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Hello Cocoon Land! I'm helping out a family member who wants to wire their new house since it's undergoing heavy renovation. Good news is most of the walls and ceiling are open, bad news is we have only a couple days before the garage get's drywalled but about a month to wire the rest of the...

Looking for advice on how to setup a network for two buildings and best make use of resources. Each building has a dsl modem and a mixed environment of windows, mac, and linux machines. Building 1 currently houses multiple nas, a vm server, and several other servers. Ideally each location will...

I'm unable to connect my pim-r via my quatech serial server and was wondering if anyone else has had an issues doing the same.

I'm looking for recommendations and advice on cameras for use in cold weather. It's typical to see temps in the -20's during the winter getting down below -30 to even below -40 some years.

looking for recommendations on an installer in the Orlando area. Have a familiy member who's after adding some automation and cams to there home while they remodel.

So I've been tinkering with this pc for a while now trying to get it back up and running, thought I'd ask the community for some advice. Computer powers on, I can hear the hard drives spinning all the fans are working (cpu, case, psu, and gpu) But there is no video signal detected, no sound from...

Well I ran into a bit of a dilemma, the location I choose for my wiring closet happens to be directly under the washing machine :rolleyes: now I need to come up with a solution by this weekend. Should I move the wiring closet and rerun everything I've done so far? Nearest location is about 20ft...

Well I have two 19in touchscreens I picked up on ebay a while back and have been putting them through there paces. I'll be mounting the first one in a wall in the first floor hallway near the door from the garage, and the second is going in the kitchen or the second floor hallway. My question is...

Has anyone gone through the process of setting up a vga matrix to connect multiple computers to multiple monitors throughout the home?

Which UPB lines offer slave switches for use on wired 3way and 4way circuits?

Whats the minimum distance I would want to run a conduit for low voltage from some high voltage wires? I'm rather limited on the locations I can run a conduit from the basement to attict in my house. If I move an outlet it looks like I can six inches of clearance on the first floor.

I'm trying to plan out what I'm going to need for lighting controls, I'm thinking about going with Insteon. The bad news is the original owners decided they wanted many 3-way switches. In some cases I have 4-5 switches controlling a single light fixture. In one case I have four switches...

I was wondering if a two post equipment rack is sturdy enough to mount heavy server chasis to? Or would I need to go with a four post? This is the rack I was considering, 7 foot network rack I just picked up a 5U case 5U Rackmount Server and it's a bit heavier and larger than I anticipated, I...

Hi everyone!!! Well I've been lurking around on here for a few months now, trying to soak up as much information as possible. My original plans were to build a house and just run most of the wiring I would need for sensors, networking, a/v, etc. Then slowly start adding in all the components...

Wondering if anyone has proposed a wiki before? Seems like it could help many of us newer members find specific information were looking for easier. If it's a matter of time I'd be willing to volunteer my help in anyway I could be useful.

I'm sure this has been covered in detail many times but I'm having a hard time finding the information I'm looking for. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to wire my house to distribute multiple HD sources from a central location to several different zones. I've heard of people using coax...

Has anyone ordered one of these? I'm wondering how well they work. It's a set top box that connects to the internet and streams hundreds of television channels from around the world, not to bad at $199. Curious if one of these could be tied into SageTV or CQC for control, it does list serial...

I was wondering how practical it would be to use a Water shutoff valve if I have a well, would it be just as effective and most likely cheaper to shutoff power to my well pump? I'm about to close on a new house and the plumbing needs some repair work, new well pump, water heater, and some type...