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I looked at the code setup last night. I'm actually looking at the voltage created by the burdon resistor. Also the wire in the panel I made a loop so that the amperage that the sensor is seeing is twice what the actual is. Also I thought last night that a lot of people out there are using...

There are other things on the circuits. However the TV pulls more than any thing else by 5 amps or more. In surge on the TV is obvious. I do not have a ceiling fan on that circuits so I can not tell you if that would be high enough to fool the program. I save the last 5 seconds of readings...

A little late on this but.... I use a 1-wire system connected to HomeSeer. On the 1-wire I put DS18S20 temperature sensors. I read a post once were someone used that flat speaker wire to run the wires into the freezer and then put the sensor inside the freezer. I've been wanting to get to...

Sorry been out of town - VACATIONjava script:emoticon(':)') smilie I ended up going with the CRMag. I put it at the panel on the curcuit that the entertainment system is on. Monitor it for a sudden increase - TV turned on and then monitor it for a decrease of 75% of the amps that the TV uses...

Just to give my two cents: I started off on a VERY low budget. I got an ActiveX10 system and a couple of X10 light controllers. Now my system has just over $1000 worth of components and if you count the computer that is a bare bones home made from spare parts and a good...

I'm going to do that method to monitor the whole houses usage this summer and will pick up a few other for off/on, but looking for a quick fix to an issue that I've had for a long time. I monitor the IR on/off of the TV and keep track of it that way but every now and then the power button is...

At one point in my automation hobby I used a break out box. I found it to be less than reliable. But I was looking at the left over parts and was thinking I might be able to reuse some. The one I'm really intrested in using is the TV on sensor. http://www.smarthome.com/8012.HTML I was...

:) Thanks for this posting. I was having a hard time with an LED nightlight. I hooked it up to a lamp X-10 unit and was using it for a little light in the room in the morning. (I get up very early and my wife continues to sleep.) I was never able to get it to work in the plug that I really...

Nice: I have a lot of old 1-wire stuff laying around from when I was developing my own HA program. I was using the IDs for door keys and opening the garage when the kids got home. I would like to get something running under HS. Does any one have a plug-in that returns the ID off the iButton...

They are just protecting themselves. Once the phone company disconnected from my house I disconnected their lines in the service box so that there was no chance of a volage source from them and hooked my packet8 telephone adapter into the house wiring. I've had no problems. I'm running 1) two...

I had to work real hard to effect the quality. I had two computers downloading sp2 update from Windows before there was any degrading that I could hear. There is a good packet vs. bad packet page on the telephone adapter in that case indicated it was loosing about 1/3 of the packets. I don't...

I've been with packet 8 for 6-8 months. LOVE IT. They don't admit it yet. The last firmware update made it posible to get modem data sent over their lines. My alarm monitor is working. As for sending a fax I haven't tried but even when I had non-VoIP I didn't use the fax more than once...

I have been looking at getting Mainlobby for sometime. I'm really impressed with what some people have done with it. BUT. If I get it before I upgrade to HS ver.2 will I have to buy it again?

I'm going to monitor my windows, doors... but I still want the existing Alarm system to work. I have a DSC alarm that has a different sized eol resister (have not looked up what size yet) than used with the Secu-16I. I was wondering if I tie into the existing door/window sensor and run it...

I obviously am not a VBasic programer.;) I have a temperature sensor that after changing the Ocelot value to the temperature I post that valve to a device. I would like to change the number format from default # of char. to 3 before the decimal and 1 or 2 after. In Pascal it was done by...

You will want to use smoke detectors in the majority of the house. They are actually better at detecting a fire than the rate of rise and they detect it in the smoke stage which is the part that kills people. Modern ionization type smoke detectors do not give very many false alarms due to dust...

I have been automating my home since before the 2-way status modules came out. I have yet to buy a status reporting module but I'm thinking of upgrading the lamp modules. In reading the sales stuff on them I get that they report and Off to On condition. Do they report when the load goes to 0...