thatdarnguy
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Hi guys, hopefully this is the right place for this!
We're halfway through our house extension at the moment, and I'm starting to give thought to our options for centralising all of our home cinema, hifi, network, PC equipment etc. I'm fancying some cool gadgetry in all honesty, does anyone have some ideas for some options for a blank canvas?
We'll be extending one bedroom to make it the master, adding an en suite, creating a new bedroom for our baby daughter next to us, then downstairs we'll be knocking down the wall between our dining room and kitchen, and adding a sitting room on to make it a nice open plan space, then beside that we'll have a new study (mancave), playroom and utility room.
I'll be cabling up cat6 (shielded) around the house myself once the electrician has been in and made all the holes! Currently planning on 2 ports in sitting room by TV, 4 ports in study - 1 for each desk, 2 beside TV/consoles, then 1 port in the two bedrooms upstairs, and 1 port beside the router in hallway (as this is where our main phone line is). All of these cables will tie back to a patch panel probably in the cupboard in the study.
The sitting room open plan area will have two sofas and a TV on the wall, then behind that wall will be our new study, in which we'll have another TV back to back with the sitting room, I'd like to have all my game consoles, PS3, Wii, 360 etc. in the study, but also be able to use them in the sitting room and maybe even in the living room (which is located behind the dining room) - if such a thing would be possible! I'd also like to be able to watch Sky in our new bedroom and the other TVs, but not sure I want to bother with multiroom, so any bright ideas for what I could do here would be great!
I'd like to create a central media server for playing music through each room in the house too, creating separate zones, so I'm planning on running speaker cable in the walls for this too, I'm really not sure what my options are here. Ideally I'd like something that we can control and stream from our iPhones/iPads, but also from our PCs, as currently we have a wee central media server (HP Microserver) that I plan to use to store all of our media for streaming around the house.
Really any advice on any or all of the above would be greatly welcomed, I've seen heaps of different options and alot of off-the-shelf solutions but the majority of them break the bank, I don't mind a level of DIY for it all for both the IT stuff and the cabling to save myself some cash.
Thanks folks!
We're halfway through our house extension at the moment, and I'm starting to give thought to our options for centralising all of our home cinema, hifi, network, PC equipment etc. I'm fancying some cool gadgetry in all honesty, does anyone have some ideas for some options for a blank canvas?
We'll be extending one bedroom to make it the master, adding an en suite, creating a new bedroom for our baby daughter next to us, then downstairs we'll be knocking down the wall between our dining room and kitchen, and adding a sitting room on to make it a nice open plan space, then beside that we'll have a new study (mancave), playroom and utility room.
I'll be cabling up cat6 (shielded) around the house myself once the electrician has been in and made all the holes! Currently planning on 2 ports in sitting room by TV, 4 ports in study - 1 for each desk, 2 beside TV/consoles, then 1 port in the two bedrooms upstairs, and 1 port beside the router in hallway (as this is where our main phone line is). All of these cables will tie back to a patch panel probably in the cupboard in the study.
The sitting room open plan area will have two sofas and a TV on the wall, then behind that wall will be our new study, in which we'll have another TV back to back with the sitting room, I'd like to have all my game consoles, PS3, Wii, 360 etc. in the study, but also be able to use them in the sitting room and maybe even in the living room (which is located behind the dining room) - if such a thing would be possible! I'd also like to be able to watch Sky in our new bedroom and the other TVs, but not sure I want to bother with multiroom, so any bright ideas for what I could do here would be great!
I'd like to create a central media server for playing music through each room in the house too, creating separate zones, so I'm planning on running speaker cable in the walls for this too, I'm really not sure what my options are here. Ideally I'd like something that we can control and stream from our iPhones/iPads, but also from our PCs, as currently we have a wee central media server (HP Microserver) that I plan to use to store all of our media for streaming around the house.
Really any advice on any or all of the above would be greatly welcomed, I've seen heaps of different options and alot of off-the-shelf solutions but the majority of them break the bank, I don't mind a level of DIY for it all for both the IT stuff and the cabling to save myself some cash.
Thanks folks!