Hello all;
First a little background: I approached this and the CQC board about a year ago as green as tomatoes. With advice and a pretty strong autodidact sense
about me, I have been working with the ELK M1G and have developed some pretty elaborate rules and interfaces to Insteon as well as the TS07. Actually, I have the TS07 scrolling through WWW Web Cams on a regular basis including weather. I have also successfully installed a Whole House Audio (Nuvo Grand) and completed a very impressive central wiring closet (everything labels and segment by transport type). I have also moved all equipment
to this closet (which is cooled via a wine cooler air conditioner) and am delivering HDTV in component form over 3 RG6 strands to all rooms.
With that said, I consider myself pretty up to date.
However, I am now ready to replace the currently installed security system with the ELK M1 Gold. This way I can leverage all the existing contact points. The programs I have done thus far has been using the supplied ELK 220 Ohm EOLs to simulate contact open/closes.
My question:
Looking at the pre-installed security panel, I have no idea how to migrate from the existing to my M1G. I thought it would be a matter of toning out the contacts to the control panel in the closet. However, it appears (that like the ELK), once the contact are connected to the controller, they form a closed system and you cannot tone out to a single contact pair. I thought about disconnecting what appears to be a pair, attaching the tone source and running throughout the house to find the contact.
Also, these wires appear to have resistors on them and not just wires terminating from the entry point contacts.
Any experiences, guidance, help on this would be helpful.
I have provided photos of the current security system (which by the way was never activated). My home has:
- Door / Window contact points
- Smoke Alarms
- Wireless Glass Break Sensors in the ceiling
Thanks Guys.
- Ed
First a little background: I approached this and the CQC board about a year ago as green as tomatoes. With advice and a pretty strong autodidact sense
about me, I have been working with the ELK M1G and have developed some pretty elaborate rules and interfaces to Insteon as well as the TS07. Actually, I have the TS07 scrolling through WWW Web Cams on a regular basis including weather. I have also successfully installed a Whole House Audio (Nuvo Grand) and completed a very impressive central wiring closet (everything labels and segment by transport type). I have also moved all equipment
to this closet (which is cooled via a wine cooler air conditioner) and am delivering HDTV in component form over 3 RG6 strands to all rooms.
With that said, I consider myself pretty up to date.
However, I am now ready to replace the currently installed security system with the ELK M1 Gold. This way I can leverage all the existing contact points. The programs I have done thus far has been using the supplied ELK 220 Ohm EOLs to simulate contact open/closes.
My question:
Looking at the pre-installed security panel, I have no idea how to migrate from the existing to my M1G. I thought it would be a matter of toning out the contacts to the control panel in the closet. However, it appears (that like the ELK), once the contact are connected to the controller, they form a closed system and you cannot tone out to a single contact pair. I thought about disconnecting what appears to be a pair, attaching the tone source and running throughout the house to find the contact.
Also, these wires appear to have resistors on them and not just wires terminating from the entry point contacts.
Any experiences, guidance, help on this would be helpful.
I have provided photos of the current security system (which by the way was never activated). My home has:
- Door / Window contact points
- Smoke Alarms
- Wireless Glass Break Sensors in the ceiling
Thanks Guys.
- Ed