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The current location doesn't provide as much 'stealth' as I'd like I do like the idea of having a USB or other external drive and mirroring the video info to that disk . The main thing I was looking for is not an armord case so much as just a way to secure my case to a wall or floor. Even...

Thats like asking why do you want a wood/metal front door instead of paper. :o It is hidden, but thats not the point. I'm looking for more security. Doesn't matter where or how something is hidden, it can be found. I want a way to make it at least somewhat difficult for them if they do find it...

It's all set. Convinced her to take my VCR and a Harmony remote. Cost me a few things at Victoria's secret but oh well. At least now I have a good VCR at her place :)

Finally got my cameras setup and now realize it would be a good idea to protect the PC/DVR. Can anyone suggest a strong enclosure for a mid-tower PC? I'd like to mount it to wall studs and for it to have some ventilation outputs as well.

Sounds like just what she wants. i wasn't sure if the 'digital' signal would pass through the VCR but will try it out. Personally, it seems odd for her to have a nice new LCD high-def TV and be watching an old-time VCR on it. She won't let me give her my unused JVC S-Video VCR so that she can...

I helped my girlfriend buy a new TV. She has some older equipment so her DVD player uses composite video. Her VCR only has a F connecter/coax output. And she has her digital antenna plugged in to the antenna input on the new TV. The problem is that I don't know how to hook up both the VCR and...

Perfect. Thanks Spanky! I had seen that along with the other Elk expanders but did not realize that it was on the 4 wire bus unlike the others. Now I just need to find a good deal on one.

Is there any way to hook up some relays for the ELK but to have them in a different location? I want to put in 3-6 relays downstairs but my elk is upstairs. I don't really want to run 3-6 more wires down the conduit since it's already pretty packed. I do have a M1DBH already downstairs and was...

Can you provide more info on support for non-IP cameras? I have a geovision setup and it would be nice to be able to view it on my iPhone. Is that possible?

Turns out this was due to my removal of a Sonos machine. Apparently my Sonos units were acting as a net bridge. I have no idea why this happening b/c I didn't think the Sonos would do that. When I took the one unit out it was the one that had been hardwired in, so I lost net. I already had a...

Looks to be a bigger problem. None of my networked devices on the 2nd floor are working corectly. All my Sonos units are offline as well. My one PC up there works fine though so not sure what is going on.

Somehow I've now lost the network connection for my Elk. It has been working fine for a long time but now neither CQC nor the ElkRP can connect to it. I've power cycled both the Elk and the M1EXP but no luck. Any ideas/suggestions on what else to do to get this working again?

yup, I have no plans of automating the lowering of it. I just want to make sure that if someone else decides to lower it that (1) I'm made aware of that and (2) it doesn't happen when the alarm is armed. I like the idea of the contactor switch controlled by the ELK and with a full enclosure...

OK, i"m not totally sure on the best way to do this so I figured people here could help. Here's the situation : I have a car lift that I want to have secured. I'd like to have it setup so that a PIN is required before the lift can be lowered, so I'm open to ideas on that. outside of that, I'm...

I just realized that this is no longer working for me. I am pretty sure that NextAlarm used to show me when someone would arm/disarm the system but looking at it now I only see alarm events. What do I need to set on the ELK so that it notifies/logs NextAlarm when someone arms/disarms the...

I think I may be a lot like you then :( I ordered my ABN last night so we'll see how smart I can be on Wed night.

I may be stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid b/c I can't quite understand this one :( Do you mean that you just unplugged the cables going in to the phone connection on the ELK? (going off to find the ABN manual to see for myself, been tempted to get one of these...)

I'm guessing the lack of replies means 'No', but figured I'd bring this back up just in hopes of saving some wiring & time.

Dooger, the only thing to worry about with CQC is that it can do so much. I got it to just handle some basic things and it went great for that. But, knowing that it could do so much more, and reading about what others are doing with it, I just can't stop adding stuff on :) At first it was just...

I have my GC upstairs in my house but I need to have 3-4 keypads downstairs. Instead of taking up more space in the conduit running from attic to crawlspace by running 4 Cat5s, is there a way to just run a single cat5? Seems like since the keypads have an address that it may be possible to...