What do I have to buy to get my elk to make a chime like a door bell from my elk speakers?
I don't want to spend alot of money and I kinda have my elk controlling my door bell via a ds10a but when it decides to just go off by itself at say, 3am, its kinda freaky.
KC in KC
What do I have to buy to get my elk to make a chime like a door bell from my elk speakers?
I don't want to spend alot of money and I kinda have my elk controlling my door bell via a ds10a but when it decides to just go off by itself at say, 3am, its kinda freaky.
KC in KC
Doesn't the Elk have a few locations for recording custom voice responses? You could record a doorbell wav into one of those and have a rule to play it when the doorbell button is pushed. I do this with my Stargate and it is very reliable.
Step 2 is getting the sound into the Elk. The ONLY way to do this is via the phone. Unless you want to add the ELK sound card, find a way to power it, connect relays to your speakers to switch them between the elk and the card. I bought all the parts for this, but decided it was way too complicated for a doorbell, so I stuck with the phone method. If you time it right you can get ok sound through the phone, but it's tricky.
You have several options, it really all depends what will satisfy the inspector. The easiest is as you said, to use the chime. What part about that doesn't satisfy the inspector? You have 6 voice slots you can use for each zone, so maybe for the doors in question you do 3 of the 800Hz tone in a row followed by warning, zone violated? If that satisfies him then all you need to do is programs the voice slots for those zones and put the chime on Voice. If he is looking for more of a loud alarm or a siren, you could hookup a siren or sirens (or piezos, or whatever) and activate them for x seconds when a zone is tripped. Like, WHENEVER Back Door Zone is VIOLATED THEN TURN ON OutputX for Y seconds. That assumes a siren of some sort hooked up to a relay.
I'm sure there are other ideas but like I said, it all depends on what the inspector wants or will be satisfied with.
I am very new to the ELK and was looking thru the manuals and did not find specific instructions on how to get the ELK speakers to speak a particular phrase.
WHENEVER BRN-LEFTWINDOW(ZN 81) BECOMES NOT SECURE
THEN ANNOUNCE BRN-LEFTWINDOW (ZN81)
THEN ANNOUNCE Miscellaneous 1 (VM239)
Step 2 is getting the sound into the Elk. The ONLY way to do this is via the phone. Unless you want to add the ELK sound card, find a way to power it, connect relays to your speakers to switch them between the elk and the card. I bought all the parts for this, but decided it was way too complicated for a doorbell, so I stuck with the phone method. If you time it right you can get ok sound through the phone, but it's tricky.
So you just stood in front of your key pad with your phone and a recording of a doorbell?
Step 2 is getting the sound into the Elk. The ONLY way to do this is via the phone. Unless you want to add the ELK sound card, find a way to power it, connect relays to your speakers to switch them between the elk and the card. I bought all the parts for this, but decided it was way too complicated for a doorbell, so I stuck with the phone method. If you time it right you can get ok sound through the phone, but it's tricky.
So you just stood in front of your key pad with your phone and a recording of a doorbell?
Yep. Phone and laptop. Took several tries to get a reasonable sound. At first I was VERY unhappy with it, but it doesn't sound so bad now, I guess I am used to it. It is really difficult to time right so you don't get static at the beginning.
In my opinion this is the biggest disappointment with the ELK I have found, no line in for recording custom sounds.