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Way back in 2007/2008 I did a HA system that integrated UPB, CADDX, Temperature Measurement, Sensors on every door and every window, power monitoring all with a hacked  interface to  my blackberry.  Cocoontech saved me many times! I have a new house and would like to restart using current...

I have a buddy with a Restaurant and he wants to setup a TV that plays a bunch of surf movies all day while people are waiting or dining. Ideally accessing the movies off of a thumb drive would be best. My sagetv unit would work perfectly, but it appears that these aren't really available with...

I got my usocket last week after ordering (and paying for it on March 4th). I called last Monday and they said it would ship the next day. A bit suspicious but it wasn't killing me. It arrived on Friday. The kit is well thought out and the instructions are clear, showing how to hook it up...

This is for an application where there is no access to an alarm system or other HA controller hardware. I need an 'alarm' that will go off if a door is open for more than a minute or two. It needs to be something I can buy off the shelf and 'attach' to a door. Is there such a beast?

I just got one of these from a friend of mine: http://www.mysticengineering.com/atx.adapter/index.html It's a nice breakout board for using a PC power supply for a bench top supply. There are others out there (that he references on his page, he's an engineer not a salesman) but his has fuses...

I'm stumped, I've tried various trials and free/shareware and still can't accomplish this simple task: Rip a bluray disc to my harddrive and transcode so the movie is a single file. I have backed up my DVD's (those the kid's haven't trashed that is) so they reside on my server such that sage...

I have been looking at bluetooth tracking and wondering if it really does work. All of my family's cell phones now have bluetooth capability and I've verified that I can see them from my PC but I wonder if in practice it actually works for any but the most subtle HA tasks. Bluetooth just can't...

Last night we discovered that one of our hose bibs had frozen and we had a flood in one of our rooms. We didn't discover it soon enough because the water was under a couch in our play room and we were on vacation by dumb luck. I wonder if on we shouldn't be recommending water sensors under...

I am going on vacation for a couple of weeks and want to have some movies for the kids to watch. I've already ripped them and have verified that I can watch them using mplayer. I need something a bit more user friendly though. I have no problem spending a few bucks if watching the ripped dvd...

I have a friend who asked about backing up their laptop since they have valuable images and music and other stuff. I'm not too well versed in what is available in terms of a one stop solution. Ideally it would work like Time Machine on a mac where they just plug in the drive and it does a full...

I'm new to any of the MS server products so this might be obvious but I couldn't find the right search in google to figure this out. I have 2 NIC's in my server. Everything seems to work just fine. Then I figure out that an old piece of hardware/software really wants the server's first...

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I'm looking to get a cheap machine to put WHS on. I've found a couple of cheap machines I can get off of craigslist. I'm planning on putting new drives in and I don't care about video. I found a nice deal on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with sata as well as various desktop options. The 860 comes in...

I"m looking at installing WHS on top of my windows XP SP3 home automation box. It really 'seems' to do many of the things that I'm interested in. I wonder how reliable it is to install on top of XP. The last thing I want to do is rebuild that machine (yes I have backups). Any words of wisdom...

In the last 2 years I've had 2 EtherFast 10/100 16port switches die on me, as in gone completely black, no power LED or connection LED's. My media room is warm but not hot, and the cabinet where the switch is installed is almost always open. I've had other linksys hardware that just seems to...

I have a couple of SGI EL-16 terminal servers (they are rebranded digi etherlite16's) and I have had nothing but problems getting them configured under windows XP SP3. I have found what I think are the correct drivers but still no luck. I don't think it is a hardware problem since both devices...

So I'm interested in setting up sageTV in our house to 'simplify' things a bit. It looks like SageTV is going to do what I need but I can't completely understand what I need to buy. Why there isn't a block diagram somewhere beats me... I would like to have two (someday 3) locations in our...

I have a pretty simple Russound 44 system. It arrived DOA (bad power switch). It took about 3 weeks to fix. Now about 18 months later I powered it down for maybe the first time in a year and the darn thing is dead. Am I just unlucky or is there hardware sort of flaky?

I've been working nights lately getting this 1240 integrated at the house and finally have it round-tripping from the energy monitor to an rrdtool generated image on a web page. (For those that are interested I also have data from my HomeVision system pumping data into rrdtool) A little more...

After reading AnthonyZ's posts on another thread (ref?) and with all of the people here starting to get energy monitors, it seems like it makes sense to have people take a look at the quiescent energy draw of their systems. The basic energy suckers are probably: 1) Automated light switches 2)...