Re: Home intercom newbie question

["Derek Erb" <dce42@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Des Gibbons" <des@f...> wrote:

> Talk about moving the goalposts ;)

Hey the more I learn about this HA stuff the farther the goalposts
move both in direction and apart from each other. {vbg}

There are so many options I'm just trying to pick...

> I thought your requirements were to have
> everything happen on the PC's around the house?

One man's requirements are another man's dream. {vbg}

No matter what there will be an Ethernet backbone in the house with
lots of RJ45 sockets in each room (Smart Homes for Dummies).

There will be at least 2 servers in the basement that all of the
computers will connect to from most of the rooms.

I would love to control everything through the LAN.

But I also have to start being a little bit more realistic.  My wife
doesn't keep her computer on all the time nor does my youngest
daughter.  However each room can easily have a phone handset sitting
in it just waiting to be called.

The phone sockets are already installed and the phone company's
going to have to come out to add a couple of new lines for my new
home office anyway so I'll have them add more phone sockets.

My question then remains do I try and go for DECT wireless
throughout the house talking to one base station or do I go for a
wired PABX with handsets in each room?  I have a DECT wireless phone
in our apartment with no additional handsets.  Could I use that one
to go to the new house and test?  Do I just make a phone call and
keep trying to talk while I walk around the house?

Would an additional base station or two solve my wireless problem or
would the base stations not talk to each other?

Then I just have to get a system for the doorphone connection to the
phone...

More important than all of this telecomms stuff for me, as it is an
absolute requirement (home insurance company) and not a dream, is an
alarm system.  What I need is motion detectors which can set off the
alarm.  What I want is motion detectors that can also be programmed
for the lights and smoke detectors of course...

Cheers,