Recent content by ControlFreak

+1 for Hydreon http://www.rainsensors.com/ I mounted on roof. At first raindrop, all sky vents shut. Works perfectly. Not fooled by fog/condensation (I live at beach). I have it wired to a zone on my HAI (of course you could do same with ELK). "Dries out" immediately if you want, though you can...

I don't know anything about UPB limitations. I have Lutron + HAI OmniProII and they work well together. I'll take a crack at roughly HOW it works, which might give you some confidence in its reliability. Lutron is very verbose. It broadcasts every change (to button presses, button LEDs, light...

So, yes, I have achieved two way communication between HAI OmniPro2 and Lutron Homeworks QS using the RadioRA2 functionality built into HAI. The new Lutron Homeworks QS processor does not have a serial port. You must install the Lutron QSE-CI-NWK-E Control Interface (“NWK”)...

Just finishing up a new house build. We fought and lost the code battle about using alarm-panel smoke/heat detectors INSTEAD of high voltage (HV) ones. But: 1. I have (IN ADDITION to the HV smokes) installed some alarm-panel (AP) heat detectors in some areas where I don't have high-voltage...

HAI has built in functionality for *classic* homeworks and for RadioRA2. But I have the new Lutron system which is Homeworks QS. The integration protocol looks much closer to RadioRA2 (use of integration IDs) than to the classic homeworks protocol (hex-based device ids). And it appears from...

HAI has two relay boards intended to be controlled by HAI outputs. Example is 10A07-1 which has 4 relays (they also have an 8-relay version). Each can switch 5amps for 24vdc. Assuming your lock is DC, then this is more than enough. When set to "on", the HAI board output triggers the relay...