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When the value of a counter is changed via Rules, will the new value be sent via the Reply With Counter Value Format (CV) message? If so, it does not seem to be working. If I send a cv message to change the value I do see the CV message with the new value.

I am in the process of looking for a TOSLink cable to connect my audio server to my living room A/V receiver. The distance will require a cable of 50 feet. Does anyone have any experience using a TOSLink cable to cover this distance? Any recommendations on source for this cable as well...

I have been working on a Elk plug-in for Girder and am now at the stage of incorporating lighting control. After reading through the protocol docs and with my own personal experience of adding rules to the Elk, that determining the proper way to setup a lighting device and the commands to use...

I ran into a problem today with getting the names of the zones thru the serial protocol. I have zones 1-3 & 9 named. When I issue commands to get the names of the zones I get the name for zone 9 when I request the names for zones 4-8. Below is the results from a VB app I put together to test...

For the Send Valid User Number And Invalid User Code (IC) message the manual states: Version 4.3.6 and later, user code 101 = Program Code, 102 = ELK RP Code, 103 = Quick Arm, no code. I am seeing a code of 203. Is this a code not listed or is the manual incorrect? Rick

I have reported this trouble before, but found no solution. I have now spent the past couple of days looking into it more. I use X10 palm pads for various macro related control of devices. More times than not I have problems, devices do not respond, they turn off then on or vice versa, etc...

I recently replaced the mobo in my HA server. Old board was a Soyo new one is Asus. I use SpeedFan to monitor temps and what not. The Soyo board reported the temp of the processor at 35C during idle and the new board reports 50C. It is a Pentium 4 2.0GHz processor. Nothing else has changed...

Whenever I am view the forums and a message contains a thumbnail to a pic and I click on it I get the following show up in a new tab. ÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿàÿØÿà ÿØÿà Looks like FireFox is trying to open the image as a text file. I have...

Now that summer is winding down and my kids are headed back to school, I am now finding the time to get back to more HA related projects. One thing that I would like to do is add motion detectors to my Elk setup. Does anyone have any comments on the following detector? Pet Immune Motion...

I have been seeing some strange things happening with my W800 connected to my Elk. When pressing A7 Off on a palmpad sometimes the device will turn off then turn back on, sometimes the device will not turn off at all. Since I have the Elk connected to Girder I started to monitoring the PLC...

This past weekend I finally shutdown HomeSeer and moved lighting control over to the Elk. So far things are running very well, however I did have a few things that I need some guidance on. 1. I have certain events that happen depending on the day of week, is it possible to setup a rule like...

Found this on the Girder forums this morning. Girder Supports xAP

I am curious has to how the Elk handles reception of signals from the W800. Scenerio 1: If I do not have a X10 device programed in the Elk for address A2 and the Elk receives an A2 ON from the W800 what happens? Does the Elk transmit the received code to the powerline? Will the received...

I am planning on purchasing an Elk security panel in the next few weeks. I have not yet decided if I will get the M1 Gold or the EZ8. I do have a few questions about the hardware required to achieve my ultimate goal. Currently I am using HomeSeer to handle lighting control with X10 devices...

Where can I find a description of differences in the 2 units? Rick

Every so often my router just decides to stop working. Unfortunatly it happens when I am not home to do anything about it. Well today it happened again, early in the morning. Luckily my son was home and could fix it. I thought about plugging it into an applicance module that could then be...

I have uploaded the screenshots to my NetRemote LCARS PPC v2 interafce to the NetRemote and HS boards. Below are the links. HomeSeer Board NetRemote Board Rick

I have a header.asp file located in the root directory of my website. This file contains the title and navigation areas for the site. I call the file from other pages using: <!--#include file="header.asp"--> I have now added a /news directory that runs .asp pages associated with news...

A couple of weeks ago some of my lights quit coming on when HomeSeer sent out the signals. I could still control the lights via a Palm Pad without any problems. I got a X10 signal meter from Automated Outlet and started testing various outlets in the house. 1. First tested the outlet that HS...

Once again, you guys pulled off a great contest. I am not saying that just cuz I won. Thanks for the GC and keep up the great work!!!! HD