Recent content by snakevargas

Thanks, this worked, the alarm is back on again, and I have not been woke up by any annoying beeps. I'll put it back to normal on Friday...

My battery in the panel has gone sour and it's going to be the end of the week before I get a new one. Yes, I know that entering the code and pressing asterisk will clear the trouble, but then it'll test the battery the next night and start beeping in the middle of the night again.   I'm...

While the OS release (Windows 8.1) is the same, it's possible that the two machines don't have identical sets of Windows updates installed. My laptop often has windows update disabled, as having the laptop go suddenly unstable in the middle of a business trip can be unpleasant.

Elkrp2 on my Windows 8.1 pc is unable to connect to my M1XEP. The error message it prints is unhelpful, "Connection error: Could not connect.". At some point in the past this used to work. It doesn't now. I upgraded to 2.0.34 today with no luck.   I've tried turning off my firewall. I've...

I'm very excited!

I installed the subpanel.

The mini-split is 240V, no neutral required. It's an inverter compressor, which is supposed to have very low inrush at start.   My original plan was to see if I could wire double connections to the feed lugs of the disconnect. Yes, I realize this means checking the disconnect to see if it's...

I'm adding a mini split to a home with existing central air. The mini split's compressor will be located close enough to the main compressor that sharing the existing electrical would be enormously convenient. The existing central air has a 50 AMP breaker feeding 6-2 to a 40 AMP disconnect. The...

It's DST time again, and I'm looking to get my M1G properly setup (I've had NTP disabled since going around in circles last year trying to fix the off-by-an-hour problem).   As such, I'd like to know the time servers folks are using, and I will try them in my install and keep my fingers crossed.

I like this remote controlled relay appropach. Although blinking a light will probably suffice, I do wish there was better two-way communication.   I'm also thinking about just automatically arming the house to say mode after the garage door has been closed. For example, 5 or 10 minutes after...

The wife has decided this year we're going to start parking her car in the garage. She leaves early in the morning. I work from home. I generally like having the alarm armed in 'stay' mode while I'm home, in particular so the garage door is protected.   1) Our current method is for her to disarm...

  Nope, no changes whatsoever. I checked the log. It shows entries like this:   14:46 Telephone line restore 14:39 Telephone line fault trouble   The time between trouble and restore varied from 3 minutes to 20 minutes. There were no significant events prior to this happening. No alarms went...

I ended up setting the telephone's reporting type to "disabled" and that resolved the issue. Found that fix in an older thread here about phone faults. I guess it would have helped to search before I posted!

The keypad has been beeping and displaying "phone fault" all morning. I don't use the dialer. I don't have it connected to the phone line. Any way to figure out what the panel is upset about?

It looks like they also sell firmware that can be installed in an XEP? I thought the XEP was quite limited in resources and that's why we couldn't get SSL support until the java server was dumped.