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My panel had a battery go bad and it did something weird and the panel went completely berzerk.  After rebooting it with a new battery, for whatever reason it would not give me the ready to arm despite all the zones being ready to arm.  Finally, I factory reset it and started over.  Now I have a...

I have a DSC PC1832 at my office.  I have two partitions and this is the main partition I'm dealing with which has 7 of the 8 zones assigned to it.  I just installed a water zone on zone 8.  It is an EOL NC zone like the others.  When I trigger the water sensor, the siren sounds and partition 1...

I'm playing around with one of these wifi devices with a built-in relay.  I am not able to configure it.  I have it hooked up to a usb/serial adapter and opened teraterm session.  When I boot the device, teraterm has some jibberish mixed in with legible info about the device and its ip settings...

I installed and programmed this system many years ago and wanted to make a change.   I hit *8 but instead of allowing me to enter the installers code, it gives me a long tone as if I did something invalid.   Perhaps something has been set to lock out the installer function, but I don't recall...

Can't get my unit at the office to do what I want.  I have a relay connected to the PGM 2 output which powers a water shut off valve.  I want the output to turn on when armed away (which causes the valve to close).  But, when coded as I believe it should, it turns the relay on for both armed...

Just thought I would share my experience.  I bought an Elk WSV for my office more than a year ago and finally just installed it.  Of course it was "defective" and not really new anymore and I just didn't want to deal with warranty.  The problem is that it was about 20 degrees off from where it...

This is for my church.  Our sanctuary has 5 independent hvac units which all feed a single gigantic room.  There are 5 thermostats in that gigantic room.  Frankly, I don't think this was a very good way to do it, but it is done already.   Because the 5 thermostats are scattered about, it...

I was just out of town for a couple weeks.  I had a house sitter come in a couple times a day to feed the dog, water the plants, and so forth.  I have several elk rules which are supposed to email me every time the system arms or disarms.  I got an email the day I left like normal when I armed...

I'm trying to monitor the amps consumed by an electric motor using my cai board.   I've found these pretty cheap devices on ebay   http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2pcs-design-20A-range-Current-Sensor-Module-ACS712-Module-Arduino-module-/321111721218?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ac3c00502   I am...

I have a device that let out the magic smoke.  I tore it down and found this brown oblong ball connected by 2 wires to the board.  It is sitting next to a capacitor (white rectangle).  I think the capacitor just got scroched on the outside when the brown thing melted down.  There are no numbers...

I just spotted a new bulb at Home Depot today and it is only $13.  It is made by Cree (and marketed under their name as well) A19 60w eq 9.5w actual 2700k bulb.  I bought one to take a look.  I was tempted to just buy a bunch because I have never been disappointed by Cree before.  True to form...

I stopped into the booths at SXSW yesterday and here are a few things.   1) Saw the Ube switch.  It is currently a hacked smartphone.  Here is a video of me using it.  http://youtu.be/A16BIcXMOoM  I was told it will be shipping the real version by June. 2) There is a company that has an IP...

I have 2 chumby's.  I really liked them.  They showed me the weather and ESPN sports headlines alternating back and forth.  This is all I needed to know every morning.  Now, poor chumby appears to be bankrupt and they shut the servers off.     What to do?  Can you host your own chumby server...

I was just at a Lowe's in Round Rock, Texas today and noticed a door to a section I had never seen before. I went in there and it turns out Lowe's has put in something like 10,000 sf of shop space loaded with equipment. Machine Shop, Metal Shop, Wood Shop, Electronics Shop, CAD design shop...

The non-blocking delay function isn’t well documented in the user manual. You can place a set of brackets [] after variables, ttl inputs, an ttl outpus in most PLC lines. How this worked exactly I endeavored to figure out. So I did a bunch of experiments and found the following: First...

Had a bigtime WAF issue the other night. It was 2:46AM and "the lady" as she is referred to by my wife announces something to the effect of "Lost Comm to Output Board". Then it starts in with the beep every so many seconds. This is the second time this has happened in maybe 2 years. I...

I just got uverse and they gave me the 2-wire 3800 hgv model. I have a vpn router and private network at my office so I turned on the dmz plus mode and directed it to my vpn router. That is working great. The question: I would also like to have a public wifi access point for visitors to my...

I saw this on Universal Devices forum. It is the ISY model that is being replaced by the newer one, but if you don't care about being able to add a zigbe or zwave radio (which aren't even yet available) then these ISY's will suit you fine for a pretty good price...

I have been given an I/O device that incorporates webhook. I know nothing about webhook. . . hadn't even heard of it until now. Anyone know how to use it? It is supposed to allow the I/O device to post it's status to a webhook server whenever user defined criteria are met. It seems to work...

I am useing dyndns.com for my dynamic ip address. I have the xep setup to report changes to dyndns. My ip changes very rarely, I think my prior address might have been a year old or more. It changed yesterday and Elk sent me an email that it had changed and then another telling me it...