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Well I came to my senses and deciced to order some Rain8Net boxes for my sprinklers rather than going with the M1 relays/outputs. Ordered 3 of them ... had some issues the first time around but WGL was great to work with on the RMA and got everything working for me. Installed the 3 modules +...

Been working on my HA system with HomeSeer 2 / Elk M1G as the back-end engine for about a year now ... finally getting around to the front-end. Interested in input / what others are doing and/or pointers to threads I may have missed. My goal here is to do this on the cheap with used tablets...

Finally getting around to integrating my irrigation system with the M1 / HA system. I'll likely use mcsSprinklers on HomeSeer but use the Elk for hardware control and have some failsafe type of rules so a valve doesn't stay on too long, only one valve at a time, etc. I've done a fair amount of...

Finally getting to set up my motions. What zone definition do I need to use if I want to use the zone for HA purposes when the Elk is not armed. I'm thinking Aux1 but not sure how that will work when armed. Also, should a motion be NO or NC?

So after a long day of troubleshooting my 4-wire smokes (10 of them) that were previously on just 2 zones, I decided to go ahead and run one per zone. I'm using an XIN on adress 2 so the zones in use are in the range of 17-32. I've got all the zones configured as type 10, with an EOL resistor...

First Question: With a 568A RJ45 end on a DBH, which wires would I connect to 12V,A,B,Neg on a RS-485 terminal connection? Edit: Figured this one out. But still not the 2nd one. Second Question: What I have is 4 zone expanders all mounted together. I want to daisy chain the 4 of them and...

How can I get the M1 to announce the name of a zone when violated. Without creating a rule per zone I mean. I want a rule/event/whatever so that when any zone is violated, it announces the name of the zone.

So I downloaded an eval copy of CQC and am attempting to get Insteon going. THe first step per the CQC site is to install the SDM socket server. It in turn requried version 308 of the SDM. Now that I've installed that, PowerHome does not see the SDM and it doesn't seem to be working at all...

So I've got an interesting noise issue in the new house. Unforutanately it seems to be mostly affecting the section of the house that has the Server Room so it's a pretty big deal. I mentioned in another thread that I had a minor issue with Insteon and PowerHome auto-discovery which I solved...

As some of you know, I recenlty installed over 100 Insteon devices in my new house. I have a detached RV Garage/Shop that sits about 60' back from the back of the house. The power gets to it through a junction box near the main panel and there is a subpanel in teh shop. Anyway, I went ahead...

I'm in the process of installing my Greyfox Intercom system and I have an issue I thought someone here might have seen before. I've got the main console, brain, and one room unit wired up on the bench right now. Everything works fine except that the status LED's on the main console unit are...

So I'm in the process of installing my 4-wire smokes with my Elk. I've got two smokes on one zone at this point. All the smokes are homerun so I just hooked them both up to the terminal on the same zone. They work great independently in terms of when I hit the test button the Elk goes off and...

I'm installing my in-ceiling speakers today and am having issues with the grilles not fitting. I can put the grilles in the speakers no problem before the speakers go in the ceiling, but once they are in, it seems like they are getting squeezd / mishapen somehow because the grills don't go in...

I had my M1 all set up and working on the bench via the M1 XEP, had tested a few sensors, etc. So today I mounted it in the can on the wall and began to connect door contacts. But when I went to connect to it with RP, I get an error that the Remote Programming Access code is invalid. I did...

I've got my house wired for Nuvo Grand Concerto and am installing all the speakers but don't have the Concerto yet. I'd like to hardwire the speakers to the Elk for voice announcements, etc. for the time being. I imagine I need an amp of some kind but what's the easiest / cheapest way to do...

So my ultimate nightmare has ocurred. The notebook I recorded all the wire label #'s in when I pulled the wires for the house has been "misplaced." So my toner and I are becoming very familiar with each other. Anyway, short of pulling the contacts out of the door and window frames, is there a...

How are most of you handling the wire management for the sensors which ultimately go to M1 zones? Bring them straight into the panel, or bring them to a punchdown block of some sort and then go from there to the M1? I recognized that introduces another point of failure but with as many sensors...

I will need to mount serveral Elk zone expanders in a 50" can. I see the holes in the circuit board don't line up to the holes in the can? How do you mount these? Drill holes that mate with the XIN or is there another solution?

So now that I've figured out how to set up all my sensors on the bench (door and window, motions, glassbreak, and smokes), I need to plan out my zones. I have a large installation and will need multiple zone expanders. I'm trying to figure out what to do as separate zones and what to put in...

I'm trying to bench test my smokes before installation and don't have something connected and/or configured right. The smoke is a DSC FS-410. It has 5 screw contacts on it. From the diagram it looks like the 5th one is to daisy chain the power. I've got the Pos/Neg SAUX from the M1 connected...