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So each switch has a paddle that moves, and around that paddle is a thin line of plastic the surrounds the paddle, and the switchplate install over that. on the BOTTOM of this plastic "frame" look carefully, is there a split, and if so can you use your fingernail and pull the split to you? This...

So there are different possibilities here. I was never a fan of this, but to save money, sometimes they would just use one real switch to control the lights, and the other two would be "remote" switches. These remote switches just used one wire to control the real switch. These "remote" switches...

You need to use the FlexGuard FG-701 which is specified. Generally these sensors are pretty reliable so just make sure they are dusted out.

Yes, its the inverter part. I had a inverter Panasonic microwave that was terrible as well. Another problem I have seen with the inverter devices is longevity, but that's another story. The microwave only lasted two years. The good news, as a AC it has its own breaker, so that might help. I...

I use Emby, which works good. So how is Jellyfin different?

Here is an Amazon posting tip. When posting an Amazon link, only post from the start to just BEFORE the question mark. Disregard the question mark to the end, It just contains tracking info about you and is not needed. (It might even be a security risk.). Use this link

I can't speak for ELK, but the HAI one is very simple, the sensor outputs a voltage relative to the temp or humidity. The "extended" temp sensor does the same with a wider temp range. I think it will be hard to find off-the shelf parts to replicate this, because if the temp range of the sensor...

My mistake. I don't use Alarm Relay anymore. Something they did made me mad also, so I switched. I use SafeHomeCentral now. They have been OK but also didn't tell me about this web page until I discovered it by accident. Sorry, my mistake.

They do have web page where you can administer your alarm. They never told me about it but I stumbled across it somehow. myalarms.com

This one might be worth creating a redesign for. They are quite simple. They do nothing more than to take a temperature range (regular or extended) and convert that to a 0-5v signal. The circuit runs on 12v. I'll search, but there has to be other circuits out there that do that. A...

68 ohm sounds about right. The ELK manual doesn't give a spec for contact wire, but DOES give a spec for smoke alarms, and its 13 ohms and it uses an 820 ohm resister as opposed to 2.2K ohm. There are two big reasons not to violate these specs. 1) The reason for an EOL is to detect wire...

The range is typically pretty long. Look in the manual, it typically will give the length for each wire size.

Connecting a Omni to the Internet through a router is not different from connecting any other wired Internet device to the Internet. The only "tricky" part is the Omni doesn't support DHCP like most other devices. DHCP allows a device to request an IP address from the router. The Omni requires...

I have read about a semi possible solution. There is a new USB ATSC 3.0 tuner that supports encryption. Its NOT a network tuner, and you need one for every TV, and the TV has to use a Fire TV or Google TV. Only one channel at a time and NO way to record. About $70 each. So not a great solution...

The Huawei chip "thing" is just a smokescreen. That is not the real problem. Seems like the current administration has used lots of that smokescreens. The HDHomeRun is a network tuner, the GTMedia unit is not. The GTMedia box connects to a tv with an HDMI cable. Can you give examples of other...