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The hose bib is on the outside of the house of course but the pipe broke in the wall and flooded the room on the other side. I'm going to look at doing some sensors in the wall. Thanks for the ideas. I didn't know zwave had all of those sensing options.

Last night we discovered that one of our hose bibs had frozen and we had a flood in one of our rooms. We didn't discover it soon enough because the water was under a couch in our play room and we were on vacation by dumb luck. I wonder if on we shouldn't be recommending water sensors under...

As mentioned above running data is a slam dunk. Running DC power you need to be careful. Cat5 tends to be very small guage and will likely have problems if you are trying to run things that need high power like camera's with IR LED's. You can gang multiple wires together to increase the...

If you have the network ID and password you could see and control his lights with various caveats about being on the same transformer, line noise and signal strength. Odds are that you could if you are in an urban/suburban area.

While the website does suck, their product does not. The product works exactly as expected and has run absolutely flawlessly since I got it early last year. It is a quality product. Don't let the website delay you.

Out of curiosity could you explain why UPB won't work?

No one took the bait on the "Java is Crap" line because everyone agrees with you. I run XP, Win7, WHS, OSX and get work done with all of them. Managed to completely skip Vista. I traveled over xmas and used my mac book the most. You know why? Because the darn thing wakes up and actually...

Here is a picture that might help understand what I did. I couldn't find a picture when I had the trim removed. The trim that covers the linkage could easily be pulled off by hand, I had to pull harder than I thought but once the contractor showed me how hard I could pull I wasn't so worried...

If I get sage tv and install it on my laptop for my trip, will it be a pain to move it over (license wise) to my WHS machine? I'll have a look at VLC as that might be a good interim solution.

I am going on vacation for a couple of weeks and want to have some movies for the kids to watch. I've already ripped them and have verified that I can watch them using mplayer. I need something a bit more user friendly though. I have no problem spending a few bucks if watching the ripped dvd...

It can't be done they way you want. UPB can't do different links for single/double tap. I really want that capability for similar reasons, how about all of the switches in a room working 'normally' but double tap turns all the lights in a room off/on. There are a bunch of little things like...

I thought we had cheap power in Seattle but .02/kWhr is pretty amazing. Wish I could sign up for that!

That is a loaded question. There are two main ways to do it. You can by a step-up transformer to take the wall voltage up to 240 so your gear is happy OR you can remove/bypass the power supply inside the box and replace it with one that accepts 110. Step up transformers look like this...

I had easy access during the construction phase and I wired everything I could including the upstairs. The low voltage inspector told me that he had never seen the upstairs windows wired. I told that I might have teenagers that I'm are trying to keep in :)

I'm not sure there is anybody here who is running security in a PC based system. Certainly you could do it with a ton of digital I/O, but it would never compete on price and keypads would be expensive and odd. I do think PC's are more reliable that they get credit for especially if they have...

You're right, I said powerline when I really meant not-hardwired. Thanks for the correction. Especially on this thread where I was trying to reduce confusion!

How big is your floor? we have about 40 ft^2 in our bathroom and it draws about 300W.

I remember when I was where you are at. I felt like I couldn't get my arms around anything. I was upset that I coun't use an elk keypad on my CADDX security, is it really true that a security zone only has one sensor, how much does this stuff cost, how does a UPB slave switch work, what is...

I read those reviews also and they led me to search the web for other reviews. I found many and Acronis has a very good name. I am deeply suspicious that the reviews on Amazon are spammed. I looked at the 1 star reviews and they were mostly single reviews while the positive reviewers had...

It looks like the 'one touch' does file based backups not image based backups. Thanks for the tip on Acronis off of Amazon, that is going to be my recommendation.