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Has anybody tried running wire behind builders' grade melamine cabinets from the early 80s? What did you find behind them space-wise? Did they have an indented toe-kick creating an empty space suitable for conduit/cables? Or did the backs go straight down all the way to the floor, making it...

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)?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...