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Hey all!  I believe I had lightning strike near my home recently - myself and my neighbor both lost a random assortment of electronics. I'm still trying to sort through what got fried and what was OK, and am struggling with my Elk M1. Immediately after the strike, it complained of an ethernet...

I'm going to purchase some wire for Hunter Douglas Powerview blinds that I have installed in my home to switch from battery to hardwired (power only). HD support gave me the following spreadsheet to calculate the gauge of wires I should be using     My runs won't be any longer than 60 feet, and...

Hey guys - I'm in the process of setting up an Elk m1 at my folks place. I've opted for wireless sensors in a few places that are pretty difficult to get wires to but am struggling to figure out where to place a door sensor to their garage.  There are a couple issues that I'm dealing with here...

Hey guys - I recently came across some free aprilaire thermostat stuff and have decided that it's time to get rid of my unreliable zwave thermostats and integrate my single stage heating/cooling 3 zone setup with my Elk.  Attached is a drawing of my understanding of how my setup will be wired...

Hey guys - I am having some enrollment issues with my new m1xin that I'm attempting to install.  My setup looks like this at the moment: 1 m1dbh that has feeds for - m1kp2 at address 1 - m1kp2 at address 2 - p212s at address 3 - m1kp at address 4 - m1xin at address 5 (dip switches set to on...

Hey all - tried searching for this, but came up mostly empty.  I have recently added an ELK-M1KP in my basement for convenience while I'm downstairs.  After installing it, I realized that it reports temperature (unlike my ELK-M1KP2's that I have elsewhere in the home).  Is it possible for me to...

Hey all - I'm having issues enrolling my p212s on my Elk M1G.  I've got a pretty simple setup, 2 keypads, already successfully enrolled on my DBH in 1 and 2 and working for quite some time.  Now, I've purchased a p212s in order to battery backup my modem/router, but I'm having some issues...

Hey all, I've got a pretty standard Elk M1 Gold setup, nothing too fancy with 4 motions, 6 doors, 4 speakers, and 2 keypads all wired.  I'm using AlarmRelay for internet monitoring, and all is going well so far, but I need to address the issue of battery backup on my network components (router...

Hey all, been viewing and reading as much as possible - recently built and moved into a new house.  My builder pre-wired my house with an out of the box configuration.  I was able to tell them where to put motions, ran cat5e, and additional LV wiring, but I am unsure of what they ran to my...