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Hey there. I've essentially got a new house, have about half the siding work to go. I've been putting up vinyl siding flush mount blocks and wiring locations for 120v motion detect flood lights. I'd like to use a floodlight that has a camera and speaker built in like the ring floodlight camera...

Heyall, I'm rebuilding my house. I have about 30 lights I plan to put in the exterior aluminum soffit of the house. Something like...

I have an old house, I'm tearing down to the studs. I will be doing the work myself.  I have an ELK m1g, pretty much just using it for security now.   I'd like to have all lights fully automated, as well as having some wall outlets automated. I think my original plan was to use insteon, which I...

Does anyone know of a regular 110V duplex receptacle that has an integral wired relay? Seems like this should be a common commodity in the wired home world, but all I can find is ones that work off of wirelesss or powerline... ? I don't want to have to make them, just by them.  

I've been going around in my head for a long time as to what I want/need for home servers and security. Here are some of the things I want: 1. A place to store a bunch of files including media, general backups, photos, computer files etc. 2. I run a minecraft server for the kids 3. Serve up to...

I've got a garage that has 4 overhead doors, one man door, and two windows. all of which have a door switch, running back to my Elk M1. I also have wiring set up but havnt acquired a motion sensor for the garage, but intend to shortly. My question is what are some grand ideas of how I can...

does anyone have any elequent way to disarm a single door contact to allow the dog to go out at some point during the night? I'm installing a normally closed contact, but would like to do something easy like a single pushbutton to allow me or one of my kids to allow the dog to go out in the...

Awesome for me, I just got my Omnistat 2 hooked up to my M1G!!! it works!!! When I log in through M1 To Go, I can see the current temp on the Omnistat, and can adjust temps up and down. How can I use the "current temp" on the omnistat within elk? maybe I want to say "Whenever (omnistat temp) IS...

Hi there. I am brand new at this, please be gentile. I'm setting up an ELK M1 gold system for myself. So far, I've got the box mounted, the M1XEP set up, the M1SDBH set up, and the first lcd keypad. I'm now starting to work on setting up and M1XSP working with an OMNISTAT 2. I've connected the...

So i'm putting a low voltage panel in my garage. it has a green ground screw in it, I'm not sure where to ground it to. There is an outlet inside of the low voltage panel, my thought was to connect the ground for the panel to the ground wires that are tied together within the outlet box. Any...

Does anyone know of any cheap power monitors that could be used for data acquisition in a home automation system? I'm thinking something that could work by either adding directly inside my main panel, or right outside. The concept is to monitor each circuit, telling me where my high usage rather...

I have an elk m1. I also have built in speakers in the ceiling. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the elk to seize the speaker lines?

I live in superior wi. Im installing an elk m1 system. Im trying to figure out what smoe detectors to buy... Theres so many choices... 2 wire 4wire low voltage, 120v 3 wire ones... Can anyone point me to some basic info on these as two what the different types do, and particularly what the laws...

id like to switch a load using an ELK 912 relay with 12v dc signal and a 120vac switched load. My problem is ive always understood that one needs to separate 120v from low voltage. So some questions: 1. Using a 912, could i just put this in a regular single gang box, run the 120 and low voltage...

My M1KPAS has a pigtail that is included with it, but doesn't say what the part number is for the pigtail. In the manual for the M1KPAS it says to connect it with an ELK-WO40A. Turns out I think this is an RS232 connector...? This doesn't look right, can anyone confirm that this is a typo in the...

I'd like to add some automation to my garage and house. I see insteon has a pretty good setup for controlling lights and outlets, using their equipment which ultimately communicates without adding any other wiring, I'm not sure if their wireless, or if they send signals back through the 110v...

So I've recently acquired a cabin that doesn't have telephone but has power. I'd like to install a very simple system to notify me via txt of a power failure/return. The idea is some sort of power monitor (amp or voltmeter i guess) that can be hooked to a cell phone or a cellular based device...

So my first question. I have a 28" elk panel that im trying to mount an elk serial/ethernet adapter to. The hole pattern is 1-15/16x3-5/8. Ive looked at the elk swp and swp3 which both appear not to fit this pattern. Any suggestions? Rails maybe. Im really supprised in looking at elks website...

Hi There, I've bought an ELK M1 security/automation system, but havn't installed it yet. I plan to have window break sensors, window/door open sensors, motion, smoke, co, lel, and cameras. Maybe couple others. I don't know anything at all about the camera/dvr/security system tie in side of...

I'm working on my design for a new install of an ELK M1 system. I want to draw it up, and would like to do so either using Autocad (2005) or Visio. I've asked ELK if they have any sort of template that I could start with that already has the ELK in autocad, but they indicated they don't. Can...