Mike Barnes wrote: In comp.home.automation, Bob Fish wrote: jim.griffin@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 20, 9:56 am, "Paul" <p...@skoda.fielding.ca> wrote: So I want to get whole house audio, or more precisely, whole condo audio. I can't run extra wiring in the place. I tried a wireless speaker extender, but reception was sketchy between opposite sides of the condo and through
On Jan 17, 4:38 pm, RickH <passp...@windcrestsoftware.com> wrote: On Jan 16, 10:26 am, John M Lauck <recaffeina...@gmail.com> wrote: If you were wiring to display video on lcd panels throughout a home (say 2 to 4 screens), what wiring would you use? HDMI seems to be easiest and most cost effective because it's smaller wire (vs composite, dvi etc), best quality and includes
You can never have too much wire! In my home I ran a minimum of 2 cat 5e + (usually) 1 RG-6 cables to every wall in every room, to every closet, and to upper wall (near ceiling) wherever a plasma screen TV might be mounted - including all bedrooms and the kitchen. I ran 16ga speaker wire to everyplace I might want a speaker as well as to potential volume control locations. I also ran alarm
Hi, all. I've been researching a lot and reading this group's archives. I'm about to build a house and want to wire it up to "the nine's" I'm looking at whole house audio, distributed ir and video, alarm system, outdoor audio, x10 or insteon, and anything else you guys can think of. My thoughts currently are HAI Hi-Fi for the whole house audio, 2 cat6/2 rg-6 to each room. I'm kind of lost
Steve, Your questions are very common and speak to a continuing problem with AV/Home Control issues. "How cheap can I get in? Can I get in cheap and later upgrade?" There are a variety of ways to go about distributing your PC audio playback throughout your home. Elan makes some great stuff. The Russound solution is also good. Systems like that are somewhat 'closed' in that they don't
