Recent content by Ira

I use Hubitat instead of Home Assistant, but here's what I plan on doing... The Zooz ZAC38 z-wave extender (on sale for about $20 today) has an attribute that tells the current power source (mains power or battery power). As long as my Hubitat is still functioning (it is on a UPS), it can...

Can a 4-wire system consisting of multiple System Sensor 4WTA-B smokes (all daisy chained on the same zone) be "expanded" by adding Elk 2-way wireless smokes (ELK-6052)? I'm thinking rules will need to be set up to cause all smokes (wired and wireless) to sound when one smoke trips, similar to...

You may want to take a look at the Hubitat Elevation... https://hubitat.com/ It has built-in support for zwave devices.

@RAL I read your post about the complexities of having 4-wire detectors on multiple zones. Great explanation. Do you know if a 4-wire system consisting of multiple System Sensor 4WTA-B smokes (all daisy chained on the same zone) can be "expanded" by adding Elk 2-way wireless smokes (ELK-6052)...

Just received the ELK Products News and Highlights for January email and it has promo prices for a couple of items I'm interested in. However, none of the approved online retailers show the promo prices. How/where can I buy the items at the promo prices?

I'm curious what other M1G owners do when they have used up all their miscellaneous voice messages (i.e., vm239 thru vm248) and custom recorded messages, and they want to add a message that doesn't correspond to any of the "non-miscellaneous" messages. Do you choose an existing non-misc message...

Unfortunately, no news on the new 7" touchscreen.

Any indication on the price of the new 7" touchscreen?

I bought the Hubitat Elevation (HE) about a year ago. I don't remember why I chose it over Home Assistant (HA), but I remember considering HA. Maybe when I looked at HA, it wasn't being offered as an appliance, which would have been a huge negative for me. A lot of HE users also use HA, mainly...

Looks like my HA/security/etc. solution will need a raspberry pi. HA will be done by a Hubitat hub (mostly using z-wave devices). Security will be handled by an Elk M1 integrated with Hubitat. Apple Home/Homekit will front end everything and provide the UI for iPhones and iPads. Hubitat will be...

I'm roughing in the smoke detectors on a new build. This house is outside the city limits, and the county does not do inspections. There are three bedrooms, none of which share a hallway, i.e., two are on opposite sides of the first floor and the third is upstairs. Each bedroom will have a...

I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind wire sizes vs breakers. In this case, the relay and LED drivers will be mounted on plywood mounted on an attic brace to get it all off the attic floor. All of the connections to the relay wires will be done inside a junction box that will also...

I plan on using a Function Devices RIBU2S2 relay as part of this project . The wires provided by the relay are 18ga. On the "line in" side, they will be connected to 12ga romex wires from a circuit on a 20A circuit breaker. The "load" side will go to a couple of Halo HLB6 LED wafer recessed...

Just to close this out... I asked the seller of the floodlights I'm using about this. He said the lights can be turned on/off with a regular non-dimmer switch. The lights will turn on with full brightness if the two control wires are capped (not connected) at the switch box. I tried it with...

I'm using several 0-10V dimmable LED floodlights at our new home (still under construction). In addition to the 120Vac wires, these lights have "0-10Vdc control wires" between the dimmer switch and the light to control the brightness. I plan on using the appropriate dimmer switches for them...