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I have a question for the alarm gurus on the board. Last weekend we had some (attempted - I scared them away by turning on the porch lights) vandalism on the wife's car when it was parked in the driveway about 1 am. Teenagers were trying to remove the antenna. Had they broken into the car my...

Just curious what people are doing with eliminating telemarketing and other junk calls. My ducts, my lawn, my windows, my clothes, my carpets ,the circus, my roof, a foghorn and my non-existant fax machine are seemingly making me a prime target. I am getting 5 to 10 calls a day now - this...

Can anyone help animate this water cooler on icon - maybe bubbles or flashes somehow ? Thanks Neil

Here's a question for the computer guru's on the board. I seeing lots of ads for 3 and 4 Gig usb thumb drives nowadays in the $30-$40 range up here and probably cheaper in the States. Can these take the place of IDE hard drives and be used for automation hardware and booting up ? I thinking...

Solar enthusiasts, We went to small ecology type demo day today in town and I was quite impressed with the demo trailer set up for the solarmax sytem. http://www.solarmaxheatinginc.com/doityour.html[B] Basically a couple of solar hot air panels hooked to the south facing roof with some...

Is there such a thing as an LCD or LED display panel (possibly scrolling) that fits in a 5.25" bay or a small external type that would sit on the tv ? I am looking for something to use as a message waiting indicator or a tv show reminder etc. PC is right beside the tv about 8' away. Thanks, Neil

Thanks for the PVR software info guys. I have been waiting for info like this. Now comes the questions. I experimented with two packages - CT-PVR and the GOT-ALL package using the zap2it listings software. These were just picked at random. They both worked and bring up the Canadian Expressvu...

Question for electrical guru's...... I have been using this capacitor as a signal bridge for about 2 years now with no problem. Now I am having signal problems that I didn't have before. It is a .1 micro farad capacitor ( I think that is what it's called) and it says 250v 40/085/21 on it...

hey BSR........ Did you ever get anywhere with the water detector project ? Quoting......from the HomeSeer board.... "Yes correct. With the same reasoning as my post with the 2000 ohm resistor above, the water resistance must be higher than that and thus not work. I was actually looking at...

Electron, Your site is amazing and very informative....gets better every week.............keep up the good work ! Can I pick some brains about a TV/coax question ? I'm no expert on video etc so I could use some help. My SAT and CATV terminate in the basement behind my home theatre(just a...