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Hi All, So there was a thread about this a while back - I kinda want to revive the topic. I'm sure there are some interesting devices out there, but I get pretty random search results and want to know if anyone has seen or has any experience with a particular device that seems good. What I'm...

Hey guys, I'm actually an Elk user and happy mostly, but plan to move houses soon - when I do, I'll take the elk along, but I won't be getting POTS any longer. I'm tightening the belt across the board and I'm done paying $45/month for a POTS line that receives 3 phone calls/month and keeps the...

Hey Guys, So - I was over at someone's house today - and the wife made a comment about how annoying it is that their garage door openers don't work (this came up after I mentioned that I can open my garage doors with my iPhone through eKeypad). These are totally non-technical people - so I...

My wife works nights - only about 10 days/month though, and they're pretty random. It just so happened that she's working this weekend, and for some reason, today lots of people were bothering us - phones ringing, two different people came to the door (I have a big No Soliciting sign that gets...

Ok... Probably a question for Spanky, but I'd love to hear from others if they share my sentiment... We've found that, even with the keypad beep volume set to 1, the beeps during arming, disarming, etc., are still about twice as loud as I think we like them. We tend to arm/disarm late at...

OK - I'm on a roll getting my house switched over to UPB; it's like an addiction now. Here's the challenge that I was hoping to accomplish before I had any real-world experience with upstart, and I wanna know if anyone has any creative ideas to accomplish this or insight into upstart that I...

I'll apologize in advance - this is long reading. Hopefully it won't turn you off. Intro: OK - I finally took the plunge and installed a couple UPB switches I bought over a year ago. I was a little scared of them given my past with X10 and my "noisy" houses. I've been wanting to go all out...

Hey Guys, I need a recommendation for better pet-immune motions detectors. Currently I'm using the Rokonet 80lb pet-immune dual technology detectors... I really expected them to handle my two cats just fine. Well - I've had them in for a good year or so and I've had about 10 false alarms -...

OK - here's another question to one I've been thinking about lately... I know they have the cell-adapters that hook into the panel to serve as a backup... but that's more in the panel, etc... Has anyone tried using a broadband router that'll do a cellular backup with a 3G card or otherwise...

Hey Spanky... I'm creating a separate post to hopefully get your attention... this is related to some topics discussed in this thread: http://www.cocoontech.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13462 Several of us use a Quiet Mode feature to disable chimes. In my case, I have a Quiet Mode button...

OK Guys - I got an interesting one for ya... I haven't personally had this happen to me yet - but twice now it's happened to my wife, which she's definitely not fond of... I guess at least twice now when she's come in the door, while the exit timer was running, when she went to enter her...

OK - I've seen some creative uses of computer power supplies, 12V power distribution systems, etc... I kinda wanted to get a discussion going about low-voltage power distribution... How many of you have a corner of your livingroom or entertainment center or office or garage that's filled with...

I looked everywhere, and I can't figure out where to do this... I want to kill the sound on ElkRM without turning off the system volume. We use the same computer for the baby-cam, so it needs sound - but every time we open a door, the chime on the thing is ridiculously loud. Is there an...

So, this was kinda fun... I used Halloween as my motivator to finally get around to hooking up the Elk124 so I could do a custom doorbell sound and custom door-opening/closing sounds... It worked pretty well... Seems I'm the only fool who bought the computer interface - everyone else is...

OK - not sure if others have had this issue, but I threw this together in about 3 minutes last night, and was happy with the results I acheived. Since installing the M1, there's always mornings or nights when someone wants to arm or disarm the system, or go to the garage without making a lot of...

OK - if this were for me, I'd spend weeks/months agonizing over the best solution - but I can't, as I'm just trying to help someone else out... So, I'm hoping a few quick suggestions and a few hours of research can help me point her towards some options... A friend has 7 acres, on which she...

I think my title says it all... I want to lose the actual doorbell on the wall and use the M1 instead - I'm even rigging up the Elk124 so I can do my own custom sounds, etc... Originally, I was going to lose the light on the doorbell and just hook the button to a zone, but when I put the new...

All, so, I think I'm suffering a little from Information Overload... reading through pages and pages and pages of the forums, I thought I had a clear picture of the technologies, and a few months ago, even before installing my M1, I chose UPB as my protocol of choice... but now I have a couple...

So, WAF in my house has nothing to do with security - she's scared to death of alarm systems for whatever reason... but things that help protect the family win big points. The first thing we turned on was the door chime on all door and window zones (also better than a walk test - we're always...

As the subject kinda says... I'm looking to see if Spanky might be able to let us know if any new cameras are being added to the compatibility list for ElkRMS that's soon to release. I need to buy one for the baby and possibly a few for around the house, but I'd prefer to keep them compatible...