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OK - Looking for some ideas from people who have worked with the Wiegand interface on the M1... I have a receiver that talks Wiegand, so I purchased an M1KAM to hook it to before I read the line in the manual that says you can't program a fob from the KAM - only from a prox reader wired into an...

For anyone who's worked with or looked at Ubiquiti equipment, they're an interesting company... they're very small (80-ish employees I believe) and they don't have any pre-sales support or much for post-sales; they don't employ technical writers, or all the people that help "sell" their...

So I know I need to do a real write-up/tutorial, and I'll get to that as soon as I can... but for the mean time, I wanted to share this. Despite being too tired to keep my head up, I decided to see if I could make ElkRMS run on my macbook. I knew of Wine and WineBottler, but had never once...

OK Guys - I have a question that's beyond my normal are of expertise... I have a large UPB installation - and once in a while I notice changes/additions causing the signal to get weaker. Not bad - honestly my whole system works great and I'd recommend it to anyone - but, where I have my CIM's...

Hey Guys, I'm used to doing my own research and love doing so - but for this one, wanted to get this group's opinion. My next door neighbor loves HA in theory, but hasn't yet started. He wants cameras, integrated security, and automation.... but has nothing today. Also, he's an apple fan...

Hey Gents, I guess I've never done too much of this in the past I guess - but I tried setting up a single rule that would fire multiple lighting events, but it fails miserably turning on only the last light in the rule chain. Doe the elk not have a way to sequence these and send them one at...

Hey guys (and hopefully Spanky), So I just installed my RCS communicating zone controller and tstats (or WDU's) - got it talking to the Elk - all is well there. However - I wanted to try hitting some of the more advanced commands of the controller by sending direct commands over the serial...

Hey all, I want to try something here... I know a lot of people have built some touchscreen interfaces... but for someone who's just starting out, I'd like to see if we can pull together a resource for people to turn to for getting started. I know some of the different software companies have...

Hi, I have a current 2-zone HVAC system that I want to make "controllable" - I used HAI in my last home and I think they're the better looking of the options... I also want to upgrade from a 2-zone to a 3-zone for better temperature balancing and energy efficiency. So far I was thinking my...

Let me start by saying - I hate phones.... I don't want to be on them except when I need to. What's worse? I *really* hate cell phones! Not the technology or even the idea of being reachable - more the fact that quality seems to be getting worse over the years, not better. Home phone lines...

So this is a bit off-topic... but I've seen some woodworking threads in here and this is up that alley... In our new home, there isn't a good place for a trash can. My intent was to convert one of the cupboards into a normal recycling center - 2 35gallon trash cans. In my neck of the woods...

I thought this might be good for a laugh... especially in light of this thread about what to do with your automation when you move. In my last move, I ended up taking my M1 with me and hiding any signs that it ever existed... so I reinstalled it in the new house and I've been slowly hooking...

OK - it's way too late for me to be up working on this, but I got the M1XRF2G installed and I added 3 groups of wireless zones (exp 4,5,6) to leave room for my existing XIN and room to grow. I keep manually enrolling a device at the keypad so I can come back to the PC and see exactly how it...

This is an idle curiosity thread... When you think of the LED lights that are on your light switches, which color do you find most appealing? If you use two colors (green/blue, red/green, etc) then list the one you'd rather see most of the time. And I'm more curious what colors you WANT vs...

Hey All, Just a quick poll here... what's the current preferred method of going cellular-only for alarm monitoring of an M1? Pros/Cons of different options? My current home has no land line and no Vonage - I'm only using Ooma for their $3.50/month basic service. I know I certainly prefer...

Hey guys, This isn't really HA, but it's in the realm of something a lot of us play with. I'm trying to help out someone I know on coming up with a solution... The cliff-notes version of the project is this: We're looking for a solution that'll let this person manage his library of over...

I'll admit - this isn't a terribly well thought out poll - but I'm curious - are people moving to LED now? It certainly is the hot new thing! I keep seeing the LED thread going on here, and wanting to switch - but the price is astronomical! I have so many lightbulbs in this house... some...

So earlier today in the chat, the topic came up of how much power our switches consume. We go into this thinking that by using these switches, the lights will be off more, and the dimmer will save us money, etc. I think people forget that having this little device sitting there listening on...

Hey Guys, I need some tips here... I recently moved into a new 2-story house and I need to get my Elk and all the fun stuff hooked back up (TStats, keypads, etc). I'm great at wiring single story homes and commercial spaces, but I've never done anything with a 2-story home before. In my neck...

Hey all, I'm about to close on a new house - much larger, blah blah blah... room for more kids and all that stuff... I run an M1 today with a few KP2's and hardwired everything; the new house just flat out won't allow for hard-wire, so it'll require wireless; not relevant though, just...