Recent content by Tombo

What kind of stuff do you want to do. I use mine to get status or send voice commands to my kids. I rolled my own and it sends commands to my elk (alarm or voice commands) and to the controlthink sdk for lights. I really am not that happy with it because Messenger is complicated and is...

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Where can you buy these GE smoke detectors that work with the wireless Elk interface?

Do you input the camera into a video capture device? Which one? Is it a color camera? Thanks Tom

I like my Elk. Also, you dont need HomeZix to create C# programs, but nice hobby program.

Can anyone tell me in a paragraph what is the "Russound Audio System" and what does it do for me. What kind of cool things does it do and what does connecting it to an Elk offer users. Will it play Highway to Hell when someone breaks into my house?:D Tom

Good questions. I would like to know the same. If the Elk is so much better why does it need to only support the crystal versions of the transmitters. What is different about it as far as the RF and circuitry. In particular why add this thing to the Elk line in the first place. I think...

http://news.com.com/Judge+puts+halt+on+new...tml?tag=nl.e498 For those with vonage like myself, we might need a new service soon. Another example (just like the stupid Lutron patent infringement lawsuit) of our legal system rewarding losers like Verizon with their greedy lawyers for another...

What will the list price be on this module and what benefits will it have over the GE Caddx versions? Tom

So you tell me you think that using RF to send back a status is an invention worthy of a patent. I dont. I think RF has been used enough in the past for so many other purposes that it does not make this an invention. Bogus is not over the top in my view. Defending the patent successfully...

Did they patent Z-wave mesh networking? Did they patent a light switch that uses a relay or triac? Tell me what was copied! Its a bogus patent lawsuit that is NOT being infringed upon. There is no technology being copied! Its an idea which is a stretch. If Lutron had half a brain it...

What they need to do is get around the legal system. Make some kind of plugin that enables the status being transmitted but do not put it in the product. Then get some chinese / hong kong company to sell this plugin. Laws and patents are made to be bypassed. That is what capitalism is...

That same stuff was said last year. Coming out.

A lower cost temperature/humidity sensor appeals to me as well. I like the Elk M1G also and think it is a great investment.