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Long before there was a VRC0P+3, Elk sold a secondary Z-Wave controller that used the RS-485 bus. This controller wasn’t very robust as compared to VRC0P+3, and didn’t have integrated primary controller either.  Elk retired that device ones the first VRC0P was created.   I am not sure I...

I wish Elk would update the M1SXLZW to eliminate the VRC0P+3 and create a fully integrated Z-Wave gateway – similar to UPB version. The M1SXLZW 2.0 would eliminate the triple DTE (RS-485 > RS-232 > RS-232) round trips and high probability of character loss. Also, it would be nice if 2.0 version...

The first question you have to answer is relative size of your house. The second question is how far will each device be from the VRC0P+3 controller. Based on these answers, you will have to plan to add appropriate numbers of slave ZWave devices.   1) Must handle LED bulbs.   All Vizia+ three...

I doubt you would need three Elk RF2EG receivers. One of the benefits of the GE transmitters is they have good TX/RX distance as compared the Elk two-way transmitters. I was able to walk over 150 feet with GE transmitter using a walk test. You can test your current window sensors using the...

A VMS does much more than Hikvision camera recording software. The biggest feature is software can coalesce event and video data across all cameras. If you want to see what happened at 7:59 at your house, you can easily pull the video from all cameras. In addition, smart client viewer can show...

Yes, you can use Milestone Essentials for free, but I believe you will need to reapply for a license once a year (someone will have to confirm).   I had to reassign one of my internal application web servers to a different port, so port 80 could be used by Milestone.  I couldn’t figure out how...

I found the Milestone upgrade offer on web site Limited time offer for Essential customers  Until December 31, 2016, you can upgrade to XProtect Express for free, when you purchase three years opt ‘in of Milestone Care Plus coverage at a 50% discount.

https://www.sighthound.com/products/cloud that’s pretty cool.  There were forum complaints I saw that Hikvision camera’s “motion detection” is not sophisticated. Rain seems to trigger the motion detection. I haven’t gotten far in the creating event rules.   It would be very cool to receive a UPS...

TurboSam, Thanks for posting more detailed MS information. I believe there is a few more weeks to purchase a copy of Essentials. I bought the five year care support package because MS seems committed to bringing new features out.   Was your installation experience as good as mine?   Is there a...

I purchased Milestone XProtect “Essentials” because the cost was slightly cheaper as compared to Express.  I didn’t need support for 48 cameras (Express version). Unfortunately, Milestone is discontinuing the “paid” Essentials license. The Essentials license will become “a free” with NO support...

I wanted to install a home video monitoring system. I have finally go the system together and started bench testing. I thought this post may be helpful for someone looking create small video monitoring system. I purchased the following hardware/software components.   Hikvision 2642 – 4MP camera...

I think the new web site is better too. It's only two clicks to download an installation executable. Add a "Try It" button on upper right corner for the win.   Since Amazon Echo is the new big thing, Web site might want to leverage this buzzword since CQC supports Echo API.   The graphic at...

Why not just keep a spare 12v fully charged battery available - similar to spare battery for cellphone. When you return back home, you would swap out the dead Elk battery with spare. The battery should have enough juice to control the valve.

I would install the Elk 2way receiver first and get it working. You would then add the GE receiver and change the termination as RAL indicated. I reserved 48 zones for the Elk and 16 for GE.

Over a year ago, I switched to Elk Wireless sensors due to false alarms that would occur randomly once a year. Since I switched all my GE window sensors to Elk 2way, the false alarms have disappeared. I personally think the Elk 2way is a better product because of the confirmation function...

Thanks for pointer. This special updater fixed my connection problems. The Elk XEP (http://www.elkproducts.com/m1_downloads.html) doesn't have a reference to this utility.

I double checked to see if there is some TLS specific issue with ElkXEPv2 (maybe my M1XEP firmware become corrupted). I have the next to last v2 firmware (not latest with Windows10 support). I have been using the v2 firmware for quite some time without any problems.     openssl s_client –tls1...

"Thing" THANKS for posting this. I spent about three hours last night rebooting M1XEP, M1+M1XEP, Turning Off Virus Protection, Going to Elk support site, Update lastest ElkRP, and nothing worked. I was just getting ready to trying a use a wife company laptop and spend even more time.   I...

The short answer is yes.   The way that Z-Wave routing works is that slaves/controllers finds neighbor nodes using a broadcast address when either an “inclusion” or “heal” procedure is executed. The controllers know how send a command either directly or indirectly to neighbor node. The slave...

Pete, Do you have a grounding rod (or any type of grounding system) installed near the 6x6 posts to help protect the electronic equipment?