Recent content by jruben4

I guess I never really solved this problem.  My issue is that fire alarm and carbon monoxide alarms should trigger similar behaviors (leave building) so ideally could be set the same.  Burglar alarm is a different behavior (shelter in place).   Elk M1g is set so that Bugler and CO are Siren, and...

Under the Voice menu I see where I can change what is announced during the various alarms, but not what the siren sounds like.

Ok, I see.  The problem is I was testing my "fire" alarm with one of the CO detectors.  I assumed the CO alarm was the same as the fire alarm.  Testing from one of the fire sensors does confirm the fire alarm is industrial buzzer.  So apparently the fire alarm is the buzzer (default) but burglar...

Where in ElkRP2 can you change the siren sounds?

Is there a way to have the Elk have different siren sounds for different types of alarms (e.g. burglar vs. fire)?   It's a hard to hear the voice portion of the announcement from upstairs, and for the kids I would like if they could easily tell the difference (without trying to go to a keypad to...

I had this issue when using RP2 over wireless. When I switched to a computer hardwired on the LAN it went away.

I'd like to find away to introduce some random elements to the lighting when I am away - Something like If ARMED AWAY AND after sunset AND before 11pm Turn on light#1 After between 10-30 minutes (random) turn off light#1 After between 5-10 minutes (random) turn ON light#1 After 11pm...

I do have DD-WRT, and I run HD video and all sorts of other high-bandwidth applications (at other times, not when I'm running RP2) without issue over the wifi, so I don't think it's really suffering from lack of bandwidth.

No that's not it. I didn't change anything in RP2 and just switching to a non-wireless connection dramatically decreased the disconnect rate.

Can you plug the 2413S right into the J5 connector on the M1G board, and skip the ISY99i? Or can the M1G only handle X-10 naively?

You were right. I switched from a wireless PC to a hardwired PC and the rate of disconnects is much less (but not zero). I don't think my wireless is "flaky" but maybe ElkRP2 is much more sensitive to 100% up-time than I realize than with normal wireless activities.

Right, I can still assign a "static" IP, but it would be controlled by my DHCP server not the M1XEP. This is better for housekeeping. Also, it will automatically update the DNS server this way, if it was to be changed by my provider.

Yes, DHCP. I initially had it using a static IP address. Now I've selected the top option for it to go to a DHCP server to get it's IP address (as well as for a DNS server). It is still using the old static IP however, which I think is the fallback if it can't contact the DHCP server. When I...

Hi - Does anyone have the M1EXP actually contacting a local DNS server and getting an IP address/DNS name server correctly? Mine appears to only work in static IP mode. When I tell it to try to contact the DNS server, it says it got an invalid response or no server was found. I have plenty...

Hi - I've got my Elk M1G communicating fine with my PC over ethernet/LAN to ElkRP2. However, I get frequent "connection terminated". I just tell it to log back it and it finds it again just fine, but I seem to get a random disconnect every few minutes or so. Any ideas?