Recent content by dxp178

OK guys and gals....I have a question for you. This evening I went ahead and unboxed my wired contact sensors for each of my doors. I see that my builder put in a 3/4" stopper to hold the wires in the frame of the door. I see my sensors are only 3/8" wide....what can I do? A. Send back...

Just got done with the pre-wire at the construction site. Wow! That was a lot of wires!! I know I missed a couple of things, but I'm hoping I caught 95% of the things I wanted to do! I'm about 3 months from moving in and I now wanted to work on my system setup. I've decided to go with ELK &...

Thanks for your input Paul...I appreciate it!

Newbie here building a house and coming down to the wire (excuse the pun) to have the layout completed for wiring. I've learned alot about wiring and HA on here and I'm currently looking to start procuring hardware for this great adventure. I'm stuck on an intercom system. I'm going with...

Thanks all for the help. I think I put the chicken before the egg on this one. Thanks for the link, BraveSirRobbin, that helped a great deal! For future people searching this thread...you need to forward the port, then install a webserver and then check to see if it is open. If you try to...

Thanks for the responses all... Scott, that really does help. I'll have to see what else I can do. The wife is going away for a couple of days so I can dig into it full blown this week. I'm hoping I'm just overlooking some setting on my router or my firewall. Thanks Dave

Greetings all... I'm just getting started in the Home Automation arena and I'm trying to get as much as I can setup before I truly dive into the wonderful world of HA. One of the items which I am extremely interested in is the ability to view my home and the status of my system from anywhere...

I've been doing a lot of Home Security / Home Automation research in preparation of my wife and I building a new home next year. However, in recent weeks there has been a rash of break-ins and security issues in our current neighborhood (one of the reasons we are looking forward to moving next...

First I'd like to thank everyone for all the great information on this site. I've been lurking around here for quite some time and I've learned alot. I hope to learn even more as I embark on this great journey of spending money!!! My wife and I building a house, well we haven't started yet...

Thanks all for the welcoming... Hillsborough, NC...just west of Durham. Looking forward to a great time around here! I didn't know Elk was an NC company...that may sway me in their direction! Dave

Greetings all from North Carolina!! I've been lurking in the shadows around here for quite some time. Soaking up all the information I can on HA. My wife and I are in the initial planning stages of building our dream house, thus this has been a great time to learn more about HA and how I am...