Recent content by gregyyc

The tank is sitting right on the ground so there is no way to mount anything underneath it (at least not without disconnecting everything). I've looked all over the outside and access panels with an infrared thermometer and haven't found anything much beyond room temp (which is good I guess...

After having the outside intake pipe get covered in snow and shutting down my gas hot water tank this morning I'm looking for a way to monitor the temperature of the water in the tank to alert the Elk M1 if it drops below a certain level. I thought of using a temp prob on the pipes but that...

Possible but would need to interface it with several different devices and I may just be in the backyard when the door bell is hit so this seemed to solved several problems fairly easily.

Wuench: adding the phantom out seems to work. Oddly enough now I can capture both the doorbell zone (defined as a non-alarm type) and phantom output. If I don't have the rule with the phantom output I don't seem to receive either. I can watch the ASCII stream right from the XEP and nothing comes...

Just a quick follow up.... I tried setting the Aux1Duration timeout to 0 and 1 second to hopefully avoid the continuous rule firing but that doesn't seem to affect the alarm duration at all.

I'm trying to monitor a doorbell press using an ELK-930 via the elkm1 control perl library. According to the ELK M1 manual setting the zone definition for the Door Bell zone to 16 (non-alarm) won't work (and it doesn't) as no activity is logged. The other option was setting the definition to...