RE: About Me

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, and by the way - you'll find that getting an HA 'contractor' to do
anything for you will cost significantly more than doing it yourself. There
is enough info here to help you learn to do it yourself (and much more fun)
if that's the way you want to go.

For starters, have you speced Cat5e network cabling in your house? Not only
is it good for PC networking but pretty much everything else in the HA
world can connect through it (electric curtain control, security, Audio,
Video, electric door locks etc etc).

I bought this place about 3 years ago and totally re-wired the lighting so
that every light in the house is X10 controlled (would now go C-Bus if I
was to do it again) and put in about 5Km of Cat5e and there are still
places where I don't have enough!

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Jones [mailto:sean@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 March 2005 00:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] About Me
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> I have just bought a house (http://www.ruinousproject.blogspot.com)
I
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> like our project, to some extent, to express my tragic nerdiness. My
wife
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> resigned to a portion of our budget being spent on showy technological
> nonsense that I will beitching to replace within 3 years. I have only
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> vaguest inkling of what home automation involves and I'm here to
learn.
> Expect me to lurk at first. Then I will butt into threads with
half-arsed
> and ill-informed points.You will slap me down. I will deserve it.
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> by the time the builders move in I will have learned enough to enable
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> talk to a home automation contractor in a way which doesn't make it
> immediately clear that I am clueless.
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> Be gentle with me.
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> Sean
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