it always amazes me how some homoaners want to reinvent the wheel. I'm sure everyone here has lost a sale because the potential client wanted the system to do something irrational from our perspective. I want an alarm that can turn on the motions in stay and turn them off in away mode. or what ever! No that is not how security systems work. Well you find one that will [fill in the blank] and I will buy it. Then we wrack out brains trying to figure out how to do some of the crazy stuff they come up with and then wonder if it's going to be worth our while to cobble something together or are we better off just walking and finding some more "normal' customers.