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I pre-wired for audio in our dining room. The table is the standard long rectangular variety. I set it up so I could place the speakers anywehre from the center of the table all the way to the wall (with windows). Were should the speakers be placed for ambient music? Over the table seems to...

We are one of the families with no TV... at least only a TV for videos. Well for xmas we (I) broke down and got a Wii so now I'm trying to get it all easy to run with our Harmony 880 remote. Everything would work great IF I could select the output from our VCR. Problem is the only IR code is...

I just got home and many of the lights in the house are randomly going on and off, dimming... Very low WAF right now. I've checked noise and I don't see a problem. Any thoughts on this????? This is the first UPB problem that isn't my fault.... Help

Thus far in my HA odyssey my wife was been a disinterested (if not distrusting) observer of my antics. For the most part she tolerates it. Once she actually said she liked the 'all off' switch by the front door. The programmed thermostat makes her cold at night, she hates the UPB delay and...

I have one of those Mercury Vapor lights in our drive way that runs off of a light sensor. I set it up to run off of a spare inline UPB dimmer module that I had so I could have it run only until midnight instead of all night. I set it up to be on/off instead of dimming. It stopped working...

Well we've been in the house over a year and most of the kinks have been worked out. The wife mentioned the other day that the house seemed cold especially at night. I took a look at the temperature logging and saw that if anything the stat temperature was slightly higher than expected and the...

I have a seized valve under our house that controls an external hose bib. The valve does not turn and I'm not calibrated to how much torque I can put on the thing, but I'm turning pretty darn hard. I've put a bit of WD40 on it and it hasn't helped. Any tricks to try before I call the...

I have been looking on ebay and seeing stuff these ULA bulbs: http://tinyurl.com/5m3j84 the cost is very low. My BS detector is pegged, but there are sellers with 100% ratings selling these things. Do these bulbs work? What does mini mean when referring to CFL bulbs. Is the light OK -- for a...

I have an Axis Video server and would like to dump images to an ftp site every 30 seconds or so. I have the mechanism working and can see files copied from the video server to my machine via FTP. The problem is that if the file already exists filezilla server doesn't allow the transfer to take...

PC Expert Question This is not HA related though I could spin in so it was :rolleyes: At work we have a high end, quad core work station, loaded up with RAM, runing XPSP2. This PC controls a laser scanning system. It really doesn't do much during the scanning process (the heavy lifting...

Might get flogged here but I am one of those guys who doesn't have a TV (don't ask). Wired the house for it... We are actually considering getting the TV's out of the basement and hooking them up. I'm confused about what is happening with the whole analog/digital thing and would like to solve...

I have the baby 4 zone 4 source Russound system and would like to control it via IR commands. It looks like I can do everything I need except control Zones! I downloaded the IR command list from Russound and see that there doesn't appear to be a way to control zones (power on/off/ volume)...

I would like to try to integrate an IM interface into my home automation. I'm OK with writing the code but I haven't found any libraries/ocx/assemblies that will do what I *think* I need to do. I'd like it to work with any one of the major IM systems so I can access it from my blackberry. I'm...

For 8 months I have been happy with the UPB install. But today something strange is going on. I have a play room with 2 240s controlling two sets of lights. The switches each activate the playroom link so both come on from either switch. This has worked very well. So today wife tells me...

I have my irrigation system all scoped out in my head and I have one nagging question. How do I efficiently handle draining the system. As I will almost certainly forget to drain it eventually I thought I could make a low spot in the system and put a valve there and when I want to drain the...

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I have a topology question for setting up irrigation in our various gardens (vegi's, flowers, shrubs). Lets say I get a rain8 and have a bunch of boxes that I want to water independently and they are all in similar proximity (all lined up but 50ft from water supply). I could either: a) run 5...

It is interesting how the lighting has morphed over the last 4 months. My 4yo and 7yo daughters are the power users of UPB and the wife likes it simple. In my kids rooms I have the US130's that have single and double tap settings for the top and bottom rocker. They are setup as follows: 2...

I have a stairwell that is pretty simple, up from the first floor 90degree turn and then up to the top floor. The cieling over the stairs is high, maybe 16 feet. I would like one motion sensor to detect people at the top of the stairs and the bottom to automatically turn on the lights. I'm...

I've been playing around with interior motion sensors and occupancy sensing. The more I think about it the less I want to do it :blink: At first it seems really cool to be able to turn lights on, only at night, when certain motions are detected. That I can do but man does it start to get...