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My point is no matter how much structured cable you have its never enough. Currently my house has over 2km of Cat6 and I probably need to add another 300m, but that is a major job for another day.
#Homeseer amazon echo full#
My main 24 port switch is full and now needs a second switch. I only fed my office with 6 network sockets, which was way too few, so that now has a local 8 port switch and I only fed my kitchen with 2 network sockets so that also has an 8 port switch.
#Homeseer amazon echo Patch#
My node 0 has a 48 port patch panel feeding a 24 port switch - I included a lot of redundancy in my wiring, but sadly not enough in the right places. Unfortunately, the iOS shortcuts app can't use power draw as a variable as I initially looked in to seeing if I could trigger the automation based on the power draw of the plug, but no dice.īecause I had to structure cable my house after we moved in, it was 10 years old and 3 storeys, it wasnt possible to get all of my patch RJ45 sockets cabled back to my main patch panel so I have a pair of Cat 6 cables that run to the top floor, where my cinema room is These are connected to a 16 Port switch that is LAG'd to my main 24 port switch in Node 0 (I wish I had pulled fibre in hindsight). I trigger the smart plug by scanning a NFC tag that I've attached to the edge of the desk near the PC, so that when I sit down (and scan) the motion detection is turned off. It's a simple if statement that exits the shortcut if the "PC" (a philips smart plug I called PC) is turned on. This is the script/automation that I've sent up in the Apple Home app. except the electrician that questioned which I wanted a 32A supply under the stairs. Thankfully I pulled and terminated the cables myself during the first-fix stage (during that winter in 2010 where we had a load of snow), so I pretty much had time to do things how I wanted and I didn't have anyone else to judge.
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My bottleneck now is the 24 port switch as I've maxed that out with wired devices! Obviously, things have moved on since I built (as mentioned I've ditched the IR system and use the ceiling cables for wi-fi access points, I now use HDbaseT to pump 4k video over a single cat 6) and gone are the two landlines which I initially patched over the network cable (each with a possible max of 4 possible handsets) so that was a 8-way patch bay in itself that I no longer use. I actually have 3x UniFi access points internally and 1x UniFi access point on a pole by the Sky Dish for external areas. However, to anyone thinking of doing the same (and I did this for my parents when they built) I used the spare cabling in the ceilings to have an access point close enough to each room for the signal to be epic everywhere. I ran it for ages off a centrally-positoned wifi router The crazy part was, I hadn't even though about proper Wi-Fi coverage during the build. Having a vision where all the electronic devices would be situated under the stairs and controlled remotely meant I needed a lot of options. Then I tried to cover each room in the same basic layout by having a 2-way socket on the near, middle and far end of each wall (both sides) as I wasn't entirely sure on the layout AND I ran a cable to the ceiling of each room for IR blasters.
#Homeseer amazon echo tv#
I started on the principle that each TV would need a 4-way socket behind it (2 for HD over ethernet) and 2 for data. Click to expand.When I built the house (there's a thread on here) I flooded the property with Cat 6 for future proofing.