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Richard, Removing it directly from the database makes sense. I should have thought of that. I spend the majority of my time at work doing SQL web programming. Duh. I would love to do this over the internet, but the cabin doesn't have any internet service. It's remote enough that the cost of putting ...

Well, I was able to create the new device with the Send Data property and got the Elk communicating correctly. My joy didn't last long because fro some reason there were two hardware instances named Alarm, and in the process of trying to delete one of them... I lost both. Since I didn't have a lot o...

Thanks Richard, I think you just hit on the problem. I didn't create a new device named Alarm. I quess I was reading your instructions wrong... thinking the null device was the Generic Serial interface. I was just able to create the new Alarm device and it now shows up in the list of devices. Unfort...

Hi Steve, I downloaded Richard's file named Alarm.zip. It contained 4 files; Handle Alarm.vbs, Elk_Words.txt, Elk M1.hbx and Alarm.hdf. After importing the Alarm.hdf file, I had a hardware interface called Alarm and two devices called Alarm Status and Handle Alarm. No device called just Alarm, only ...

Richard, After improting your .hbx, I had two devices; "Alarm Status" and "Handle Alarm", a Hardware Interface named "Alarm", and a theme called "Alarm". When I enable everythimg and open the theme, nothing changes on the screen regardless of clickinng control...

I'm on my last days of the trial software and still trying to get Richard's Alarm script to work with my Elk panel. I've read through his instructions and also the Elk RS232 Protocal, but can't seem to make since of it. I guess I'm hung up on adding the ascii (hex) codes on the device. Can someone g...