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I've had an M1 based system in my house going on 12 years now and it's worked great for me, particularly the expandability for garage door sensors, Insteon light controls, ethernet control, integration wth CQC and now Home Assistant, etc. A buddy is building a new house and has asked me if he...

Had an ELK in my old place and used NextAlarm but I recall some drama with them at some point. I had taken my ELK with me when I moved and now finally have it all setup again. Time to get monitoring again. Any recommendations on best reasonably priced (<$15/month) monitoring services? 

Hi, We have a small safe that I would like to monitor for any door opening or large bumps/vibrations. I have an ELK M1 but I'm not sure how to setup a sensor on the safe. I don't want to put it on the outside so that it could be easily disabled but also running a wire to the inside might...

I have a gate on the side of my house and I want to be able to have my Elk aware of when it is open/closed so that I can have text spoken and flash lights if its open too long.    As the gate is on the far side of the garage, there is no crawlspace easy run to get near the gate. I'd have to run...

Have a friend who I talked out of going with ADT but he doesn't have time right now to physically install an Elk. he requested installer info from Elk but no response. Any ideas on how I can find a good installer to refer him to? I'd help but just can't spare the time for about another month or...

I have an Elk M1 that I've been using with NextAlarm for 5+ years. However, I'm looking to add backup cellular monitoring and also probably move to AlarmRelay as I've heard their monitoring costs are less.   I see mention of needing to add a Uplink 4500EZ (along with extra power supply). What is...

When my house was built, they had put in a external air intake with a power damper to close it off. The setup had a honeywell controller separate from the thermostat that would, on schedule, open up the damper and run just the fan to pull in outside fresh air.    When the installer put in my...

I currently have one of the old wireless adpaters for GE Crystal Transmitters and have bought one of the new M1XRF receivers/expanders. Is there any easy way to move over all my existing wireless sensors?

I could have sworn that a while back I read about a quirk of the M1 & it's relay board that when the power to the ELK was cycled that it would then 'trigger' all of the relays attached. Am I just imagining things? I want to use a relay panel to control my garage doors but am worrried that a...

Turns out my PLM connected to my ISY 99 will not pick up all my insteon devices unless I plug a Access Point in to the PLM. I want to get one more for the house just to be sure I'm coverd. Anyone have a spare?

Finally got my cameras setup and now realize it would be a good idea to protect the PC/DVR. Can anyone suggest a strong enclosure for a mid-tower PC? I'd like to mount it to wall studs and for it to have some ventilation outputs as well.

I helped my girlfriend buy a new TV. She has some older equipment so her DVD player uses composite video. Her VCR only has a F connecter/coax output. And she has her digital antenna plugged in to the antenna input on the new TV. The problem is that I don't know how to hook up both the VCR and...

Is there any way to hook up some relays for the ELK but to have them in a different location? I want to put in 3-6 relays downstairs but my elk is upstairs. I don't really want to run 3-6 more wires down the conduit since it's already pretty packed. I do have a M1DBH already downstairs and was...

Somehow I've now lost the network connection for my Elk. It has been working fine for a long time but now neither CQC nor the ElkRP can connect to it. I've power cycled both the Elk and the M1EXP but no luck. Any ideas/suggestions on what else to do to get this working again?

OK, i"m not totally sure on the best way to do this so I figured people here could help. Here's the situation : I have a car lift that I want to have secured. I'd like to have it setup so that a PIN is required before the lift can be lowered, so I'm open to ideas on that. outside of that, I'm...

I just realized that this is no longer working for me. I am pretty sure that NextAlarm used to show me when someone would arm/disarm the system but looking at it now I only see alarm events. What do I need to set on the ELK so that it notifies/logs NextAlarm when someone arms/disarms the...

I have my GC upstairs in my house but I need to have 3-4 keypads downstairs. Instead of taking up more space in the conduit running from attic to crawlspace by running 4 Cat5s, is there a way to just run a single cat5? Seems like since the keypads have an address that it may be possible to...

I can't seem to get this working correctly so I was hoping someone here could help. I have a bluebottle email account all setup. In the Elk's M1XEP I have the server URL set to "mail.bluebottle.com", the From address as my account full address, the username as my full e-mail address, and the pw...

I currently have two areas where I have a main TV but also am putting in a Samsung 19" HD LCD in a secondary area. In one area I have the DirecTV HD DVR and in the other I still have my Tivo HD (HR10-250). For area 1, I need to feed a duplicate video signal approx 55' (+/- 5' for getting to...

Just got a new Dell low-profile box that i'm setting up for Media Center as well as to be a CQC server for easy control of some components. Only problem is that I now need either a low-profile video card with either HDMI or a DVI->HDMI adapter. Any recommendations for a decently priced one? The...