Hi there,
I'm new to the forum and a home automation virgin...... Hello!
I'm in the process of buying a new house that was built 3 years ago and has been wired with cat 7 cables. Up until now I was completely oblivious to home automation and had never heard of cat 7 before. But a few Google searches later and I'm a little more informed but still need some help with next steps. So hopefully someone on this forum can point me in the right direction?
The house has 2 cat7 cables to every room as far as I can make out, all of which terminate in a "node zero" in a downstairs cupboard. However, there is no distribution unit(?), no face plates in the rooms or any connectors. There's also a hd satellite feed (2 coax) and a bt socket in the node 0. It also appears the house alarm is all wired to this point too (again, separate 6 core cables are all routed here but not connected to anything).
So, my questions (finally I hear you say!)....
- what "distribution unit" do I need? I've read some stuff about baluns and other components. Can I just get away with one "unit" (whatever that may be?)? Or is it more than this?
- can I run phone, Internet and sky hd thru the two Cat 7 cables? Or do kneed one cable for each of the sky feeds? Or one cable for sky hd and one for phone & data?
- finally what connectors/face plates do I need? I suppose the face plates depend on the answer to the question above?
I have seen three way splitters to split phone data and tv from one wall socket... So is this the best way to go?
Apologies for the lengthy post and for the millions of questions but I really am a novice on this but a quick learner! So any help or advice would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jamie
I'm new to the forum and a home automation virgin...... Hello!
I'm in the process of buying a new house that was built 3 years ago and has been wired with cat 7 cables. Up until now I was completely oblivious to home automation and had never heard of cat 7 before. But a few Google searches later and I'm a little more informed but still need some help with next steps. So hopefully someone on this forum can point me in the right direction?
The house has 2 cat7 cables to every room as far as I can make out, all of which terminate in a "node zero" in a downstairs cupboard. However, there is no distribution unit(?), no face plates in the rooms or any connectors. There's also a hd satellite feed (2 coax) and a bt socket in the node 0. It also appears the house alarm is all wired to this point too (again, separate 6 core cables are all routed here but not connected to anything).
So, my questions (finally I hear you say!)....
- what "distribution unit" do I need? I've read some stuff about baluns and other components. Can I just get away with one "unit" (whatever that may be?)? Or is it more than this?
- can I run phone, Internet and sky hd thru the two Cat 7 cables? Or do kneed one cable for each of the sky feeds? Or one cable for sky hd and one for phone & data?
- finally what connectors/face plates do I need? I suppose the face plates depend on the answer to the question above?
I have seen three way splitters to split phone data and tv from one wall socket... So is this the best way to go?
Apologies for the lengthy post and for the millions of questions but I really am a novice on this but a quick learner! So any help or advice would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jamie
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