In attempt to catch the mailbox smashing hooligans that were driving me crazy I became infatuated with everything home automated.
I prefer to stick to linux purely because of
a) I know it's stable and 99% runtime is easily achievable
I can easily customize it to do anything I like.
For my CCTV system I have chosen zoneminder and an 8 input video input card from blue cherry running on Ubuntu linux. I have one camera going by the road for the mailbox vandals and will be mounting 2 in my barn for monitoring horses. But I will have the option to expand later.
I will use a few x10 devices for light control, etc... because I'm cheap and don't want to do extensive rewiring. I don't trust wireless and my house and property are too spread out anyways.
The central server location will be in my house. I would like to add an Elk M1 system for security and perhaps to handle some of the automation.
That said, the camera in the barn is about 300' from my house and the camera at the road is 300' in the opposite direction.
For these cameras I plan on running video baluns as it seems like the most economical solution for that distance.
Here is where the automation kicks in. I want to change the locks on the house to keypad entry. Nothing fancy, something similar to the ones you get at home depot. I know I can tap into these to send a lock/unlock signal quite easy.
What I'm not sure how to do, is the next part. I have a front gate with an opener and closer. I want to put a keypad at the gate, so when someone enters a pin number it sends it to the ELK/Computer, checks against the code and then executes a script. If the pin number belongs to the barn staff, it opens the gate, logs the time and makes an announcement. If the pin number belongs to me or my wife it opens the gate and sends the unlock command to the house door locks, unarms the Elk, etc... all before you get to the house.
My question is this, what keypad do I choose for the road that can send a signal to the misterhouse or elk and what should I use to send that signal? Is there an X10 device? Perhaps a keypad over ethernet device, or even a compatible outdoor keypad for the elk system.
I can use the Elk or Misterhouse to sort the scripts. Whether it be Misterhouse telling elk to disarm, or Elk telling mr house to send signal to unlock the doors. I just can't seem to find the keypad hardware for what I want to do.
Programming isn't a serious issue, but I can't seem to find the hardware.
Cliffs:
1) I'm setting up my smarthome with misterhouse, zoneminder, Elk
2) I need a keypad at the gate which checks the pin with the Elk/Misterhouse and issues scripts
3) the scripts unlock the house, disarm everything before you get to the house
4) what hardware do I use?
I prefer to stick to linux purely because of
a) I know it's stable and 99% runtime is easily achievable
I can easily customize it to do anything I like.For my CCTV system I have chosen zoneminder and an 8 input video input card from blue cherry running on Ubuntu linux. I have one camera going by the road for the mailbox vandals and will be mounting 2 in my barn for monitoring horses. But I will have the option to expand later.
I will use a few x10 devices for light control, etc... because I'm cheap and don't want to do extensive rewiring. I don't trust wireless and my house and property are too spread out anyways.
The central server location will be in my house. I would like to add an Elk M1 system for security and perhaps to handle some of the automation.
That said, the camera in the barn is about 300' from my house and the camera at the road is 300' in the opposite direction.
For these cameras I plan on running video baluns as it seems like the most economical solution for that distance.
Here is where the automation kicks in. I want to change the locks on the house to keypad entry. Nothing fancy, something similar to the ones you get at home depot. I know I can tap into these to send a lock/unlock signal quite easy.
What I'm not sure how to do, is the next part. I have a front gate with an opener and closer. I want to put a keypad at the gate, so when someone enters a pin number it sends it to the ELK/Computer, checks against the code and then executes a script. If the pin number belongs to the barn staff, it opens the gate, logs the time and makes an announcement. If the pin number belongs to me or my wife it opens the gate and sends the unlock command to the house door locks, unarms the Elk, etc... all before you get to the house.
My question is this, what keypad do I choose for the road that can send a signal to the misterhouse or elk and what should I use to send that signal? Is there an X10 device? Perhaps a keypad over ethernet device, or even a compatible outdoor keypad for the elk system.
I can use the Elk or Misterhouse to sort the scripts. Whether it be Misterhouse telling elk to disarm, or Elk telling mr house to send signal to unlock the doors. I just can't seem to find the keypad hardware for what I want to do.
Programming isn't a serious issue, but I can't seem to find the hardware.
Cliffs:
1) I'm setting up my smarthome with misterhouse, zoneminder, Elk
2) I need a keypad at the gate which checks the pin with the Elk/Misterhouse and issues scripts
3) the scripts unlock the house, disarm everything before you get to the house
4) what hardware do I use?
