RE: Advice on sending video and audio around my house ... ?

[Keith Doxey]

Hi Marcus,

Tony and Mark have answered most of the points and its good to have the
answers given by satisfied customers :-)

KAT5 can be custom built to ANY mix of Audio and Video in either direction
subject to a maximum of 4 circuits in a unit. This is because each circuit
uses one pair in the CAT4 cable and there are only 4 pairs.

Your RF cables should not cause any problems as they a receiving signals
rather than transmitting them so the signal levels are only microvolts.
Also
despite my best efforts at introducing interference to KAT5 I have failed
miserably :-)

So much so that I did a demonstration to Mark McCall where I DELIBERATELY
connected the output of a CD player to the CAT5 cable to cause interference
and it was inaudible on the output of KAT5 despite the fact that if you
listened to either of the wires you could hear both the wanted and unwanted
signals. I then demostrated that I could get just the interference signal
from the distant end as well.

I was hoping to have demonstrated that at the UKHA meet last week but didnt
have time to set it up.... just as well really because nobody brought any
speakers to plug into Tony's amplifier :-(

Current development schedule is....

1. Adding IR functionallity to KAT5 and making the upgrades available
2. Releasing the long overdue KAT5 switcher
3. Releasing the VGA units
4. Developing Digital Audio units which will then give AC3 etc.


Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Warrington [mailto:<a
href="/group/kat5-users/post?postID=zk2SxNeF11pXgoF3TVBYrZau6G_XjtRispN7L97-aVOqRQRzZMhYNxmDLKdm3esRcNL1zprVB7p_oiJxkZI">marcusw@m...</a>]
Sent: 13 May 2002 15:42
To: <a
href="/group/kat5-users/post?postID=ynPP6ATxZDY9gOYhHHeJWK29daM8qH-F3ZEXra6uYnZBNnTXwM-1cVW60O9Dszi2IFi6IYtQpgJjFbt4gc6AN31uV1Sy">kat5-users@xxxxxxx</a>
Subject: [KAT5] Advice on sending video and audio around my house ... ?


Hi everyone..

Does anyone have any advice for me on sending video and audio
around my house ?

I'm presently having the house flood wired with Cat5 cable as
part of a rewire. Actually that WAS the idea, but the electrician
I'm using seems to know nothing about cat5 cabling (I caught him
folding and stapling it 90 degrees around joists etc) ,anyway we've
come to an arrangement were he will fixed and supplied the faceplates
and *I* will pull the wires. Each room will have a double face plate
(4 RJ45) and a single face plate (1 RF + 1 RJ45) mirrored in two
diagonal corner.. (so a total of 10 RJ45 and 2 RF in each room).
I was originally going to have 2 RF's in the single plates, one
for upload and one for download of video signals but having read
about Kat5 it seems a better (quality) and versatile system.. hence
one RF has been replaced by an RJ45.

I'm fairly new to all this but have been researching on the .net
for a few weeks now. I wish I'd started earlier and found out about
X10 stuff before the electrician finished the rewire. ( I'd have
made sure he put in a neutral wire to each light switch.. damn!)

Anyway, from what little I've learned I'm thinking the best way of
distributing the video and hi-fi around the house is to use some
form of TX/RX devices over the cat5 cable.. like the Kat5 devices :)
I've seen a couple of places mention sending full 5.1 audio over cat5
does Keith do (plan to do) anything like this or are the Kat5 just
for video ? Is it possible to split the TX signal so I can send the
same signal to 8 different rooms i.e. like I will be doing with the
TV signal via an 8way TV amplifier ?

Also what about IR control.. ideally I'd like a IR Rx in each room
routed back to node 0 and then patch to appropriate IR TX to control
the equipment.. be that in node0 or in another room in the house.
I assume this is all possible by having a TX/RX for IR in every room
(feeding through a cat5 cable). I'd then have a couple of Pronto's to
control everything :)

Does anyone know if its permissible to run RF cable next to Cat5 cable
in the same conduit around the house ? I know I cant run cat5 cable near
mains voltage cables but I'm not sure about how noisy RF is ?

If I can't use Kat5 for audio I'll have to run speaker wire to each room
..is this wire noisy (pardon the pun), can I run speaker wire in the same
conduit as cat5 and RF ?

Any advice would sure be appreciated.

Thanks

Marcus




To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
<a
href="/group/kat5-users/post?postID=9Jf3TkIocI8t8rYtrm8MQhya3uyehdLYDfj3aCqlEQisnJc3aspoAT-Eu5TYLU54Eg92A2ZHFq98LMzmvb3wsXnTGgA4wqDaAw">kat5-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxx</a>



Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to <a href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/";>http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/</a>