​In this sample video we show you how we install our Outdoor Z-Wave Motion Wall Lighting.

If you would like more information on this and other outdoor Z-Wave Motion Lighting including our line of security flood lights please click on the link below.
http://www.007systems.com/z-wave-outdoor-motion-lights.html

If you would like the docs form of this video, click here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RIjDocaMiWm09vpM_Tvx7LESCLBjbViGe8etcyD_n-A/edit?usp=sharing

Like any other building, your home or business keeps you safe and warm to work and live. You worry about the things that cause harm or damage to your family or your home. This is why you get alarm systems or insurance.
Shouldn't water control be a concern too?

Water Control is the ability to control the water both on and off, coming into our property. It Is something most of us never think about. Unfortunately because of the costs of the damage that may occur when a water line breaks, we all should, not only think about it but prepare for it. This is especially true if you own a vacation home or business that you only use occasionally.
You might be thinking "But I turn off the water when I am not there". That is great, but what will happen if you forget to turn off the water prior to leaving, of if you are up for the weekend and you are out on the boat for the day? A leak can happen at any time. When it does, if you are not there to turn off the water immediately, there can be some major water damage.
Some interesting facts about water damage.

• Water damage is something that can happen at any time.
  Since your water lines are pressurized, usually 50-70 pounds per square inch. A water line or water hose can burst at any time. 
• It does not take a natural disaster to cause it.
  Water lines can break or leak when nothing happens. The age of materials is the leading cause of failures, but even temperature fluctuations can cause a water hose to leak or burst.
• It can happen to newer and older homes.
  Poor construction or move in damage can cause water line breaks too.
• I have seen water leaks cause damage slowly .
  A cracked water line behind a refrigerator can spray a mist on a wall for years and cause black mold.
• Water damage can run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
• Water damage may not be covered under your homeowners insurance.
  If the water damage is slow and unobserved, most insurance companies do not cover this type of damage.

All of these problems can be mitigated or even eliminated with a properly installed Automated Water Control System.

​Now lets talk about you and your home or business and what to look for and finally how to fix it.
Your Home or Business
The first thing to keep in mind is that all of your water pipes are pressurized and filled with water. Any of these pipes can leak or burst at any time, but the places you are more likely to see a water leak are places like,

• Under your sinks
• Behind your clothes washer
• Behind your refrigerator
• Near your water heater
• Under your jetted bath tub
• In your basement or sub flooring where water pipes or drains are
• Under your dishwasher
• Behind Toilets
• Or any other place there are pipes or soft hoses filled with pressurized water.

Take a stroll around your home or office. Look at these places and think what would happen if a water line broke in these locations and how much it would cost to fix the damage caused, especially if you did not catch the leak for several days.
These are the places you should think of placing the first line of defense in your water shut off strategy. The Water sensor.

These three components comprise a Water Control system.  
You may have a controller already and can easily add the sensors and a valve motor to your existing system to complete your own water control system.

Now that you have your home and water control systems installed you can do some really interesting things with it.
If this is a second / Vacation home and if you do not have a stop waste valve controlling your system, you can program your system to automatically turn off your water when you leave your home and on when you arrive. This will make those weekends at the lake house, easier because you will not have to do it yourself and take the pain out of forgetting to turn it off.
I like to do this with electric locks that are paired to the home controller system.
If you would like to learn more about water control and each of the parts described above, please click on the links 

If you are building a home and are interested in installing a Water Control System in it, I would think about routing your main water supply pipe through a garage wall or some other accessible and dry area and putting a main water shutoff valve in that area maybe in the wall with an accessible cover it for easy access. You will also need a 110V outlet for the power to this motor in this area.
I recommend an accessible area because at one point you might need to replace the valve or motor. It is much easier to do this in an accessible area than it is laying on your back in the dirt under you home.
If you live in a colder climate, you might want to think about installing two of these valves to make a stop and drain (stop and waste) system to automatically drain the water in your pipes to prevent them from freezing and bursting the pipes. One valve to turn off the water and another valve to drain the water from the closed system.

​The benefits of having this system are, the ease of using it manually and if you have it set up as a emergency automatic shutoff system, you will never have to think about it.
With these three devices installed and properly programmed, you will have an extra safety net covering your homes water system and you can rest assured you will probably never have to experience any extensive water damage to your home or business.

We carry these components separately or as a Water Control Kit.

I hope this article informed you on the the benefits of having a water control system in your home or office. If you have any questions, please contact us or ask here.

In this How To, I will show you how to set notifications in your Vera controller to send you an email or text notification when a door or gate is opened. 
In this example we will be using a garage door and the plug in called "Garage Door" but this example will work with most other devices in your device list.
Let's get to this.

Open your Vera UI (User Interface). You will need your user name and password for it.
You can log into it here.

Determine what UI you are looking at.

If you are viewing UI6 or UI7, click on the "Advanced Settings" link on the bottom of any page to take you to the UI5 looking UI.

