30 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris
When I first setup the Iris system the first question I asked myself was what’s “Partial” alarm? I only thought that people would just turn on their security system when they leave the house. After looking at the configurations and hearing stories about break-ins during the night. I can understand why you would like to have a night time setting or if your home alone.
29 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Vuezone
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Besides the Lowe’s Iris system, I also have the vuezone system from Netgear as my primary cameras. These are the only cameras that I know of which are truly wireless. No wires for power or connection to the hub. All the wireless cameras I’ve seen still require a line for power.
28 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in Iris
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disconnect, FIOS, hub, Iris, iris system, issue, Lowe's iris, Lowes, Modem, Verizon Communications, Verizon FIOS
I got this issue where my Iris hub would disconnect daily and at random times with my broadband connection from Verizon FIOS. I’ve contacted Lowe’s Iris support line and at first they told me it’s an known issue and new firmware upgrade to the hub that was coming out soon, (End of April 2013) was to resolve this. Once the version 3.04r25 was released I upgrading right away and the issue still continued. Continue reading
24 Friday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris
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This is how you disconnect your siren through the Iris web portal.
1) Click on the section for “devices”. 
24 Friday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris
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Everspring, Iris, Lowe's iris, Lowes, Siren, test
This is how you may test your siren through the Iris web portal.
1) Click on the the section for “devices”.
23 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris
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Everspring, Iris, Lowes, Siren
Once you paired your siren to Iris, you may notice that the siren doesn’t trigger correctly. There’s a good chance you need to just enable this option. I’ve created the video below which will show you how.
23 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris
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Everspring, Iris, Lowes, Siren
The image above is the reference information to the inside of Everspring siren and I’ve highlighted and pointed to the section regarding the bottom jumper which controls the option listed in the reference for tamper.
23 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris
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Everspring, Iris, Lowes, Siren
The image above is the reference information to the inside of Everspring siren and I’m pointing to the section regarding the top jumper which controls the option listed in the reference for audio. So all it means is if the jumper is on the two pins that are covered then the audio is set to High (100db). If the jumper is taken off then it’s set to low (90db).
21 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in Vuezone
Yesterday we were going through our routine of having breakfast in the morning, and received a call from our next door neighbor to see if our garage door was open. I looked out the window and it was closed, so I asked why you asked? It seems the neighbor next to theirs was open but their own wasn’t touched. Not thinking much of this because it possible maybe they just forgot to close it. So I told her I’ll check out my outdoor cameras and see if it caught anything.
To my surprise I see the following at 4:07am in the morning taken by my vuezone cameras!
17 Friday May 2013
Posted in Instructions, Iris, Secure
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alarm, Everspring, Iris, Lowe's iris, Lowes, Siren, YouTube, Z-Wave
After my failed attempt to find official supported Siren from Iris, I decided to find an alternative. I ran some Google searches for “z wave siren” which lead me to an image that looks exactly like the one Lowe’s offered but it had a different brand. It’s called Everspring model SE812-2. Once I figured out the brand and model it was easier to search for it.
As you can see from below the image from Amazon and the screen shot taken from the Lowe’s Youtube video. It looks identical.
Lowes Iris siren from YouTube
