Re: Wiring idea

[Mick Furlong <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

Frank

do you actually have a specific AV Hub in mind?

The nearest I have seen to this is at this link
http://www.controlanything.com/html/asel.htm
which allows 8 input to 2
output stereo or 16 to 2 mono signals to be switched.It doesn't really
allow any to any connectivity or switching.

Mick

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:00:40 +0100, you wrote:

>In a word, Yes. You only need 1 Cable medium. The termination of the
Cat 5e at all points is a universal RJ45 Outlet.
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>Communication from The A/V Hub to the TV is via RJ45 to RJ45 at the
Patch Panel and an RJ45 flylead from the Cat 5e outlet to the Scart
>socket of the TV with a remote control reciever (Sky type mouse) to
send the signals back to a decoder or any other device which you may
>have at Node 0.
>
>Frank
>
>Roger Bilboul wrote:
>
>> Does this means you can use Cat 5 instead of CT100. How do you
terminate the
>> Cat 5 at the TV end?
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Frank Mooney [mailto:fm@xxxxxxx]
>> > Sent: 23 April 2001 15:04
>> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wiring idea
>> >
>> >
>> > A much simpler solution is to flood wire your house in Cat 5e
>> > with a minimum of 2 outlets beside every 13 amp power socket
wired back to
>> > Node 0. In your lounge you should wire 4 Cat 5e cables from
>> > beside every 13 amp socket.
>> >
>> > At node 0 you will bring in all of your incoming services,
>> > TV/Sat/ISDN/ADSL/PTO services etc. Utilising Patch Panels and
an
>> > A/V Hub you can
>> > distribute any service to any Cat 5e outlet. Also you can
return
>> > devices such as DVD/VCR/Audio System etc from any Cat 5e
outlet back to
>> > the A/V Hub and distribute to other Cat 5e outlets.
>> >
>> > This is the standard being adopted by many developers now
that it
>> > is available, So that an item such as the TV can be plugged
into any Cat
>> > 5e outlet because the cabling infrastructure is all the same.
>> >
>> > Frank
>> >
>> > ewenjc wrote:
>> >
>> > > I was re-wiring coax in my lounge last weekend and I had
a wiring idea,
>> > > which I wish I had thought of when I first wired the
house.
>> > I'm emailing
>> > > it, in case any of you had not thought of it.
>> > >
>> > > If you don't know where TV, hifi etc are going to be it
is best
>> > to run lots
>> > > of cable to lots of location (always a good idea to run
lots of
>> > cable).  I
>> > > have three possible locations for the TV, Cable &
HiFi and it
>> > needs three
>> > > coax, so I'd need to run 9 coax to the lounge and 3
maybe 6 to each room
>> > > that might have a tv.  I did not have enought time to
run this number of
>> > > cables and I'm not sure the joists would have survived
that many holes.
>> > > Also the patch panel would be massive.
>> > >
>> > > Since the TV can only be in one place in a room, I could
have done the
>> > > following.  If the room has three outlets; run Node0 to
A,
>> > Node0 to B, Node0
>> > > to C, A to B, B to C and C to A.  Each outlet has three
coax
>> > which can all
>> > > be used by patching together the unused outlets.  If
location A
>> > has the TV
>> > > then patch 'Node0 to B' with 'A to B' at location B and
'Node0
>> > to C' with 'C
>> > > to A'.  This will not work if you use bi-directional
cable ;)
>> > >
>> > > This should also work for cat5 but is less useful as
devices
>> > using cat5 can
>> > > more easily be spread around the room.
>> > >
>> > > Has anyone done this?
>> > > -Ewen
>> > >
>> > >
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