Now that we all should looking at the same thing, click on the "Account / Other (MY UI6/7) Users" tab located  top left.

Now we are looking at a list of all of the people entered in your Vera controller. You can only send notification to people listed here. If all of the people you want to send notifications are here, you can go on to the next step.
If not, add new users.
You should see at least one name and Access Level here. If someone installed the unit for you, you might have to add yourself.
NOTES: 

• Each person you add will need their own MIOS account.
  
• When creating an additional user account, Vera will use this email for notifications.
  
• I have two people here. (1) is the Administrator, (1) is a Guest. I blocked out their names.
  
• You can select the Access Level for people when you add them. If you do not want a added person to make any changes in your system I strongly suggest you make them a "Notification Only" Access Level.
  

Now that you have added all of the additional users to get notifications. Lets check to make sure the notifications settings are correct.
Click on the "My Contact Info" section under the "Account" tab.

The "Contact Information" window is where you can set up different types of notifications and their limits and test them to see if they work. 
If you want notifications only on your smartphone, I recommend only sending email notifications to an email address you get on your phone. 
If you select email, text and phone notifications you will get 3 different notifications for one event. There is no reason to have multiple notifications pop up on your phone when just an Email will do.
I also recommend setting up a filter in your email account to put all of the notification emails automatically into a folder so they do not clutter up your in box. This folder will act as a time stamp for all of your homes notifications.
If you do not have a smart phone or do not get email on your phone, you will have to set up your mobile phone in the "Phone settings" area.

Click on the "Devices" tab located  top left. Then make sure "All" is selected just below and to the left.

Go to the device that if opened or triggered, will send you the notification. 
In this case we will be using the Garage Door plug in module that we set up to control our garage door.

Hover your mouse over that module.

When hovering your mouse over the module, a push pin and wrench will appear in the top right of the bar of that module.
Click on the wrench. This will open the settings for that module.

Click on the Notifications tab.

Click the drop down after "Add Notification for"
Select "A door is locked or unlocked"

Give the notification a name so you can see later what this is you are creating. Something like "Garage Door Email"

In the drop down after "Which Mode" select "Device is opened" This will send a notification only when the door is opened.
NOTE: If you select "Device is closed", it will only send a notification when the door is closed.

Click the "ADD" button.

If you want a notification for both opened and closed, you will have to add 2 of them. One with open selected and one with closed selected.

After it is added, you will see your notification rule appear below the line.
Then put a check in the box of the people you want to notify.
If you want to notify other people not listed here, you have to add more users in the Account / Users section. There are two people here. I blocked out their names.

Click the "X" in the top right corner of your module.

Click the red "SAVE" button in the top right button of the UI.

When the Vera controller is done rebooting (about 1 minute) you should see no errors in this area. If this area is empty, you are good. 

Now you should go back into the module you just set up and see if all of the changes you made are there. If you do not make any additional changes anywhere you will not have to save again.
If everything looks good, you are done. 

You can test it by opening your door or triggering the device you set up the notification on. It should send you a text and or email depending on how you set up your users in the Account / Users section and "Contact Information" settings.

Control Your Home!
Jamr / 007 Systems

We have a new unbox and install "How To" instructional video, showing the Ecolink Door Window Sensor.

This new "How To" instructional video shows what is included with the sensor, how it works and how to install it.
There is also an installation example of how to attach external standard switches to this sensor to the Z-Wave switch to save you a lot of money. So say you have a window with multiple panes that go up and down or a couple of windows that are set next to each other in one room. You might think you would have to buy a Z-Wave switch for every window. Well you could but that would be a waste of money.
You can get 1 of these Z-Wave switches and attach 4 inexpensive magnet reed switches to it and any window that is switched with the reed switches will trigger the Z-Wave switch.

If you like it, please visit our How To section to view more. You can also subscribe to our channel to get the latest.

Instructional Video

We also sell a complete kit you can install yourself that has everything you need to control, automate and monitor your garage door here.
We carry this item separately here.

Instructional Video

Hi folks, we finally got our hands on the new Linear GD00Z garage door opener Z-Wave controller.
I remember first seeing this product at the ISC show in Vegas back in April and could not wait to get my hands on it.
Today, we tested this device with our test Veras we have determined that it is not ready for use with the Vera Lite controller.
We do have a tech support ticket open with Vera and we will see if we can get this device working with the Vera controllers.
We will let you know how it goes.

UPDATE 17/July: After 2 phone conferences with Vera's tech support they still can not get the GD00Z to include correctly. This time they recorded logs to dissect by higher tech support .

They said that they think the problem is with the Vera's but until they figure out what is the exact problem is, they can not fix it.

They said they were looking into it and would get back shortly.

Bottom Line, hold off on buying one until we know for sure that if the GD00Z will work with Vera. 

UPDATE 30/July: After an email update request, this email was sent to me today.
"We are adding support for the Linear Garage door opener over the next couple of weeks. 
Our development team is working on adding support for that and once it’s added we will release an update which will allow to work."


