Hi,
I about to start an Idratek installation and am currently building my "Node-0/I".
My house needs a complete rewire and while I have a lot of flexibility for cabling at this time, I don't want to be ripping the walls out again at a future date. Therefore, I'd like to make sure I cover the following scenarios in my cable layout plans - however improbable they may be!
* Selling the house and removing all the HA
* Moving back to a "standard" system
* Moving to another Home Automation system
My initial question is around the topology layout. I thought it may be a good idea to try to build a "star" layout as much as possible, even though Idratek support a free topology.
I don't have a final count for the required number of cat5's, but it seems that if I use an IPS-002 with 4 outputs then it seems a natural extension to add 4 x 6 way patchboard (as per "Gumby's" blog). I believe this will leave me with 20 connectors that could be used for my star layout.
I don't think this will be enough and what other methods anyone has used; for example:
* allocate a number of spurs per room and hope I can rework on a room-by-room basis if required
* add more patchboards in my node-I to force a star connection layout knowing that if I have to change systems, everything is acsessible at one location
* forget about the problem, as many system may work on my actual layout anyway!
Cheers - Dave
I about to start an Idratek installation and am currently building my "Node-0/I".
My house needs a complete rewire and while I have a lot of flexibility for cabling at this time, I don't want to be ripping the walls out again at a future date. Therefore, I'd like to make sure I cover the following scenarios in my cable layout plans - however improbable they may be!
* Selling the house and removing all the HA
* Moving back to a "standard" system
* Moving to another Home Automation system
My initial question is around the topology layout. I thought it may be a good idea to try to build a "star" layout as much as possible, even though Idratek support a free topology.
I don't have a final count for the required number of cat5's, but it seems that if I use an IPS-002 with 4 outputs then it seems a natural extension to add 4 x 6 way patchboard (as per "Gumby's" blog). I believe this will leave me with 20 connectors that could be used for my star layout.
I don't think this will be enough and what other methods anyone has used; for example:
* allocate a number of spurs per room and hope I can rework on a room-by-room basis if required
* add more patchboards in my node-I to force a star connection layout knowing that if I have to change systems, everything is acsessible at one location
* forget about the problem, as many system may work on my actual layout anyway!
Cheers - Dave
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