Recent content by Meroe

Ahha been there done that. I am lucky to have a wife that loves to save and save and save so I give her credit for that. Plus, I don't want to mess with her right now as our 3rd child is on the way. Due in October so I would be playing with fire right now.

I guess I will wait for a bit then as I really don't want to go with anything X10 related. I really want something that integrates into the wall not a module type installation.

You are correct. I'm a true geek at heart, but got married and had a couple of kids so I'm kind of rusty. I can write a program to do just about anything in many languages, but you hit the nail on the head. I just want to get my feet wet. I know how involved this can get as I've been...

Hello guys and gals, I'm wanting to get started in home automation and figured this is the best place to start. I want to be able to control 1 light in the main room from my pc in my office as a start. Once I get this figured out and installed I should be in business, but again I want to...

If you have a modem comptable with the NX8 and DL900 you can "dial" into your panel. I don't have a land line here at the house so this wasn't a good option for me. The resistor method creates an offhook basically and when you dial with the dl900 (any number) you hit *99 on the panel to open...

I got impatient and needed to reset my panel so i made my own connector to the telco portion of the board using a 470 ohm resistor. Radio Shack had everything I needed and it worked great. I spent the last 5 hours tweaking the system exactly how I wanted it and I'm good to go. Total cost...

Okay thanks. I was hoping it was build in RS232 so I didn't need to buy anything new :rofl:

My board has a series of pins titled "data tap". Any idea what this is for?

I believe both need the cable, but the nx8e doesn't need the addon module as it already has the serial connector on the board. I could be wrong, but that is what I though i read.

It won't let me post links yet... boo :rofl: The NX-584 I mentioned is: NX-584 - Caddx Home automation/Access control interface w/RS232 The Cable I mentioned is: GE NetworX Serial Cable For NX-8E GEP0003 Add to your NetworX Security System and Home Automation. GE Security offers this...

Hello guys/gals, I would like to program my NX-8 via DL900 and was curious if these two items would get me there... I've done a lot of reading and think I'm set with the items below but I want to make sure there is nothing else I need. NX-584 Serial Cable I have a laptop with a serial...