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Have you ever dealt with thebestguard.com? They're in Davie or Hollywood and seem to have a huge selection with good prices. According to the employee I talked to yesterday, they allow pickups. I emailed my shopping list to them & I'm waiting to hear back (I should probably give them a call just...

My M1G is going to be located about 60 feet away from my desktop PC (~5 feet down, ~30 feet behind the baseboard, ~12 feet up to the next floor, and about 10 feet over to my PC). If I make a ghetto 60' null modem cable by using two pairs in a cat5e cable to carry TX to RX, and the other two...

Is there any way to adjust the siren volume of the M1GSYS4's bundled speaker and reduce it to roughly the loudness of a ringing phone or doorbell (to avoid pissing off the neighbors while installing and testing the system)?

Well, despite my afternoon+evening of disillusionment, I decided it's still the best system, and went ahead & ordered a M1G last night before going to bed -- skipping wireless entirely for now. I decided that it's not worth spending $160+ for a M1XRF2G just for the sake of one sliding glass...

Maybe, but will it still work 6-18 months from now? Or is Elk going to turn the 548e into a useless doorstop as far as the M1G is concerned? (update) Well, forget about 6 months from now... it looks like they abandoned anyone with a 548e last year. Thank god I found out now. The official...

Do you know of any Dade/Broward/Palm Beach sources for things like contact sensors? I found a bunch of Dade businesses that sell them, but they all look like the kind of places that either won't sell to you unless you're a licensed installer, or won't sell anything less than a complete turnkey...

Sigh. Can I at least feel confident that the DW-319 with a Window Bug attached to one of its spare zones will work with a NX548e and M1Gold today, and keep working after future firmware updates?

If having 48 wireless zones isn't a serious drawback, is there any particular reason to buy an ELK-M1XRF2G instead of a NX-548e and harness? From what I can tell, the M1XRF2G costs about 3 times as much, and is more finicky about the sensors it works with. Is that a pretty accurate assessment...

At the moment, I'm kind of in limbo between my new house (Pembroke Pines) and my old one (Coral Gables). Assuming everything goes according to plan, I'll hopefully be able to spend next weekend installing the Wiretracks & vertical conduit, wiring the alarm, and the rest of the stuff I want to...

Hmmm. OK, I did more research. It looks like when push comes to shove, the only fundamental HARDWARE difference (that can't be overcome with expansion boards) between the two is that the M1G has a flash rom onboard to hold sampled audio data, which it uses to implement verbal menus &...

Would your opinions about the preferability of the M1G over the M1EZ8 change if I mentioned that I *WILL* have the ethernet interface from day one, so I'll be able to access it using Opera Mobile/Pocket IE with my Sprint Touch, and will be able to have it send fake Sprint-SMS via email to me...

I'm getting ready to order my alarm on Monday (hopefully getting it by Friday or the following Monday). So far, the Elk M1EZ8 looks like the clear and obvious choice, mainly because it supports: * input events via open standards like RS-232 and RS-485. I've built more than a few hardware...

Sorry about the newbie question, but what are "B" connectors? Also, how important are the anti-tamper features in a normal residential setting? Can I safely ignore them altogether and run ONLY a pair of wires to each sensor, or will I likely end up seriously regretting it if I don't run 4 wires...

Suppose I have a sliding glass door with the following sensors: 2 magnetic sensors, 1 pair of wires apiece 2 vibration sensors (say, window bugs), 1 pair of wires apiece Now, suppose I want to run the wire pairs inside the wall down to the nearest baseboard, but inside a plate-covered...

This might be a stupid question, but can the M1EZ8 send X10 commands to the powerline "out of the box" (using only the parts that come with the kit that includes the enclosure and keypad), or does it need additional hardware to actually send commands into the powerline? I kind of got the...

Ah, yeah. Great prices, too. And local. Bummer, though that they drop-ship the WireTrack and don't keep it in stock at their warehouse in Ft. Lauderdale, because then I get stuck with the worst of both worlds... Florida sales tax AND shipping charges. I'm going to give them a call about the...

Good point. I hadn't thought of that. I looked at drywall patches a while ago at Lowe's, but I'm going to have to find something a wee bit more cost-effective than buying 16 6x6" patches for each of the 4 vertical channels... at ~$8/ea, that would get expensive pretty fast :huh: I saw...

Does anybody know of a web store that sells plastic rectangular conduit that's a hair less than a half inch deep (let's say 1cm) and 1-2 inches wide (let's say 2-5cm)? Kind of like this: My problem: my new townhouse is solid concrete. Literally... walls, roof, and suspended slab for the...

There's no shipping or officially-announced product that I'm aware of to do it, but I'll be absolutely SHOCKED if SOMEBODY doesn't make a device that can take 480i video as input, and modulate it to something a TV with ATSC-compatible tuner can handle within the next 3-5 years. If you're...

I know A-Bus sends the audio and amp power down the cat5, but does anyone know the gritty details that go on "behind the scenes"? From what I've gathered, it's entirely analog, and intentionally designed to be as "low-tech" as possible to keep the cost down. I'm guessing, but with 4 pairs of...