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    TV Prewires in 2018

    This is my final solution as of now..  To TV - smurf tube to attic..  2 cat5, coax and string from attic through tv lv ring to outlet hight LV ring.     From TV to bookcase - 2 HDMI, 1 coat, 1 cat, 1 smurf.   From bookcase to attic - 2 cat, 1 coax, 1 smurf.( not in my picture )    Link to...
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    Recommend a Camera

    do you just want real time or do you want recording?  I am a big fan of HIK cameras. best value under $100
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    TV Prewires in 2018

    It has been about 6 years since I set constructed my house.  My brother is having a house built for him and we were thinking about the TV prewire.   For wall mounted TVS, We were thinking : 1)ethernet cables to media closet.    Thought here was one for TV and one for any small set top box that...
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    Replacing Front Door - Best Home Automation Friendly Lock

    Del -  I was re-reading some of your other posts on door locks and it seems like you mention electrified locksets in some threads.   Is that something you (still) recommend?  I assume you mean something like these SDC ones? http://sdcsecurity.com/electrified-locksets.htm.   If so, I searched a...
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    Replacing Front Door - Best Home Automation Friendly Lock

    Thanks...  Are you saying there would be a preload issue because someone will often be pushing on the door or are you saying a closed residential door often doesn't close in exactly the same way and has some preload. I was thinking about a strike...  But all the strikes I have used in the past...
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    Alexa UPB Bridge

    for that price you could likely get a CQC license and small PC and control a lot more then those swtiches
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    Replacing Front Door - Best Home Automation Friendly Lock

    I am replacing my front door and thinking about tying in some locks in to alarm/home automation combo.  I use ELK and getting back in to using CQC. Goals -  *When I leave for work I do not want to take a set of house keys when I go to work every day.  *Arm should be able to tell if the door is...
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    Amazon Echo control UPB lighting - Have Elk M1

    very interested in this as well.  that UPB bridge is crazy expensive.  what is interesting is that it seems they are leveraging the smart home api and then just forwarding the commands on to upb.  I am of course over simplifying this a but there is an amazon api and python and other apis for...
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    Controlling UPB lights vai andriod (have Elk)

    Any recommendation of an andriod app to control UPB lighting?   On my phone I use m1 touch via the elk but  that app doesnt work in landscape mode and voip phones are in landscape. My preference would be to have widgets for a few key lights or scenes...  Does anyone have such a thing  i would...
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    ELK - M1XP - Ethernet - Update Firmware - Now all sorts of disconnects

    I think I found it..   About 6 months ago I got a new router and changed the default gateway from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.1.  The ,m1exp had the wrong gateway and was set to static ip..  Maybe I changed it from dynamic back to static when I was doing the upgrade.  that plus the bad gateway...
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    ELK - M1XP - Ethernet - Update Firmware - Now all sorts of disconnects

    Firmware upgrade went fine.. I can say that the network at least sorta worked as I could connect via elkrp via ip...  Yes.. alarm relay uses a DSC- Sur-Gard protocal.    
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    ELK - M1XP - Ethernet - Update Firmware - Now all sorts of disconnects

    These are my errors. looks like it 'restores' and then goes bad in two minutes and stays bad for 13-15 minutes then goes 'good' and then bad almost right away.  I am using alarm relay.  years ago I had disconnects from time to time but it has been stable for at least a year or two before I did...
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    ELK - M1XP - Ethernet - Update Firmware - Now all sorts of disconnects

    I recently updated the firmware on my elk m1xp hoping I could get the outgoing emails working again and now I get lots of disconnects from the central station.   I 'upgraded' to 2.0.42.  Are there any known problems with this version?  If needed, is it possible to go backwards with firmware...
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    Software for planing layouts and documenting wiring etc

    I am working on a decent size project now that is going to have a good 50 CAT5 home runs with 20 cameras, automated lighting controls and security.  Can anyone recommend software for overlaying building  plans with a low voltage plans..  And something that would help make a nice wiring diagram...
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    Lighting Controls - For Dog Boarding facality

    I assume by Lutron you mean radiora?
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