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Good morning...we bought a used house in Idaho as a second summer home and I'm going to replace the ancient Regency security system. At first I thought I would install an Elk M1 Gold system to duplicate what we have at our main house, but I started talking local installers and they are urging me...

Hi. I've got an ELK M1 Gold I installed about five years ago. I use a combination of wired and wireless sensors (glass shock and glass breakage acoustic). Everything has worked well until recently when the timer and clock started going bad. I started some basic troubleshooting today and found...

I installed an Elk M1 Gold in our primary home almost five years ago and have been very happy with it. I've used Alarm Relay for monitoring and have really liked their service - very reliable and reasonably priced. I use the built-in automation features of the Elk M1G to control lights via UPB...

Hi, everybody. I finished my ELK M1 Gold system a while ago and have lots of leftover parts. It's all for sale -- gotta get it out of the house. Everything is new, unused and mostly in the original box. My ordering mistakes are your gain!   Check it out...

I am able to export my Rules to Crystal Reports Viewer (.rpt) and Excel (.xls) following the instructions at http://cocoontech.com/forums/topic/28083-export-rules-as-text/. This is very helpful for keeping archives.   Somehow I was also able to export my Rules to an .exp file as well which is...

Our security system is an Elk M1 Gold. For the past couple years, I've used my work Dell Latitude laptop to run Elk RP and Upstart to manage the Elk and UPB lighting systems. I'm changing jobs in a couple weeks and need to turn in my work laptop, so I need to figure out the best way to manage...

Hello. I’ve got almost my entire house running on PCS PulseWorx switches with an Elk M1 Gold acting as the master lighting control.    About a week ago, my front porch light (controlled by a PulseWorx WS1D or might be a WS1DL) started going off randomly once or twice during the evening hours. We...

Elk M1 Gold rules question: Will rules set to fire at the same time (hour and minute) work reliably? Or does only the first rule get triggered?   Below are two rules both set to fire at 5:46 AM: #1 turns on morning lights during weekdays regardless of armed state. 198 is a UPB link.  #2 turns on...

I've got an Elk M1 with door and window magnetic switches, three internal motions, and a glassbreak sensor in the garage. I want to do more earlier to keep the bad guys out, so I'm thinking about adding window glassbreak sensors, but a lot of people don't recommend it with curtains, drapes or...

Good morning...Which wireless glass breaks should I buy? Honeywell-5853 or Elk-6040?   Background   Elk M1 Gold. Full wired perimeter coverage. Three Bosch Blue Line Gen 2 motion sensors covering LR, DR and main hall (additional coverage for entry doors). Everything has been running great for...

One of my Simply Automated lamp modules (UML-20-W, 400 Watt) turned on this morning by itself. It may have gone on when my morning Christmas lights scene activated. This is one of three SA Lamp Modules in the house; this one is used for a security light and the other two are used to control...

Aaaarrgghhh...Starting today, Elk RP works fine on everything EXCEPT Rules. When I click "Rules," It freezes. Every single time.   I'm at the very end of a year-long process to get Elk installed, configured, connected to Alarm Relay, use IP and GSM comms, etc. Last weekend, I finished the very...

Hello everybody. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families.   This is a general best-practices question on lighting automation using UPB switches and receptacles.   I want the Elk M1 to make our house look lived-in while we are out for the evening or on vacation (armed "away"). It seems there...

I installed an Altronix eFlow4N8 auxiliary power supply to power my energy hogs: Uplink 4800 GSM radio and strobe.   I'm stumped on how to properly monitoring the eFlow with the Elk M1 Gold. Can you help?   The M1 G has built-in self monitoring of AC Power (SR01) and Low Battery (SR11) which...

The Installation Manual is very clear about not grounding the M1 Gold in numerous sections:   Page 4, Notes "3. This terminal (formerly earth gnd) not used. Do not connect any neg terminals to ground."   Page 7, RS-485 Connector Note "This terminal (formerly earth ground) is no longer used. Do...

Good afternoon, all. I'm wrapping up the installation of my Elk M1 Gold. Right now working on communications. I installed the XEP module and brought it up fine. I created a GMX email account for simple SMTP mail and am successfully getting emails and text messages from both the "Test" button...

The ELK-M1TWA (Two Way Amp for Listen-in) draws 15 mA nominal in standby, but 1,000 mA (1 Amp) maximum during listen-in and announcements.   I want to power it off my Altronix 2.5A auxiliary power supply rather than the Elk M1G.   The TWA circuit board has a terminal block to connect it to an...

So I carefully set up my Elk M1G with the 16 base zones and an additional 16 hardwired zones via an Elk M1XIN at Data Bus Address 2 (17-32). When that was completed, I decided to add wireless capability, mainly for a keyfob, with an Elk M1XRFTW Two-Way Wireless Transceiver / Expander. Of course...

My Elk M1G installation is nearly complete; sensor wiring is completed and wrung out. The system arms and disarms correctly. Outputs 1 and 2 working correctly. The system includes three Blue Line Gen2 TriTech Motion Detectors which light up the blue LED whenever a person walks into the detector...

Synopsis-- cannot disarm the armed unit.   I completed most of my installation (still need to connect to GSM radio; XEP ethernet interface; 2-way listen in board), started the Elk, completed all Installer Level Programming (via the keyboard) and started testing.   I changed from 4 digit to 6...