Joseph, We have our KX-TD1232 connected to ECS.
We have a somewhat older ECS version, so we use a card called "Bigmouth" to announce several items: -Caller ID to the living room (it tells us who is calling before we pick up the phone), -A door is left open more than x minutes. (We have children). Windows left open at night get announced in the evening, before it gets too late. -Special messages announcements (Time to leave for school at 7:45 weekdays, etc.) -Emergency messages (Smoke detectors on, etc). Announces to house first, then calls emergency responder list....(Security svc, my pager, etc.) -Wake up calls, these include the weather data from our Davis weather station with current conditions. Kids know whether to dress warm or cold. -Scarecrow calls. If motion is detected at the front or back doorphone areas late at night, ECS turns on the light (via X10) , and calls the doorphone involved asking them to either identify themselves or 911 is being called. -Power outages. The system runs on a UPS. UPS data goes to a digital input. Any power outages page me. I capture the SMDR data into a program I wrote years ago in Pascal. It is logged into ECS, and stored. The family finds it useful.....So and So called 3 weeks ago from their cell phone, what was that number ? This could also be useful for legal purposes to prove we called Mrs So and So on a specific date. We also have the TVS-50 voice mail. Most of these don't require a KXTD1232. We chose that after we added onto the house and we needed more than 16 extensions. We can use ECS to announce to specific rooms, or groups of rooms, or the whole house. The phone stuff is a fraction of what ECS does. I have not evaluated the newer version of ECS with our phones, but if you are interested they are launching a new version at http://OmnipotenceSoftware.com . We have been using ECS for over 10 years now. My children have grown up thinking all houses are like this..... I wrote a magazine article about our original system back in 1995. It is at www.homeautomator.com . Look in "Previous Issues" and scroll down to the Volume 1 , Number 2, and click on Reddy Biggs' ECS-automated home. We have upgraded much of the system since then, but you will get the idea of how we started. Cheers, Reddy Biggs ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Schwartz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: KX-T: any integration with home automation? Has anybody integrated the KX-TD1232 with a home automation package like Homeseer? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
