Recent content by bonez05

Any thing with a small footprint that is WIRELESS ip coming down the pipe?

Have a large rottweiler, he's my backup security system :)

Yeah maybe i will add a motion, I guess I was just worried about false alarms. I have dogs, and if I forget to close off the room could be more trouble than its worth.

BraveSirRobin, have a link for one? That may be the solution I'm looking for, plus adding a glassbreak should solve the problem.

okay great. just making sure I was on point. Right now the resistors are in the control box. I guess they'll stay that way, I'm not too worried about service people in my house.

Hi all, I'm kind of new at this. I have a EOL resistor question. I get the point of them -- for line supervision, but it seems to me that the EOL resistor should actually connect to the contact itself, rather than a few inches down the line... It seems most people install them a few inches back...

All the resistors were installed in the control box. I realize that's not ideal, but certainly made my life easier for switching out the Ademco for the elk. I'll have to play around with it some more and take the resistor i put on, off and see what the resistance is. I suppose the original...

Hi all, I recently replaced an old Ademco, with the Elk M1 and I'm learning a lot in the process. The ademco only had support for 6 zones, so the original installer wired the upstairs window contacts in series and put them all on one zone. Since I have more zones now, I separated them, and...

Great thanks everybody. I will dig deeper into the recommendations above. This should be a great starting point.

Hi all, I'm buying a home, and started doing a little research on home automation. I'm newb, and am having trouble telling what components do what. So I figured I come on here for some advice. I think I'm pretty sold on z-wave rather than INSTEON, as it seems zwave has more reputable...