Recent content by Basildane

I think I found the filter that I currently have installed on my UPS, just for information's sake.   http://www.homecontrols.com/X10-PRO-Noise-Filter-3-Wire-XPXPF

You all are very helpful, thanks.  I ordered the PCS SPR.  I don't think that will solve the problem though, as even on the same phase, there is no signal. But I can't pass up this price on an SPR.  I have to wonder why the price is so low.

I actually got a different brand filter set rated at 15 A, 4 or 5 years ago and wired it in.  That hasn't helped much.  I don't recall the brand, it's in the panel right now. Are you suggesting taking two of these in parallel?

two things.  I don't know if I can use a repeater, I don't know which gen switches they are. and two, the worst zones are on the same phase as the pim, so a repeater could not help there.   two things..... no three.  Three!  I checked the repeaters, they are $300 - $400! 

Is it possible to tell if devices are Gen 1, 2 or 3 from Upstart? I see firmware versions 1.01, 1.04, 1.05, 1.06 and 1.08, but I have no idea which "Gen" they are.

There's an interesting idea.  Is it possible to connect 2 PIM's to an Omni?  Put one on each phase? I have one spare serial port.

Hi Pete, I never really went away, I've been lurking here, reading posts now and then.

I posted here years ago when I had severe UPB signal problems.  We traced the signal sucker to a UPS.  For the last 4 years or so, things seemed be ok, but now we are back to 50% of UPB units are dead, and signal levels are 2 for some devices.  What's even stranger is that some devices are fine...

The zone inputs are not designed to have an AC voltage applied to them.  As Work2Play said, you may be able to directly connect just the doorbell button to the zone, or, if you prefer, use a relay to drive the zone input.   One problem I can predict right away is that the zone inputs are not...

Nice!

The walls are drawn using Visio. But all of the controls, windows, doors, thermostats, card readers, and such, are custom controls. They respond to events from the HAI, and can trigger events. Doors for example turn from green-hatched to red-zigzag when they are opened...You don't see in the...

Thanks. I'm a dotNet developer at work, so I prefer the Microsoft dotNet 4.0 api for the speech recognition and synthesis. All of the grammar rules are written in C#.

Here's a really rough quick video of my security system, I built it myself, about 3,000 lines of C code. I don't have a lot of time, so the video was not rehearsed and the audio sucks, but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFe3jWTBbg I can do most anything with it. Garage door, yes. HVAC...

He is a huge Russian Doberman and they are lever handles. He opens doors with his nose, then closes them with his front paws. We had bubble-wrap taped to the doors to help keep them from getting scratched up. He still opens inside-doors in the house. At night he "patrols" and opens the doors...

I was looking to do the same thing with Arduino and RFID. Before I even got started designing, my wife trained our Dobe to open the front door, and CLOSE IT when he came back in. That was really cool, until he started letting himself out to chase the UPS man. Very uncool. Now we have to keep...