So I setup the w800 with my elk. Love the ability to control through palmpad etc (no pc) but that is not why i set this up.
I mainly set it up as I have 2 DS10a (S1 and S2) connected to my garage door and wanted to announce every time garage door was open, was opening or was closed. Elk does not have opening or closing pharese in its audio vocablary so had to use entering just to see if it works.
S1 is off (magnets togehter) when the garage door is closed and on when the garage door is open.
S2 is ON when the garage door is closed and on when the garage door is open.
BOth are on when the gar door is somehwere in the middle, opening or closing.
I used the w800 and set it up using electrons post. I assigned G1 to first sensor and G2 to second sensor. Setup some rules by changing the status of (G1 G2 lighting) and it worked well.
Findings:
Here were the issues. My son walked over and pressed G1 off and guess what, I got the Garage door closed announced. Hum so I then went back and assinged 3 devices (lighting) from different house codes to avoid that problem. I also had to update all the rules etc. Very tedious and time consuming. I could have done 2.
The reason why I wanted to setup standard x10 devices were so that I could update these and see it on my homeseer pc (also did not know any other way yo get this done). I am sure that I am doing this backwards but the reason was latelty my pc hangs and my wife has no clue if our autistic son opened the garage and went out to play if she is in a different part of the house.
So:
1. There has to be a better way of doing this.
2. How can this be incorporated in the security aspect of ELK.
3. Also getting status other than announcements and text to keypad needs to be done but could not figure out how without using homeseer and standard x10 devices from lighting.
The concern is that anyone can take a remote and send x10 commands. What if someone sends on on all housecodes etc.
I have a lot of money invested in x10 motion sensors and DS10a so want to use them.
regards.
I mainly set it up as I have 2 DS10a (S1 and S2) connected to my garage door and wanted to announce every time garage door was open, was opening or was closed. Elk does not have opening or closing pharese in its audio vocablary so had to use entering just to see if it works.
S1 is off (magnets togehter) when the garage door is closed and on when the garage door is open.
S2 is ON when the garage door is closed and on when the garage door is open.
BOth are on when the gar door is somehwere in the middle, opening or closing.
I used the w800 and set it up using electrons post. I assigned G1 to first sensor and G2 to second sensor. Setup some rules by changing the status of (G1 G2 lighting) and it worked well.
Findings:
Here were the issues. My son walked over and pressed G1 off and guess what, I got the Garage door closed announced. Hum so I then went back and assinged 3 devices (lighting) from different house codes to avoid that problem. I also had to update all the rules etc. Very tedious and time consuming. I could have done 2.
The reason why I wanted to setup standard x10 devices were so that I could update these and see it on my homeseer pc (also did not know any other way yo get this done). I am sure that I am doing this backwards but the reason was latelty my pc hangs and my wife has no clue if our autistic son opened the garage and went out to play if she is in a different part of the house.
So:
1. There has to be a better way of doing this.
2. How can this be incorporated in the security aspect of ELK.
3. Also getting status other than announcements and text to keypad needs to be done but could not figure out how without using homeseer and standard x10 devices from lighting.
The concern is that anyone can take a remote and send x10 commands. What if someone sends on on all housecodes etc.
I have a lot of money invested in x10 motion sensors and DS10a so want to use them.
regards.