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David,
Can't answer all your points, but I'm glad you're going the CAT5 route
rather than assuming everything can go wireless ;-) so I'll take 3 and
6
for starters:
3: KAT5 is intended for line level signals. I'd put a microphone
pre-amp at
the piano-end to take it up to line level, and take the output of _that_ to
KAT5. No idea which one to recommend - last time I bought a microphone, I
was
working as a recording engineer, and paid £700 of the companies money for
it ;-)
(AKG414-ULS if anyone's interested.)
6: X10 is the _affordable_ way to go, both in terms of money and time.
Basically, you buy it, you plug it in, it works, you then discover its
limitations and grumble, but hopefully by then the prices for the "next
level
up" will have fallen enough ;-) If you want a Rolls Royce system, please
let us
know how you get on, but most of us are in Vectra territory ;-)
Regards,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: David Sussman
[mailto:davids@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Fri 26/04/2002 18:34
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Cc:
Subject:
[ukha_d] Newbie seeking advice
So, I posted this on the uk.tech.home-automation, but only
got
a couple of
replies - the traffic is really light there, and it seems
this
is the place
to hang out. Here's the deal.
I'm currently wiring
my
house for cat5 (I'm in the
computer business and my credibility would
drop
if I don't have a wired
house!). This is quite a pain since most of the
internal walls are brick,
and the downstairs has a solid floor. But,
since
I'm redecorating top to
bottom any, chasing out the walls isn't too much
of
a problem. And yeah, I
know about wireless, so let's not get into that
discussion. I want cat5 so I
can hook into my my pc network, which will
include a PC based PVR
(eventually), MP3 server, etc.
I've
recently
had a quote for installation of a burglar alarm, and for
the
exhorbitant
price they quoted I could get Comfort and have a more
integrated solution.
Having spent the weekend doing some research, I've
a
few questions:
1. If I put a normal alarm in, could I interface into
this with X10 devices?
I like the idea of being able to troubleshoot if
I'm
away.
2. I've got LV Halogen lights in the kitchen, and I've read these
play havoc
with X10? The light is new and I don't want to have to
replace
it? If it
does cause trouble, is it only a problem on the ring it's
on?
3. I've seen KAT5, but would this be suitable if I wanted to wire up
a
microphone to record from the piano?
4. If I want to control
Comfort
from the Web do I need their Web Interface,
or could I use something
like
Homeseer?
5. I've got an oil fired Worcester boiler (a heatslave 20/25
with
an
embedded Dominion Heating timer panel). I'd love to be able to
control
this
with a better interface. More specifically, I want to use my
computer
to set
the timings, and perhaps be able to set it remotely (eg if I'm
away
turn on
the heating before I get home). Or would the only way to do this
be
to have
the heating / & h/w on all of the time, but controlled by an
X10 thermostat
device?
6. Is X10 the way to go? I've seen the cbus
stuff, and that looks pretty
cool to, and I kinda prefer the non-mains
variety.
Err, that's about it for
now.
Thanks
Dave
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