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I too have been curious of the age demographic here for a while. For a long time I assumed that I was on the younger end of the spectrum, but not so sure anymore. I'm mid-30s now. Looking back at my profile history, I see that I joined the site back in 2009 [late 20s then], a year after we...

    I just took a few minutes to read the article. It states that in the article: "...Bhargava (who asked to be identified only by his first and middle names)... " There are definitely some impressive integration pieces mentioned in the article; uber wait times, battery % levels, fuel levels... 

I'll have to read this a little later, but congrats on being featured. That's pretty cool! 

I never bothered with trying to get any detail out of the email message. Once I got a text stating my alarm had been activated, I would log directly into a) the Elk app and/or b) my camera system. My camera system was configured to send me MMS messages as soon as anyone was at my front door, so...

I feel like I had a pretty reasonable HA setup in our last house (sold ~18mo ago). The only thing we really left were the in-wall and in-ceiling speakers. I pulled my Elk, keypads, and everything associated with that except the door/window sensors. I also pulled our 4 exterior cameras, zwave...

Yup, as RAL said above, top right is the spot for me...      Granted, on my first install, I did it flat on a SW3 plate (right below DBH): 

I've been in some commercial spaces where I've seen 4" conduit sealed with a fire putty; apparently named intumescent putty according to the link wuench shared above. Literally, exactly like shown in many photos on that page where the cable simply passes though the conduit w/o termination... ...

Maybe I'm missing something... is there a reason that you can't use the XEP with Gmail with the SSL/TLS settings that satisfy the requirements for both? 

      I agree with both.... but neither address SmartThings integration.  I personally never really valued SmartThings personally, as I utilized the Elk Zwave module for integration for lighting and deadbolts. However, I believe SmartThings adds things like Hue integration, Alexa, etc. so...

You mention the open source project, Konnected... and stated that it "allows you to essentially control and/or monitor relay closures and access all that within the smarthings app."    So are you planning to purchase the Konnected DIO device with the intent that you will connect the various I/O...

  This is where I was heading with my initial question... changing the upstairs device to a network switch would greatly simplify things. Even if it is a "router" by hardware category. It would be easy to disable the DHCP server on it, set a static address on it that adds it to the first floor...

You have (2) separate cable modems (2 devices that have a coaxial connection), or is one of those a router? 

So, I never setup Rules in Elk based on temperature, so I'm not 100% certain that Elk was getting that information. However, I used the eKeypad app which provided an interface to the thermostat via the Elk Zwave integration... and the temperature was always displayed correctly there... and I...

I used the TZ45 (from RCS) for a while without any issues. 

  Also understand that the P212S is enrolled as a keypad. So you may get keypad trouble notifications from it as well, which you could then write rules for...  WHENEVER Keypad 3 trouble.... etc. 

I'm pretty sure it can as long as the P212S itself is on the databus as well; I don't have mine connected right now to verify, but I'm 99% sure it's possible. 

Sounds like your friend wasn't such a great swimmer.... good luck with the withdraws! 

You should still be able to utilize the mail.gmx.com server, with port 25 (unless your ISP has decided to start blocking it). That's also a possibility.    Otherwise, I am pretty confident that you are going to have to upgrade the XEP to support the STARTTLS or TLS (encrypted) options if you...

Note: Emphasis mine.      I thought those were already addressed... no?     Sure, the speakers would still be non-UL, but the separate siren should mitigate that right?

  Overall, I agree. However, the OP is not only planning to use them for Elk announcements but also leveraging the speakers for intercom purposes as well. And if the speakers are already there....