HDMI (faux help Gooch build a house thread)

[Tobias]

ethernet will be useless for the short runs he's talking (unless they're doing the rest of the house sd-style)

[The Big Train]

Ethernet is fine but if you really want to plan for the future you need several Bluetooth AP's per room. 

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

Wifi generally works well enough for most applications, but wiring is still superior. Be aware that wifi security cams can be a major bandwidth hog. Seems odd to not install wire when it's so easy to do when building a house. Better for resale, too.

[CNS]

Low voltage wire is super cheap.  If there is any question that you may eventually use it, put it in.  I mean, a 1000' roll is like $280 and two ppl could basically wallpaper a house in wire in a weekend.

[steve dave]

I also built my house all wired up for 7.1 sound in both living rooms. SONOS EVERYWHERE.

[Tobias]

the gooches are basically similar in approach to the daves except for breeding and all that so i say listen to sd

[pissclams]

i hooked my xbox one up to my google fiber with a cat7 cable.  why? because headshots bros. 

[kim carnes]

Media will be dead in 5 years*

*not music tho

[kim carnes]

Pretty sure movies are already dead

[Tobias]

Media will be dead in 5 years*

*not music tho

[HerrSonntag]

Most HDMI cables can support HDMI 4k, which is arguably the only format that might supersede HDMI in the coming years, so you probably don't have to worry about it.  If you are, as mentioned earlier, just make sure your cables are ran through conduit so you could just pull new lines through if something better comes along/

[GregKSU1027]

Ethernet is fine but if you really want to plan for the future you need several Bluetooth AP's per room.

This will be important

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[GregKSU1027]

Just make your home a Google home 
https://madeby.google.com/home/?utm_source=en-ha-na-sem&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlehome&dclid=CPTfl8GZ-NACFVJgAQodHvIF6A
https://madeby.google.com/home/?utm_source=en-ha-na-sem&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlehome&dclid=CPTfl8GZ-NACFVJgAQodHvIF6A

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[GregKSU1027]

Two separate links one for a home PA and a sick router system that is as close to Google fiber you will get in the 316

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[GregKSU1027]

And yeah upgrade all of your hdmi cables to the ones that can handle 4k cause that will be important and soon alot of things will be going 4k

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[Mikeyis4dcats]

http://www.mocainyourhouse.com/

[hatingfrancisco]

Ethernet is fine but if you really want to plan for the future you need several Bluetooth AP's per room.

Oh Jesus christ

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[Skipper44]

Gooch, are you limited in what your tv providers might be? (only one cable/fiber option, tall trees or HOA prohibiting dishes)  Direct TV's wireless boxes work well and make this problem kind of a non issue but Dish's and AT&T's kinda suck in my experience.  If you don't have a lot of options here I would safe guard by going overboard on the wiring during construction.  If you are in a new area that has crap for high speed internet you will want to hardwire everything to make most of the bad ip.  This may really become an issue if Trump lets us all get mumped over on the net neutrality issue.

Low voltage wire is super cheap.  If there is any question that you may eventually use it, put it in.  I mean, a 1000' roll is like $280 and two ppl could basically wallpaper a house in wire in a weekend.

It's all very cheap and easy - coax, speaker wire, power - to run during construction and I would rather have it and not need it than the alternative.

My over the top advice -

Every possible TV location (Master Bath, Garage, Patio, Pool, Hot Tub, etc)
Power, coax, HDMI and 3 runs of cat 6- one for the network and two for use possible HDMI extenders or whatever next gen thing might be coming. 

Also run a pair of wires anywhere you might want speakers and run 7.1 in the main tv watching areas even if you don't plan on using it - you never know what hobbies you might develop in your old age

[The Big Train]

Ethernet is fine but if you really want to plan for the future you need several Bluetooth AP's per room.

Oh Jesus christ

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[hatingfrancisco]

Just run cat 6 in conduit every where you want it.  It's copper and it's modular and it will do everything you need it to.

[hatingfrancisco]

Ethernet is fine but if you really want to plan for the future you need several Bluetooth AP's per room.

Oh Jesus christ

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I, for the life of me, can't understand the BT AP hype.  It's limited in speed and it's in a shitty wireless spectrum.  2.4 GHZ gets trampled on by everything and the only reason BT works worth a damn is because it's low power and small in coverage. 

[The Big Train]

Ethernet is fine but if you really want to plan for the future you need several Bluetooth AP's per room.

Oh Jesus christ

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I, for the life of me, can't understand the BT AP hype.  It's limited in speed and it's in a shitty wireless spectrum.  2.4 GHZ gets trampled on by everything and the only reason BT works worth a damn is because it's low power and small in coverage.

You aren't gonna clog your network as much with multiple BT AP's.  I said that because you really think he's gonna know how to properly setup a good 5ghz network so it gets the same coverage as a 2.4ghz?

Advances are coming down the pipe and you just want to be set up for the long haul. Ya know?

[XocolateThundarr]

We need to have a conference call.

[Gooch]

Went with a 2" inch chase that we can pull whatever we want.

[Tobias]