This is the first post in a comprehensive series on low voltage wiring and structured cabling. We’ll be discussing how to wire your home for TV during construction or renovation in such a manner that leaves you flexible to either use an HDMI video matrix or local sources behind each display. There are essentially 3 […]
Monthly Archives: February 2018
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Ever get halfway down the block just to question if you’ve closed the garage door? It’s a frustrating moment deciding whether or not to turn around and check. With a little bit of hardware and this simple app, never be in doubt again. The Vera platform consists of a small hub that can be bought […]
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The Elan Home Systems media control interface is expansive, but we’ll try to do it some justice with a few screenshots that are fairly self explanatory. From our more general overview on using Elan Home Systems we know that from the main media screen we can select sources, control volume, and even see some basic […]
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From our general walk through of Elan Home Systems we see this main climate screen and that we can view and edit current temperatures. When you drill down further into the tab the detail is expanded greatly and you can edit heat cool set points, humidity, schedules, and even see a history of your climate […]
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As part of our Elan Home Systems overview, we’ll take a deeper dive into the security sub system of the Elan g! home automation system interface. To recap the discussion from the more general walk through, on the main page you see three devices available. The first is the home security system, which is communication […]
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This post has been replaced by an updated version for 2020 and the 8.4 core module. Click the link to follow. This is a long overdue update to the previous Elan G overview published in late 2016. Since then, Elan Home Systems has released the 8.0 core module update, which completely overhauled the user interface […]
