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I know you said you want the Elk integration - I had that in my last house... but now I use Ecobee and I like it - and I do have remote access...  just sayin', you may not need to stick with Elk integration to keep the ability to turn it on remotely.  I don't pay any monthly fees.

I've had my eye on it... Colorado is strange - even though I'm on a well, I have a set amount of water I'm allowed to use, and there are no provisions for using more - you get your hand slapped by the state and if it goes on long enough, they can cap your well.  I also have low PH water mixed...

I think PCS must've sold their customer database to them, because I get an email advertising those things at least weekly.

I'd take that hot-tub!

This was fixed a couple months ago.  Now you can have one echo device as part of multiple groups.    As mentioned above, you can also pair multiple echo devices as long as they're same make/model/generation.  I got two free Echo Dot Gen3's with my two Ecobee's and set them up in stereo - it...

And of course, Amazon has little interest in making Spotify work better... with Amazon music, you can listen to like 10 streams at once solving the problem, and they're constantly making their own app work more like Spotify - but they have years ahead of them to catch up.

Running up your power bill?  I think that's all their good for.  Anything you'd consider doing on a 10yr old computer could run on a Raspberry Pi now and use a fraction of the power.  It's kinda silly to keep repurposing old hardware just because it's around - it's usually big, loud, and...

Ianbrown - if I were doing my own house, I'd probably do what you are talking about purely out of habit... that said, for this one, I'd recommend the Leviton module... only $20, already bridged in the back, and much cleaner and simpler...

If you're getting down to the wire, you can always have the electrician install $3 cheap switches and go slow with the automation.  I'm just starting a RRA2 install myself - and I'm starting with a bunch of the RRD-6ND switches - and based on how they perform in a handful of areas, I'll keep...

I had some very expensive old digital picture frames - they sold in the ~$1,400 range and had amazing pictures and were framed with really nice custom wood frames - but the PC's bundled with them used a power supply that would fail - so instead of regularly opening them up to replace the power...

ano: agreed - but I'd still want to edit my videos for the best angles before leaking them!

Just curious why you're replacing the Leviton board, and what you desire to accomplish?  That may help with specific recommendations.  Things like the Leviton board are still applicable today and available.  If it's just bad, then something like this to replace it would be simple, cheap and...

I thought this was funny since I'm literally working on two HP Z Workstations now - one is remoted into the other... but I can tell you I've managed to use one of these WAY past what should've been its useful life... I think I bought it in ~2010, and the only reason it's still tolerable is the...

We've been doing the Alexa based whole house audio for the last 8 months, and it's gotten better and better.  In the beginning, it was just one echo connected to a whole-house amp - but since, we've added more, and more speaker grouping.  Places like the Master Bath that doesn't have speakers...

Doorbird is great - I installed one for a high-end client, and was pleasantly surprised.  I later bought a Ring for my house (lack of any existing wiring left me with few choices) and wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be given how mainstream it is.  The client with the Doorbird has his...

I'm one of those to block Windows Updates - only because I want to control when they happen.  I often leave things half-finished and unsaved - and nothing pisses me off more than to see that my system rebooted on its own for an update and I lost everything.  A power outage I can deal with -...

Can you imagine having to change your Wifi password, and having to reconfigure 75 light switches?  Eeek.

I went through this fairly recently.  We had a house that was all automated with cameras, an M1G, UPB and even sprinklers tied into the M1.  In addition, this community supplies internet to the house - the buyer wouldn't be getting their own.  I moved out of state on very short notice, and not...

This is a pretty old thread that was revived... but since it's here, I was looking into this recently - we moved and are starting over... before, everything went through the Elk app, but this time everything we've added so far works with HomeBridge and Alexa.  I am about to start a RadioRA2...

Hi Linwood,   My favorite online retailer has always been HomeControls based out of San Diego, CA.  They had a more robust offering than AO and have been around a lot longer, though I did use AO for a while since they had active members around here that we got to know.  They carry Elk, UPB, etc...