Recent content by penright

  Seems like I have seen this comment before, what is different?   My old house had some cheap ones. Having monitored smoke detectors was one of the main reasons for me buying an alarm. We have a new house and I am starting to look alarm panels myself. The new house built in 2016 has both smoke...

  No apologies necessary, I the one who is out of the loop on acronyms.       I have a Almond+, it supports zwave, zigbee, and ip.  So the approach sensors were hardwired and there are RFID receivers that can read from a distance. This is part of your alarm panel? What brand of hardware is that...

Pete, thanks for the reply, but I am so new I got lost in the abreviations. I think your post was in two parts. One was controlling the lights and the second was sensing the car.    Would like to understand the RFID tagging better.   On the subject of the 3-way, did I understand correctly, you...

Wasn't quit sure what title or how to set up the question. I did do some googling on the subject. I understand the principle behind 3-Way, how the travelers are wired. Let me see if I can set the stage ..... I have two multi-switch boxes. I will use the real locations.   Location 1: House Main...

Now that it's been a few months, what do you think? See @dvpvic question on cell service? Is cell service included? Are you using hardwire sensors? Can I ask hardware cost?     Did you ever get any answers?

I hope this is the proper place to ask these questions. I was wanting to understand Elk and while chasing down a thread, I found CocoonTech. I have a lot of questions and I don't know what they are ... :-) I am trying to compare Home Security (HS) in an apple to apple as much as possible. My old...

  Pete, thanks. Started a thread in the development thread there under penright. Haven't been back in awhile. Been trying to close on old house, finally got that out of the way. My next focus is finishing the new shop at the new house. The building is finished, I just need to organize. I don't...

Since I am new, I can't post a link back to my introductory to give some context, but this statement is why I joined this forum. I am not new construction, but I do have a clean slate. I am looking for that HS (Home Security) and HA (Home Automation) Job separation while at the same time for the...

Sorry, no, our City Manager is Tim Young

Stumble across this site. A thread got started in Garage Journal on HA (Home Automation). Someone mentioned Elk M1, so I had to google to see what it was. Some thread in that search got me here.  After some quick reads, I have been looking for a forum like this for awhile. I do have several...