Re: Money to Burn...Your Dream HA System?

["Mark Harrison" <Mark_Harrison_UK@xxxxxxx>]

Ruairi,

One other thing (and apologies if you know this already.)

You will see a lot of discussion on this group about ADSL vs. ISDN.
There are two things to be careful of when reading those discussions
from a Spanish perspective.

1: ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) is what you call RDSI
(Red Digitales Servicios Integrados). I've come across a fair amount
of confusion with people thinking that RDSI is ADSL!

2: A lot of the things we complain about when talking about ADSL are
_not_ inherent problems with ADSL, but to do with the way that BT has
implemented and marketed this in the UK. Telefonica seems to have
done a better technical job with ADSL in Madrid, but you should take
some _local_ advice about provision, and not assume that our problems
will be your problems.

Saludos,

Mark




--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ruairi" <ruairi@r...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post, so please be gentle ;-)
>
> My wife and I are building our home in Spain and I want to put get
as techie
> as possible with HA fun.  The build will not be ready for 18 months
but I
> need to plan it out within 3 mths to keep the architect happy.
>
> I have a HA budget of about ?8,000, is this too much/too little?
>
> I need to know what are the main things to go for.
>
> We already have a Home Cinema system (where I got the HA bug).  So
my
> initial thoughts are
> Security
> Distributed AV
> Fast EtherNet
> Active Lights
> Heating/AirCon automated
>
> But my question is what's good/bad in these HA areas.  What
products to go
> for/avoid.
>
> Also one of my desires is for voice control of everything, is this
feasible?
> If not How about IR remotes?
>
> Also what are the things I need to tell the architect/builder to
get it
> right and leave scope for expansion.
>
> Regards,
> -Ruairi
>
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