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Can anyone tell me, if video is in their engine-k format, what exactly is this? Is it possible to convert to avi or mpg?

If you have a magnetic sensor on the guest's door, or a motion sensor in the hall, could you set that so if the guest wakes up in the middle of the night and opens the door or whatever, to go downstairs, it would unset the alarm and turn the hall lights on?

That's the one... Cheers!

Hi all, odd request I know, but I remember there used to be a link here somehwere to a member who was building a new house that was going to be automated. Was a web gallery with a few hundred pictures I think, and I remember one overlooking a bay with some tugboats going along if that helps! Any...

Hehe, I saw this one when it was transmitted back earlier this year. Didn't realise there were so many US guys watching Topgear. Bloody good series I thought.

Thanks for the tips on the cable management. I will definately look into getting some horizontal and vertical cable management systems. Does anyone have a range they really like? I want to avoid ones where I have to unplug wires or post them through loops to wire it in - I'd much rather have...

Hi all, I'm planning a new build and want to floodwire with CAT5. I will be wiring alarm system with standard alarm cable and then running this back to the alarm panel in the "HA closet" as normal, however for the CAT5 I will want to run this back to some large patch panels. How do you all...

Breakers in the panel for ring mains (socket circuits) tend to be 30A or 32A depending if they're the modern ones or not. All plugs tend to be fused 13A or less depending on load. Cabling tends to be 2.5mm2 as far as I am aware. Sockets are wired in rings usually, ie, cable goes from breaker to...

Would this work with those cheapy usb imported soundcards you can get off Ebay? I'm just thinking it'd allow for many more zones without requiring a large mobo with many PCI slots...

Hi, I'm looking at building a DIY A/V Switcher built around some MAX4456's for video and 4052's for audio. I was wondering what you'd all want if you were building this switch, suggestions for features I might want, etc. So far I'm going to have 8 S-Video inputs and 8 S-Video outputs in an...

yes and no. at the moment I've built a simple QPROX touch sensor switch for each room. it's a simple circuit, using 2 pairs of the CAT5. one for +5/GND, the other for two logic signals. The chip I use gives me two channels, with two electrodes placed behind the wall plate. Touching the left...

Am I the only one who'd prefer a custom solution? If working on a new build (like I was), it was really nice running CAT5 to each switch and each light back to a central location to eventually put dimmers in there with digital control. At the moment I haven't got that far, I have homemade QPROX...

yeah currently I'm at the stage you're at. I'll take some pictures of what I have so far and post them tomorrow. Basically it's RS232 (via a usb->serial convertor) send over 2 pairs of the CAT5 (tx, rx, +5v and 0v). Theres a small board I soldered which takes the serial and power and puts them...

Hi Dwayne, Sorry to drag up this thread but I was wondering if you have any example software for VB6.0? These look very promising and I'm eagerly awaiting the time when we find out how big a hole in our pocket I'm gonna have to make :P Ben

ok thats good. These picaxe chips are quite good. I'm working on a new project with them now which allows me to have individually adressable 20x2 LCDs with adjustable backlight and 6 buttons per remote outstation, connected back with CAT5 to a master chip then via serial into a PC. So far I've...