Recent content by oldchachie

Hey there. I've essentially got a new house, have about half the siding work to go. I've been putting up vinyl siding flush mount blocks and wiring locations for 120v motion detect flood lights. I'd like to use a floodlight that has a camera and speaker built in like the ring floodlight camera...

roof is 60 ft long, 24 ft wide=168 lf perimeter, 6' spacing=28 lights. The reason for rgb is to be able to do some green red christmasy stuff, red blue 4th of july etc. the 6' spacing is probably overkill for ambiance lighting, but appropriate when I want 2 or 3 different colors.

Heyall, I'm rebuilding my house. I have about 30 lights I plan to put in the exterior aluminum soffit of the house. Something like...

I have to say, since Jedi suggested Loxone, I've "fallen in love" with that system, it seems like a very robust "prosumer" home automation system. All of the features of industrial automation, friendly ui for programming, solid apps (android and ios). I'd have to say it's a winner, with the...

from westcojack: The UL listing/code legality is why I'm digging into this a little more. I'd love to cobble together some parts for $8 each using a Raspberry Pi or something but it seems like I'd put a lot of work into it, then at some point (maybe 5 years) want/need to move and have to strip...

Wow costly. An Omni-bus 4 channel relay is $149 on amazon, that's $37/channel. Plus switch, that's back to $50/device. insteon isn't looking as unattractive as it was... I guess I I'm having a hard time wondering why I can get an 8 channel relay board for $50 when it's general purpose but din...

I have an old house, I'm tearing down to the studs. I will be doing the work myself.  I have an ELK m1g, pretty much just using it for security now.   I'd like to have all lights fully automated, as well as having some wall outlets automated. I think my original plan was to use insteon, which I...

As far as use, I'd just generally like to start being able to control some of the outlets in my home, say for a plug in lamp. I want the system to be hard wired, and as I mentioned, not controlled via powerline such as insteon etc. I just like the concept of having control wiring rather than...

Does anyone know of a regular 110V duplex receptacle that has an integral wired relay? Seems like this should be a common commodity in the wired home world, but all I can find is ones that work off of wirelesss or powerline... ? I don't want to have to make them, just by them.  

I've been going around in my head for a long time as to what I want/need for home servers and security. Here are some of the things I want: 1. A place to store a bunch of files including media, general backups, photos, computer files etc. 2. I run a minecraft server for the kids 3. Serve up to...

I've got a garage that has 4 overhead doors, one man door, and two windows. all of which have a door switch, running back to my Elk M1. I also have wiring set up but havnt acquired a motion sensor for the garage, but intend to shortly. My question is what are some grand ideas of how I can...

Thanks for the suggestions. Looked into the REX, and looks like a good option, buut I decided to just go with a little hidden and a whenever rule. Thanks!

does anyone have any elequent way to disarm a single door contact to allow the dog to go out at some point during the night? I'm installing a normally closed contact, but would like to do something easy like a single pushbutton to allow me or one of my kids to allow the dog to go out in the...

Awesome for me, I just got my Omnistat 2 hooked up to my M1G!!! it works!!! When I log in through M1 To Go, I can see the current temp on the Omnistat, and can adjust temps up and down. How can I use the "current temp" on the omnistat within elk? maybe I want to say "Whenever (omnistat temp) IS...

Thanks. @Jozza that was all i was looking for. Thanks for the module help too @gatchel