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Hi. I have an Elk M1 alarm system with 3 keypads. I have a troubled teen who has been turning off the alarm at night and sneaking out, then resetting when they get back home. I was looking for suggestions on a solution where I could get a text or phone call when the alarm is turned off after...

So we have 3 keypads in our Elk M1 system. Been working great for a number of years. Keypad 2 stopped working and I replaced it. When I plug the new one I couldnt access the programming menu as the new keypad was interfering with the keypad already assigned to 1. I cant figure out what to do now...

So I am awoken at 1:30am with my alarm panel going beserk, followed by phone calls from my monitoring company.  Sometime in the middle of the night,  one of my 3 keypads stopped working, totally shut off.  The error code from my monitoring company was:    EXPANSION MODULE FAILURE-FRONT DOOR ZONE...

I have an office with 30 computers.  I want to allow all the computers to access the internet, and then access server A and server B.  I want server A and B to be separated from each other to allow traffic to flow without interruption.  I have diagrammed what I think the network should look...

I've had an M1 Gold for several years.  A few days ago I got a low battery warning on the panel.  I was going out of town and not able to change the battery.  When I got back the keypads were all dead and the main unit just had a power light on, no flashing leds at all.   I changed the battery...

I personally don't trust myself with a gun in the house.     What I was thinking of doing is linking my ELK to my HomeSeer.  When there is an alarm event have all the Z-Wave lights in the house come on 100%.   Then I was thinking of having an audio recording play through the house audio system...

  I've got a curious 4 year old boy and 3 year old boy.  Last thing I want is a handgun.  Actually, the last thing my wife would let me get is a hand gun.

I have an Elk M1 Gold system.  Of course I didn't have the system armed and left to run an errand and came home to a burglarized house.  Yeah they stole a bunch of stuff.  Yeah the police will never catch them.  Yeah I am a total idiot.   So lesson learned.  I've been arming my system on a...

I was going to go straight from my HomeSeer into the RCA aux input of the M&S, but the units are not near each other and I can't efficiently run a RCA cable to it.

I have an older M&S intercom system through my house with CD, AM/FM and Aux input via RCA connections. I am looking to to plug my HomeSeer into the Aux input to play my digital collection through the house. The problem is that the M&S is about 30-40 feet away from my HomeSeer ( line of site)...

My computer with ElkRP on it died and I want to do a fresh install on a new PC. I know my Elk serial number, but I have no idea what the access code is. Is there a way to obtain that? I also use HomeSeer with the ELK and it connects to it, maybe the code is stored there somewhere?

I have a long hallway and I am trying to figure out a way to determine is a person is leaving a room to go down the hallway, or if they are coming down the hallway to enter a room. I am sure I need to use motion sensors but I think I need something very precise. In my mind I am thinking laser...

Yes, I have checked on the master to ensure all units are turned on. I have even turned them all off, and turned one at a time on. With the units in Radio/Int mode I can page from the master to all units but not back from the units to the master. With the units in Int mode, I can't page from...

My house has an older 4 wire intercom system by M&S DMC1. I am able to play music through out the house perfectly. I am also able to use the intercom on the base station to talk to the rooms. However none of the rooms are able to intercom at all. I have checked the wiring and can see no...

I've been popping back and forth on tvix and popcorn hour. Cnet gave the later an amazing review as did Gizmodo. My main concern is the quality of playing AVIs over the projector that I have downloaded from a torrent. Currently I convert the AVI to DVD format and burn a disc, but that takes...