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I still have a hard time trusting all these cloud-based systems.  I have some integration, sure - I can lay in bed watching TV with my AppleTV remote and with the same remote, say "Turn off the lights" and it turns off my RadioRA2 lights.  I've also recently integrated a Hubitat as well, along...

Looks to be resolved now.

RAL - you may be more familiar than me... I know W10 couldn't connect to the XEP due to the SSL changes, but I thought it was fine with W7?  Or did W7 get an update that killed it off too? 

Can you set your IP address manually to something on 192.168.0.x and see if you can reach it at the above IP?   I think it defaults to that subnet if DHCP isn't working.  Is your XEP set on DHCP?  Maybe just a reboot of the XEP will help; maybe it lost connectivity.   Have you used this W7 VM to...

I would agree that a low voltage cutoff seems to be necessary; and given how CA has been lately, maybe adding in a solar panel to keep that battery charged!

My understanding is that the Ring 2 also has a much better motion detector... and with Ring 1, you take the whole thing down to bring it in and charge it (or maybe you can just hang battery pack from the bottom?) - whereas with the Ring 2, there's a good sized battery you can just swap out.  I...

Hi Linwood,   With voip.ms, you really just pay for the DID - either for per minute or unlimited usage.  If you do the unlimited, it's around $5/month.  I have a bunch of lines and don't use any of them much, so I keep them all on per minute and pay the negligible fee.  If you have a number come...

I'm a little late to the game, but here's another vote for Voip.ms.  I have a bunch of lines and accounts through them (I used them at work sometimes too for a temporary connection) - and I've done it both ways, with a local PBX, or using them as the PBX - both work great.  You can set up...

I think the whole Lutron vs. other technologies was covered pretty well and I'm a bit late to the game - but I figured I'd throw in my $.02.  I sold my house last year which was all done with UPB, and quickly remembered that most people aren't very tech or electrical savvy.  Even though my buyer...

Also worth noting - leave it to my 4yr old to discover that off/on/off/on will reset back to white at full brightness.  I use Hue's for all my kids' bedside lights so they can pick colors and brightness.

I just came across those RockPi64's - I think I'll be picking one up... I just ordered a 55" TV to hang in a common area to serve as a digital picture frame and family calendar and I'd like it to run in full 4K.  Any gotchas with it?

Precisely why I can't break the habit of buying the DVD packs.  I had a CD I bought on iTunes a while back just disappear - which was quite unfortunate, since it's one I use to fall asleep to nearly daily - but one day, it was just no longer in my library despite me paying for it.  It's probably...

I have Blu-Ray players upstairs and down - and whenever a collectible movie comes out (think Disney-type stuff), we buy the 3 disc set so that I know I have absolute control over it - but to be honest, all I do is sit down with the digital code, enter it into iTunes or Movies Anywhere, then...

I think a lot of the solutions will be one-off, meaning you're using a module per zone - so you could easily have 8-16 modules in one place.  This isn't z-wave and requires a hub like smarthings or hubitat, but this solution is designed to convert an old alarm panel to something modern...

I won't claim to know all the new consumer stuff that keeps coming out, but I'm not aware of anything that's both a smart switch AND a motion sensor... I think you'd need to combine two parts to accomplish that - a wall switch combined with a separate motion sensor.  The good thing is, the...

Sorry - I was posting from my phone; I hadn't looked up the keypad specs - I just assumed the Iris one was Z-Wave since I knew it worked with Iris and SmartThings.

Elk is a good system, but eKeypad doesn’t have any way to trigger a push notification last I saw (I sold my house with the Elk a year and a half ago). You could work around that by having the Elk send an email to your phone’s text message address - or might be able to figure out another...

If you can fine one of the Iris ones, they look to be pretty configurable - I haven’t personally used one, but saw a video demonstrating one and I was impressed by how much you could program it to do.

I have two of the Windsor Sensor S12s - these are the commercial vacuums you see in basically every hotel, hospital, and fortune 100 company. They use bags and are HEPA certified. Every part is serviceable - you can even replace the power cord in about 10 seconds if your wife refuses to learn...

I'm probably going to try the Hubitat soon... I don't have a ton of Z-Wave, but what I do have is locks and water sensors - two mission critical things to me that I don't want accessible from the outside... and I'm starting a RRa2 install, which it also supports.  I won't run my house off the...