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I downsized to a new (to me) home last month. This one has a pool that was built shortly after the house (early 80s), but they did an awful job with the equipment. Pump and filter are in the garage, gas heater just outside of it. All the gear is direct wired to breakers, didn't know you...

I have about 20 UPB switches throughout the house and only had an issue with one on install until today. One of the upstairs switches doesn't respond at all to local commands (Single rocker). It worked fine only using remote (iPhone of HS interface). Tried putting it into setup and nothing...

I would like to find a way to switch the output for announcements between my ELK and my Homeseer box. The only speakers I have on the first and second floors are the Elk speakers. The basement does have overhead speakers in the bar and full 7.2 in the theater, Is there some way to wire the...

I was looking at the VWS plugin for Homeseer yesterday and got to thinking of adding a weather station to my setup. I don't want to spend a ton of money, so would like to keep it below $150. Anyone know of a decent weather station (temp, wind, humidity, rainfall (or I guess snow now)) that...

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I was looking at some of the energy monitors, but from what I have seen so far, all require access to your main line at the panel to connect. In my case I can't get to it as the garage is drywalled and the meter is right behind the box. I do have a sub panel in the basement, but not sure if I...

Does anyone make a black zwave or even upb outlet? Need one to match kitchen outlets. Maybe I Should just break out the Krylon?

Finally getting around to wiring up my Elk and installing some of the sensors this weekend. I'm still a month or so away from any programming but was looking at what makes sense from a connection point of view and what to use to drive what: Here's what I have (or will have this week)...

We are just wrapping up the basement build out consisting of a 9 seat home theater, 8 seat wet bar with keg tap and a couple of TV's, bedroom and bath. I have all my equipment rack mounted in the theater and had purchased some Buffalo IR gear to play with but I don't think that's going to do...

Well, seems you need to be a dealer now to get the software. Any other source for the project editor software? I was going to pick up a used NC4, but if I can't program it, might be a useless find.

I had a chance to pre wire my house for a lot of sensors, however I couldn't get near the smoke detectors. Currently I have 11 FireX hardwired detectors all tied in together. I'm in the wiring phase of the basement bar / theater / bedroom and bath and plan on pulling wire to one of the...

Ok, so after a month of of pushing him, my builder has given in and is letting me run some wiring. Only problem is, I will only have 2 days to do it, it will be after the electrical rough in inspection before drywall, I have to fire caulk any holes I make that penetrate floors and he won't...

I posted over in the HA forum that we are building a new home and I am planning out our system. I unfortunately have one of those asshat builders that won't allow anything that isn't in their 40 page options list to be done on the house, so pre-wiring is out. House is a two story (3400 sq ft)...

Happy New Year! Haven't been on here in quite some time and haven't really kept up, sut I have a few questions if anyone is willing to toss some ideas my way We are building a new home in Michigan and I'm looking to put in some Lighting Control, Automation and Security. Unfortunately our...

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I'm in my 3rd house in 4 years and each time I keep trying to build a better system. 1st house was a 1920's vintage that had a lot of x10 stuff installed (not many boxes had neutrals in them). Wife liked it except the ghost lights going on and off sometimes. 2nd house was a new build. Ran a...

Now that the ELK is up and running and HS is almost there, time to start the next project. I want to distribute independent audio to four rooms that currently have speakers and impednace matching controls (rotary) running to them. Here's what i have: The builder wired speakers in the ceiling...

I have HS 1.7 up and running and bought the ELK Plug-in last night. Got a .doc error on loading last night and ended up with no help file of instructions wo I'm winging it for now. Can anyone help me in setting up the lighting functions? I have all my lights defined with UPStart (Device 1 -...

I've been looking at those cards from kit parts (or his ebay ads) and I like the 8 channel (DVR8082) version, but I would never use all 8 channels, so I started looking at the 4 channel with hardware compression ( DVRH264 ) version. Anyone have one of these or know any reason not to use it...

I am having problems setting up my M1 Gold. I have the following: Elk M1 Gold Data Bus Hub Caddx NX-408E Wireless (2) Keypads M1XSP hooked to UPB Lighting Module Several wired window and door switches I installed the Data bus and hooked up one keypad and all was fine. Then the second keypad...