Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / February 2004

I just finished renovations on my house and ran coax cable to every
room. It was not the top quality that there was in coax, but I didn't
know much before I started about it. I signed up for Digital IO cable
and they ran it to my basement where all the rooms' wires meet. The

How do most people monitor a zone in a house.  I would like to have the
lights turn on when I enter my daylight basement.  I would like the lights
to turn on when I'm going down the stairs and turn off when I'm going up the
stairs.

My brother has an MDS-6 (6 zone audio distribution amplifier) with 6 x MCS-1 zone controllers. The controllers for zones 5 and 6 are
mounted very close together. If I unplug the controller for zone 5, then zone 6 works perfectly; similarly, if I unplug the
controller for zone 6, ...

I'm looking at getting some X10 equipment and trying to understand the
technology. I would like to set up a couple of scenarios but am not sure if
it's possible and if so what technology to use.
e.g. I would like to have a doorbell wired to a conventional chime when I'm

Hello group,
We are about to start construction on a new house, so I want to prewire and
install some speakers..We now have a giant Pioneer powered subwoofer, and I
just don't want this big thing sitting around in the new house along with

i'm about to wire my house for audio and vido and data and i have a
chocie between cable with cat 5 in the bundle or 60-70% more for a
bundle that has cable that "  Meets proposed Cat. 6 standards under
development by the Telecommunications Industry Association"

Heres my delima...
I have two areas of my hours (front hallway and bedroom hallway) that use
multiple switches to turn on and off the lights.  I want to make it so I can
controll bot lights with my X10 system.  Is there a special switch I need to

I have two of these units that I picked up used.  They basically seem
to work ... in monitoring the temperature, etc.  and I can "call in" and get
the voice synthesizer responding back remotely.  However, the dialing out
mechanism does not see to work ... in either of them.

hi,
i'm moveing in a week and i'm looking around for a way to store the
mounds of computer parts and cables i have, but i dont know how to
store these things properly? dose anobody know of things to store it

i know this is an extreamly dumb question, but what is wire
termination and which wires need it?

Okay, this may be a stupid question (I know, there is never a stupid
question just stupid people asking questions... lol)
I just bought a remote for my PC that has X10 capabillites.  It has a CM19A
module that takes the commands of the remote allowing me to interface with

I've been running a CM11a for a few years now with Homeseer.  Last night it
stopped working.  I disconnected./reconnected it and there are no batteries
in it.  Anything else to try?
Thanks

Are there any new universal remotes, other than those sold by
X10, which support X10's RF???  The current ones sold by X10
itself seem to be a rather "old" design, in that they don't
even have a "DVD" button.

I would like to transmit my AV throughout my my house using
these <a href = "http://www.smarthome.com/7805S.html">S-Video Baluns</a> from
SmartHome.
Is it possible to use a hub so I can take one balun and use that with several

I've got a customer with a lot of CAT5, Phone, and Cable, all routed to the
basement - not an exact count yet, but 8-10 of each......
Does anyone have any experience with the Leviton "Advance Telephone and
Video" panels. They seem to be modular, and could work. Any design guides