Recent content by Lensman

New twist. Brinks tells me I am locked in for 3 years so guess which part of the system I'm NOT starting with. :-) Given that there will be no alarm integration for at least two years, should I still be thinking about starting with a controller (ELK M1 Gold was the plan) or would a simple PC...

Thanks for the advice. I live at the shore in NJ near Atlantic City.

Excellent, thanks. They are less than 1 year old. I am guessing 2-wire as well. Just haven't had time to pull one yet and look. The weekend is coming.

I emailed Elk about the Z-Wave integration and they told me there are no plans to enhance the Z-Wave module. I asked if it was end-of-life and if so what were they looking at supporting going forward. No answer to date. Anyone here know? Are they leaning toward ZigBee? Is ZigBee even viable...

Thanks for all the replies. This helps a great deal. The smokes are wired into the panel (as are keypads) so I'm optimistic on their re-use. One poster suggested the EOLs belong in the field rather than at the panel. Curious as to why you feel that way. Having them at the panel makes...

I'm very close to buying Z-Wave and after reading this have certainly not formed a favorable opinion of SH or Insteon. I know they sell other HA equipment but if they are willing to treat customers this way, I don't intend to buy ANYTHING from them at all. That said, who are you Z-Wavers...

Will do more searching around here. I don't think there are any EOL resistors but will double check the panel and pull one door contact (easiest to get to) to be sure. Would there be EOL resistors on the smoke detectors as well? No wireless anything in this system so shouldn't be a problem...

Greetings Cocooners. This is my first post so be gentle :-) I wired my new home well for network and video (2 each cat5e, cat6, rg6 to each room) but not as well as I should have for HA. More wiring isn't the issue, I'll find a way to get wires where I need them (drop ceiling on the first...