Recent content by nlaredo

You guys are pretty brave to open up port 80 on your elk m1xep to the outside world.   I hope you'll follow the suggestion to use an ekeypad type app like myKeypad that relies on the secure 2601 port.

Aww.. I hadn't noticed this line in the manual until you mentioned it: "NOTE: It is NOT POSSIBLE to learn (enroll) an access credential directly using only an M1KAM." I guess this means I'll need more than one reader after all since I won't be able to enroll more cards if my only reader is at...

At only $199 i couldn't resist buying a nexus 7 with an ultimate goal of mounting more than one in walls where I might want control panels for the m1g. It is *just* the right size... It turns out there is one minor issue.. you can't wake it from sleeping by touching the screen and the only...

Sorry, I can't help but take your bait. Try this experiment: Install windows xp sp2 from CD on a computer you have at work.. don't do anything with it but connect it to the internet. See how long it takes to end up with a blaster virus on it. You may have to travel back to 2004 for this to...

In my case, I really just want to watch alarm sensor status or security cameras from wherever I am without lugging an ipad around. I guess in summary it's just laziness for me... and then I have two kids that like to listen to the same two songs over and over again... so party mode is useless...

I'm sure microsoft is happy to have their employees run windows. My work does not trust windows and by extension, I am not allowed to trust it. My employer is on the fortune 500 list close to the top. I wouldn't argue that osx is any more secure, just less of a target... but I would argue...

I've also been using an obi110 since very early in this thread after your first post got me to research it, and I'm really happy.. and you've just given me hope that if my alarm panel tries to dial out, it might actually succeed (it's never tried since I've never had a "real" phone line).

I don't know what's actually in the nexus Q, but I do know that when I saw that, my first thought was "oh maybe it's so expensive because they stuck a galaxy nexus in there without a screen" so then I thought about how to accomplish what I wanted with all the old android phones I have... except...

My wife's favorite automation rule: turn all the lights and any other automated devices off in the house at half past midnight, every day except new years day. We have two kids so we're nearly always asleep before midnight, and when we're not, it's a good reminder, "hey, you should be sleeping...

I'm surprised you still have a dial on your hot water heater. Mine has pushbutton temp settings... potentially easier to automate, but also may be something you run into when you have to replace your water heater in ten years, but it's also gas, and also has a powered vent system.. and also in...

My current craziest is probably adding a badge reader to my garage door so I can use my work badge to get into my house when I walk home from work. People tell me it would have been easier to just carry an opener or put a keypad outside... or actually carry keys. I've replaced every light...

One thing I forgot to mention, the thought of having a windows machine running full time is a potential security nightmare to me, and I think it should be to most people. Anything I have running windows is on an isolated network with no access to anything internally in my house and I only keep...

The disadvantage of most of these things is that it means you need to leave a power hungry computer on. I prefer the isy99i since it controls insteon and has a crude programming interface. I use this for control of my sprinklers (via ezflora) and I have insteon switches for all my lights, so...

If you run cat5 to a zone input expander in the garage, you can use the center blue pair as a single hardwired zone that also goes to the garage in the same cat5 wire that you might run already. The DBH doesn't use the center pair for cat5 wiring itself.. it just sits otherwise unused. Could...

Seems to me this would be easier to just control an i2c digipot from a microcontroller to give the elk whatever voltage you want from 0-12v and use the voltage level to represent relative humidity and set the channel to raw value mode... then any input -- even expander (M1XIN) inputs -- would...