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I use an irrigation caddy myself - been fairly happy with it :)

The Cisco controller based Wireless AP's all support the handoff features allowing seemless roaming between AP's without dropping calls (for VoWlan specifically). I dont know the exact spec on the handoff feature - I know its good enough to support VoIP which is pretty touchly with latency and...

The Zero-hand off feature sounds good. I've played with a few Ubiquiti products and while they are a great small biz/prosumer product I dont think they compare to the Cisco AP/controller products - I certainly wouldnt want to try and support a VoIP WLAN environment with them. perhaps for a home...

I'd agree 'overkill' for a home - the typical nature of home telephony is cordless and the cisco cordless phones aren't that 'cool' - and you must have a very solid wifi network to ensure consistent quality, a controller based wifi network is basically a requirement for multi-ap networks (to...

drvnbysound - hit me up as well, I'm a cisco engineer and would be happy to assist If i can - sounds like a fun project. It sounds like you have a fairly basic network that suffers from a lot of the typical saturation and design issues that occur with poorly designed (or thrown together)...

Ok - Quick update on my project. I sucessfully tested the configuration I was hoping for and it works great. I have the PIR's contacts (normally closed) connected to 5+VDC and the other to one of the boards digital interfaces. As expected the PIR trips momentarily when motion is sensed. I wrote...

First off - thank you for those that have commented. I know that the PIR might not be 100% accurate as far as activity goes :-) but if it becomes a problem i think i could use the PIR as an input and use the PLC logic to lets say keep one of the inputs tripped for 30 seconds etc. As far as...

First off - Thank you all in advance - this is my first electrical project(I'm very confortable with electronics - but this is the first real project I'm putting together) and your time and assistance would be greatly appreciated. I've got an interesting problem... monitoring the usage of the...

Hey all - thank you all for the details and info. I'm deff going to check out eKeypad, they seems to be fully embracing the ipad as a control point (as well as the ipod/iphone). They also seem to support all of the systems I'm looking into - at least initially. I'm also looking for a slick...

Hi all - long time lurker, I have plans to add a security system and would like some of the basics - exterior lighting control, thermostat control, sprinkler/irrigation control and cameras (front door first and perhaps one on the driveway / rear door). If anyone has a recommendation for a nice...

Checkout www.crashplan.com The home 'family' pack allows you to backup the whole house to offsite datacenter with unlimited size - its encrypted, dedup, incremental backups etc. It also runs on multiplatform and server os's. All for $5 a month (not per pc). You can also run it between systems...

You might check out Monoprice as well - they have a relatively new section with Security products. I dont have any personal experience with them but I've been very pleased with all over monoprice purchases.. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product....=1&format=2

* 1/6/2010 * Update The Whole House Surge Suppressor is installed, as is the brultech ecm-1240. I have the main leads of the brultech setup but I havent determinted how to group the rest of the loads into the remaining channels. I ordered additional CT's to allow me to group multiple circuits...

d.dennerline - Thank you for your comments. I hadn't really planned out power usage and needs - I very well might end up not being able to use the standard enclosure and battery down the road. I'll rethink those aspects. As far as the other items - I havent really detailed where I'll have the...

* 12/31/09 Update * I've been putting some serious thinking into this project and after hearing back from a local contractor I've come up with a plan. I will break the install up into multiple phases due to budget limitations. I'm planning on having the following sensors installed as part of the...