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I have an M1 Gold in my house.  I have an asterisk server on a *BIG* UPS.    Has anyone ever had the Elk talk to the asterisk server to call the fire department or police in case of an alarm situation?  Would that qualify as a monitored setup for insurance purposes?   I'm specifically talking...

Hello,   I have an outbuilding / shop about 350' away from my home.  I sometimes need to turn off the lights from the house and don't want to run out to the building due to various reasons.   I'm about to re-light the building with T5HO fluorescents and would like to explore control strategies...

I'm wondering if this is possible. I have a Centralite Litejet 48 and an Elk M1 Gold. I know the two can talk. Is it possible or has anyone used Elk to make keys on the lighting system do different things depending on time of day or day of week?

Ok, I need to figure out what to do with the whole house speaker wire. I am not immediately adding amps. I ran cat5e and speaker to each zone. Should I just terminate the Cat5 into my patch panels like all other cat5? Should I terminate the speaker wire somehow? I'd hate to leave it...

Please forgive my ignorance, but I'm wondering if there are NON pet immune sensors available? Let me explain: I have a couple of cats and the litter box is in the powder room downstairs. When you have multiple cats, they don't cover the turds up. We want to use the motion sensor in the...

What security patches? You'd have to be a fool to have a file server open ported to the internet. Nobody is downloading anything onto the server, so it doesn't really need "security patches" does it? In my experience, Windows XP is hardly rock solid no matter what you do with it. Drivers -...

Does anyone know if there's a standard width for rack components? I got a free rack from work that was getting thrown out, I've got a Cisco 2948 switch going in it and need to buy a 4U case to fit it, but i keep seeing different numbers on cases when I look at them... 19" 23" 17" etc.

Finishing up my wiring closet, I have a bunch of RG6 hanging down from the ceiling. I have a run to each room and need to know what's typical for termination in the wiring closet. I currently have cable, but am going to be transitioning over to satellite boxes and probably those will be in...

Ok, I just had the sheetrock go up, and I pre-wired about 7-8 zones with single gang LV j-boxes and cat5 and audio to each one. I then ran speaker wire to each speaker location and tucked into the rafters for later. I'm befuddled by the different systems out there. A-bus sounds interesting...

I'm pulling what little hair I have left out. I'm installing a new Litejet48 in my new home. I've got everything installed except the loads are not connected yet. I'm trying to get some construction lighting going. Just a couple of loads. I have tried everything I can think of to connect...

Hello, I'm new to the board, been lurking a while but now have gotten to the point that I need to post. I'm in the middle of a new custom home build and have decided to look at hardwired lighting control, mostly because I've got a ton of entry points to most of my rooms and the 3 - 4 way wiring...