makes sense now, bypass the sensor up front, and don't rely on the sensor to become not secure before doing something.

I guess I hadn't thought of using rules.  Any thoughts on how I'd do this?  I'm trying to think of the trigger event - I can't use the system state (like if system becomes armed) because it may or may not be on the same day that they're scheduled to run, so the trigger would have to be if that...

My system (going on 5 years?) has been installed and working great.  I've been slowly adding in things to my Elk M1G and tweaking things, but only because I like to do it.   About 4-5 months ago, we got a Neato Botvac Connected (think: "Laser-guided Roomba that vacuums in straight lines instead...

"don't come on full blast at 2 AM"   We have RadioRA2, and I had the same problem as you have with the motion sensors turning on late at night, which are mostly in the bathrooms and closets for us.  There is a timeclock mode option in the RadioRA2 software that allows you to set the motion...

I'm tied to the Windows ecosystem, and have quite a bit invested into stitching it together across different pieces of my home automation.  The issue that I've been running into is that there's no way to Arm / Disarm the Elk M1 from my phone.  Sure, having M1ToGo on my PC is nice, but sometimes...

  To be honest, I forgot these extensions even existed.  This seems like the most logical approach, and expands the possibilities of what can be done even outside of squeezing in a UPS (it may allow me to restructure some and make some more room).  It seems that by doing this I can get into the...

So we've had a few recent power outages, and it has me re-thinking my strategy for such situations.  I have a handful of Leviton 42" SMC enclosures.  The ones that have all of the automation equipment, alarm panels, and communication devices are already supplied with power via 12V battery...

So I've sealed the sensors, and I've set them from fast to slow, and haven't had a false, but that doesn't mean much since this has only been happening about once every 12 months or so. :-)   As for the panel, it's pretty much in a bunker.  I have an Elk temperature probe in the room where it...

Thanks everyone.  So the first thing that I did yesterday afternoon was pull the jumpers, changing the detectors from fast to slow (I was reading the manual again, and thought that it was worth a shot - thanks for confirming Del).  I didn't see any spiders when I pulled the covers, but I'll go...

It seems that over the summer (hot) months, I get false alarms on hard-wired motion detectors (DSC BV-500).  When looking at when they happen, it's always when I've dialed the air conditioning back to about 80 degrees and it's warmer than the AC setpoint outside, so the house actually heats up...

So on my Windows 10 machine, I can't get Elk RP2 to connect to my M1XEP on my LAN with nothing other than a switch between my PC and the M1XEP.    I see TLS errors each time that I try to connect.  My M1XEP has the older firmware that still has the Java-based website, and while it'll start...

Anyone have a good simple reference on how to use a scope to narrow this down?  I had a co-worker ask a buddy that works in the cabling industry, and he said it was likely a cable kink.  He also said there's tools available that would help to narrow it down to the exact location in the wire. ...

I'm running into an issue with one run at wires that's about 40' in length. It's a bundle of 2 UTP CAT6 cables, 3 UTP CAT5 cables, and 2 runs of RG6. I was using two of the CAT6 cables for an HDMI balun and it started to get flaky (losing handshake between devices, and then coming back after a...