I have requested a more accurate date for the availability of this update.
I have also requested if there was anything I can do to our existing Vera's to make the GD00Z work now.

UPDATE 4/Aug: I received a call from Vera today. They said that to use the GD00Z would require you to update to UI7 and it would require a firmware update. They said it should be available within a week.
When asked, "Can I still remain on UI5 and use the GD00Z?" They responded that UI5 would not be supported to make the GD00Z work.

As disappointing as this is, I am on the fence to upgrading to UI7 as some of the app I have installed do not yet work on UI7

As usual I will put any pertinent information this issue here.

UPDATE 27/Aug: On the 25/August,  I called and left a message and sent a reply via the support ticket opened for this problem and as of 6:55 on 27/Aug I have received no reply back.
It has been 7 weeks since I opened this ticket.

Update 30/Aug: I received a call from Vera tech support today. They said they still had no date for the UI7 update that will enable use of the Z-Wave GD00Z with their Vera systems. When questioned about the release date of the update, he told me that he had no date again but it was looking to be at least another month or two.
If you need something now, we do have an easy solution for this problem here.

Update 13/Oct: I sent a request to update this still open ticket and received this response from Vera.

"At the moment the Linear GD00Z-1 can be added on the Vera unit but it won’t work as it uses a a new z-wave command class that’s not yet supported by Vera.
Our development team is working on adding support for that and once it’s added we will release a new firmware which will allow the device to work with Vera.
From what I know the Linear Garage Door Opener should work with the next UI7 release which will be released soon but unfortunately I don’t have an estimated date.
I’m very sorry for the inconvenience."

We are now selling Nest Labs products.
And to celebrate we are having a sale on them and free shipping!

These two new products include the Nest learning thermostat and the new Nest Smoke and CO Alarm (AKA Nest Protect).

The Nest 2nd Generation thermostat has been around since 2011 and has been a leader in this home technology.

These new products are top quality and are work together in your home to be even more energy efficient.
At this time the Nest thermostat can integrate with the Vera Home controller giving you even more ways to monitor and control your home. We are hoping soon to have an API from Nest to integrate the Nest Protect. Even without the connection to Vera, the Nest Protect has some pretty cool features.

If you are interested in protecting your family with these quality products, check out the information and videos we have on the site.
Nest Learning Thermostat
Nest Protect Smoke and CO Alarm

Learn how to easily install some components in your garage to control, automate and monitor your garage door with your smart phone or tablet from anywhere in the world.
You can even program some interesting logic into your home controller that will open it automatically when you or your car get close to your home or in case of emergency.

There are several ways to control your garage door with a Z-Wave home controller. We have found that this method using these products seems to be the safest, easiest and cheapest way to go.
Your kit will come with the following parts.

1. A Z-Wave Appliance Module 
   The appliance module will receive the Z-Wave signals for the door opener.
   Make sure you have an appliance module and not a dimmable light module, as a dimming light module will not function correctly with our RM10.
2. A relay module to trigger your garage door opener. (RM-10)
   The RM10 is the interface between your appliance module and your door opener.
   It is designed to duplicate the action of the button on your wall when triggering your door opener.  
   This low voltage relay is assembled by 007 Systems. It is tested and is much safer than any 110 volt relay.
3. A door sensor. (EL-TILTZWAVE2-ECO)
   This Z-Wave door tilt sensor will tell your home controller if your garage door is open or closed. You will need this sensor if you plan on doing any automation based on the status of the door. You will also need this sensor if you want to see the status of the door.
4. A camera to see the state of your garage door live. (Optional but highly recommended!)
   This is an option, but we do highly recommend them as they give you a live view of your garage door. With an IP camera you can see if it is safe to open or close the garage door.

Got everything? lets get to this.

Instructional Video

WARNING: Do not install automation equipment on any motorized door or gate unless you have the latest safety equipment supplied by it's manufacture installed on it, including but not limited to, occupancy sensors, status sensors, reverse sensors and reverse mechanisms.
Using automation or control equipment on a motorized door or gate can be dangerous. Be aware, you are giving control of your electric door motor and door to an electrical device which can trigger your door or gate at any time.
007 Systems takes no responsibility for any damage or injury resulting in the use of these parts.

We also have a written document you can print out for installation of the RM10 here.

Further Instructions

Once you have the appliance module, RM10 and the door sensor installed, you can now control your door with the controller.
Please be aware that appliance modules are either on or off. Each trigger of the door opener places the Z-Wave module and the RM10 in the on position. It will stay in that position until you turn it off until you install automation to do that for you. If you leave the Z-Wave module and the RM10 in the on position, it may cause problems with your wall button.

To solve this problem, please use automation to automatically turn off the appliance module after it is triggered by you. If you have a Vera controller and have both the appliance module, RM10 and the door sensor correctly installed and connected to the Vera controller, we recommend downloading and installing the "Garage Door" plug in from the Vera plug in store. It will take care of turning the Z-Wave module and the RM10 off for you after each trigger and really makes controlling your garage door much easier.