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I have two dogs who spend time in our laundry room when we are not with them. This includes nights when we are in bed. The dogs have a dog door that leads through the laundry room wall to our large backyard. When we are ready to go to bed, it is not always easy to figure out if the dogs are...

I'm hoping someone on this site may already have experience with this issue. I am just starting to use Power Home with a USB-UIRT. The Computer with the USB-UIRT is located in a closet in a different room from the TV. I have a hard wire connected from the back of the USB-UIRT to the IR in on...

Note: I did a search for this topic and didn't find any hits. I apologize in advance if someone has already discussed it. I live in Las Vegas, and just signed up for a program from the power company to replace my standard thermostats with web enabled thermostats for FREE. They will also give...

I happened to be at Disneyland at the soft opening of their new home of the future exhibit. For those of you old enough to remember, this is the old "America Sings" building. It has been a exhibit of products of the future for quite a while, Yesterday was the soft re-opening of this exhibit...

I am new to Premise and thought I would take a look at it. Unfortunately I keep getting an error message that the page can not be displayed. Does this website go up and down?

I have a ELM-M1G connected to a computer via a serial interface. The time keeps rolling out of sync. It is running fast gaining about 1 min per month I did not purchase an ethernet adapter for my ELK. Does anyone have a serial terminal script or a small utility that will check the time on a...

I was surfing the web and came across this article on Home Toys that talks about using a tome generator set to troubleshoot sound and video. I will definately be keeping this one in my bag of tricks. Does anyone else have any unusual tricks the can share? Enjoy, Rod

I am looking into building a pool and I want to use pool controls that will work with Home Automation. It seems like many of the pool builders in my area are pushing Pentair's IntelliTouch system for HA. Currently, I do not have any specific HA system setup other than some basic automation...

This problem occurred during a long project. I will do my best to keep it short and to the point. Background - We moved into a new semi custom home (choose the model of house and pay $ to specify modifications to the original plan) over a year ago. During the build I spent more than most...

I just purchased and installed two of these wall mounted volume controls in separate zones. Unfortunately the included instructions are less than helpful. I have the wires connected correctly but I have no idea on the Impedance switch. There are 4 settings with nothing mentioned in the manual...

Like most people here, I really like the idea of home automation. Also like most, I am on a tight budget. Lucky for me, I like to tinker. Some of the projects found at http://www.instructables.com can be applied to home automation. This digital picture frame is a perfect example...

A friend of mine pointed me to this website http://www.hiddenpassageway.com/ . It has a lot of great ideas on creating hidden rooms and passageways. It looks like they use HA to activate their projects. I can think of a few places in my house where it would be fun to add a hidden bookcase...

This link will give you the information on purchasing the router from Circuit City. http://dealnews.com/deals/Buffalo-Air-Stat...tes/185537.html Some of the most popular routers on the market have their operating system (OS) loaded in NV-RAM. The native OS can be replaced with a different OS...

Hi, I live in a community of 20 houses in Las Vegas. The development has a drive up gate with a call box. I am looking into the possibility of mounting a wireless camera at the security gate to allow all of the homeowners to see the cars at the gate before they are buzzed in to the...

Has anyone had experience cooling down a cabinet filled with home theater equipment? Currently my cabinet only contains: 1 - Dell P4 computer (I use Beyond TV) using TV as the monitor 1 - Scientific Atlantic Cable box for Cox cable 1 - DVD player 1 - VCR I will be adding an Onkyo 703 receiver...

Hopefully some one has does this before. I have a ELK M1G and I am using a Linksys PAP2 to connect to my alarm monitoring company. Currently the PAP 2 is in the same cabinet as the ELK M1G. The PAP2 uses a wall wart converting 120V AC to 5V 2A DC. I am concerned that the PAP2 gets it's...