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  Really!? I have a 12v supply for closet LED lights and stair lights in the vacinity of my switch. I may actually use that and save some PoE ports since that switch was not cheap!

I use these devices all the time. They are excellent. The longest reach I setup was in Eastern WA, line of sight at 3 miles and we get 110Mbps uplink. It has been going for over a year without a hiccup. I have only had one issue with these devices and it turned out to be bad cat5 connector. I...

I see the face of home automation changing drastically with these devices. I look forward to a day where I am spending hours on programming my netduino boards instead of tweaking the actual system. I have used most over the last 20 years from X10s first software package and none have impressed...

Acti has some newly released cameras in that price range with good quality. Take a look at the E32/E33 for bullets and the E72/3 for domes. Not sure how it works with the Elk but they support ONVIF.

The puck's that I ordered were great. I was actually worried that they had a strange looking grid of LED that was highly visible in the light, but once I had them installed, the large visible LEDs actually look great and add a modern flair to the pucks. As for light, I went with the warm LEDs...

Quixote_1, I think it is on topic. A company that shirks support like that isn't somebody I want to deal with in the long run, I'll pay a bit extra out the door. With that in mind, I ordered Super Bright LEDs these today. I chose these for a few reasons: 1. I plan to put three of them along...

Thanks! I am leaning towards low voltage simply for ease if installation since this is a retro fit and will require less drywall patching. Plus, I should be able to light most of the closets with one PSU using LED. All are great options. I'll do some research and post the results.

I have 120v door switches, but was leaning towards low voltage strips or flush mount pucks.

I am currently replacing closet doors and have door switches that will turn on LED light bars once the door is opened. Just a simple circuit. My question, it seems there are a ton of LED companies out there, has anybody had good luck with any specific ones?

Regarding WMCE driver. I turned the source over to Johnny, but I don't know if he has done anything with it. I used WCF for communication between WMCE and the driver and a freeware MP3 tag library. I believe he'd want to rewrite those to use his own TCP protocol and MP3 library (pure assumption...

I used Elve and wrote a Window's Media Center driver for it a while back. I am not using anything now and starting to work on a whole new system (ex got the last one). I haven't used CQC so I cannot give a direct comparison. I personally liked Elve for a number of reasons. The biggest reason...

Thanks, ZWave has a socket rocket, but no stick on switch, UPB has a stick on switch that is considerably more expense ~250 for receiver and switch. I think I'll stick with X10 on this one, thanks for the information tho!

Hello all, its been a while since I have been on the forum (divorce sort of got in the way of all automation projects)... Anyway, I am in a rental temporarily which has the most annoying light switch placement (e.g. have to leave the room, walk down the hallway to turn on the light) and I wanted...

I see one major issue with this device in terms of home automation: no replaceable battery. While you may get 2 years on a battery before the battery life degrades to a point that it becomes an issue, you'll have to live without the device for a couple of weeks to get a battery replaced. This...

This is great, #20 should fix issues with receiving the arm/disarm events in J9's automation engine!