Whole Home Internet and Audio Project

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Marvin_Zindler
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Cross-Posted on the Home Improvement Board

I figured I'd post this as some inspiration/ behind the scenes for the board in the event anyone is renovating and looking to tackle their own low voltage wiring.

We are currently in the middle of renovating most of the downstairs (minus the master) of our house in West Houston. I've handled pulling in all the low voltage wiring. Not the first time that I've done this....mostly self-taught from the internet and YouTube.

The scope includes a 1-inch flex conduit back to the demark on the back of the detached garage, a total of 30+ internet and cable drops in the mud room, study, game room (upstairs), garage, living room, porch (cameras), back patio and master bedroom (future)...along with TP Link Omada access points for the first floor, second floor, and garage. Additionally, I ran audio lines for a 6-channel whole-home audio system with speakers in the living room (will be tied to a Frame TV), kitchen, dinning room, front porch, back porch, and upstairs playroom.

Below are some photos of the process. Blue wire is general internet, red wire is for access points, gray wire is for cameras, black is RG6 quad shield and white wire is 14/2 L/R audio.

Conduit running into under-stair closet along with lines going out to garage (all in PVC once exiting house and crossing breezeway.)




Lines running into under-stair closet








Other side of under-stair closet. Blue conduit runs all the way back to the demarc and has now been pulled in with fiber (AT&T), cat-6 and RG6





Rack in plastic. The rack houses a TP Omada router and switch, Ring Alarm Pro base station, AT&T fiber gateway and ONT, Lutron Caseta hub, external network hardrive, DAX88 6-channel whole-home amp, Cat6 and RG6 patch panels, and a CyberPower rackmount UPS.

adamsbq06
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I can help if you need to buy speakers and lighting equipment. Send me an email.
andy@andrewadamsav.com
Marvin_Zindler
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adamsbq06 said:

I can help if you need to buy speakers and lighting equipment. Send me an email.
Thanks. Already picked up both.
HECUBUS
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We just replaced all the wired audio in our house with Sonos wireless. Sonos has annoyingly bad software (app updates can be painful) and gets very angry if you attempt to use it with Alexa. I would never do a wired system again though. Sonos is good at putting music everywhere and tuning speakers/systems to spaces. Alexa for lights, plugs, and smart appliances and Sonos for music with a good mesh WiFi network. The garage door, thermostats, and doorbell camera do their own thing and the smart kitchen faucet operates independently from Alexa, but can take commands from Alexa.

Would be nice to wire during construction. That looks really nice. Fortunately, we had power available for subs, room speakers, deck, and shelf speakers. I had to run speaker wires through the walls and attic originally. Our wired speakers were massive. But, we no longer have the need to peel the paint off the neighbor's houses across the valley. The Sonos system is good for old farts like us.

Jealous of being able to build in all of that. Our big front speakers had powered 10" subs on a 7.2 system. We had three powered subs in the main surround sound room. I would put power outlets at all the potential speaker locations in case you go wireless one day or have crazy powered speakers. Who knows where audio technology will be in 20-30 years.
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