Recent content by mikesm

RAL, thanks for the note.  One thing though, if I use the heat/freeze/flood types, won't the alarm go off if sensor detects water, etc...?  That is, the siren would go off?  I wouldn't want to have water detected in the night causing all the neighbors get woken up.  Does it just beep on the...

PS I assume that if I didn't care about heat or freeze, I could only enroll the one zone, and then set the loop value appropriately, and worry about the other sensor inputs?  I'm in the SF Bay area, and the house is very well insulated, so heat or freeze is probably not very useful...

  Thanks for the quick reply.  Yes, definitely would like to be notified on the keypads!  I assume then I would want to put them on Area 1 (the main area) use the aux alarm (type 13 or 14), not enable the silent alarm, and not a separate area?   Thx mike

Ok, I called them and got some good info to help resolve this.  This is for everyone who might be seeing the same problem.   1) Do not create a set of wireless zones that have no real devices in them.  I had planned to enroll a bunch of RE218's that had 3 loops in each, so created 3 wireless...

I am running 2.0.40 of ElkRp2.  Maybe I should try downgrading to 2.0.38?   EDIT: 2.0.38 doesn't seem to be available for download...  I guess I should report this as a bug?

Hi everyone.  I have a Elk M1G with 7 hardwired expanders and a M1XRF2H receiver.   I have had the system configured and running for the hardwired zones for over a year and working well.  I am now trying to enroll a few of the Alula RE218 flood sensors into the system.   As far as I can tell...

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  This is a good idea.  I'll try this and see what happens to the errors. How would I debug an RS485 databus error in the Elk system? Are there tests that I can run that would flag something? As I said I have ethernet on parallel run CAT5 that seems to work fine. It could be a connector or...

Ok, adjusting the pot in the Altronix took the voltage up to 11.2V at the expander in the poolhouse.  But I am still seeing system start up errors reported.  I am wondering now if that isn't the problem in the first place....

Ok, I adjusted the pot to up the voltage to 13.5V, and that did increase the voltage on the panel feeders to the local expander connectors from 12.75 to about 13.3V.  Next job is to go to the poolhouse and see the voltage there, but the SYSTEM START UP messages are still occuring.  Maybe...

Ah, I see the trim pot in the manual (though it's not described).  If the Elk can handle the higher voltages, should I turn up the voltage to 13.5 or so?  That may offset the voltage drop in the poolhouse all by itself...     thx! mike

Well, I use one of these: https://www.altronix.com/products/AL600ULACM to drive all the expansion zones.  It says 12V output, which is why I answered 12V before, but actually just measured the voltage on the expanders, and it says 12.75V.  Why did you think it should be 13.5V?     I have...

Thanks for the quick reply!   This has been happening since the system was installed.  It's a brand new house, and since it was easy to do all the wiring when all the walls were open, we had each window on it's own zone, and a bunch of wireless water detection sensors, etc...  It's a LOT of...

Hi.  I have an Elk 16 input expander in a poolhouse, that is connected by a couple cat5 runs to the M1 Gold panel in the main house.  It seems to work OK, but the logs on the ELK Rp2 show "1367 -SYSTEM START UP" errors every few secs on that input expander.     I measured the voltahge at the...

  That looks like a neat sensor, and the dock looks nice, but even without the dock, it'd double the price of the fibaro unit.  At least I haven't found a low price anywhere so far.  :)   What is the battery life like?   thx mike