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Looks reasonable for a minimum install.  I'd want to have twice as many drops with multiple CAT5 and RG9 cables to many drops but everybody has to make their own decision about "enough". I'm sure there are wireless fanatics out there that say the whole thing is a waste.   As was mentioned...

That will teach me about the dangers of reading Wikipedia which says:     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA/EIA-568   Book learning can be a dangerous thing. But the key point is that it doesn't really matter which is used as long as it's used consistently in your house so you need to make sure...

I'm sure that's why I ended up with missing drops.  They were trying to keep costs within budget and went with an upgraded dishwasher instead of drops in the living room. Dropping an extra couple of grand on cables "just in case" can be hard to justify but it's ugly and painful to not have them...

Running all the coax to a single point, whether it's the demark point or not, is what you want.  As Work2Play noted, ideally you want all the network wiring run to the same spot and you want all your runs to be "home runs" meaning that the cable goes directly from the wall plate to the central...

I suppose it depends on what the contractor means by "run to the demarcation point". For example, in my house all the internal coax and CAT5E wiring goes to a cabinet mounted on a wall the the garage.  On the other side of that wall, both the cable company and the telephone company have their...

I've got an HAI IIe coming next week that, at least in the beginning, I'll be using with Elve to monitor the open/close status of my doors and windows.  Do I need PC Access to do the basic setup or can I do it from the keypad?   I'm assuming that if I start to do more advanced control and...

The price doesn't sound crazy.  I'm not sure if I'd get too hung up on CAT6 vs CAT5e.  If you can get CAT6, great, but it not, it's not a disaster.   What about a prewire for the surround sound speakers in the living room?   I'm not wild about having rooms without network drops. I've got a...

I just like to be able to see stuff on my iPhone/iPad. Things like:   Who came to the door (camera with motion sensing)? Are all the windows closed? Did I leave the garage door open? Did I change the thermostat to "away" before we left on vacation? Are my sprinklers doing what I expect them to...

I don't need or want a "real" security system but my house wired by the original owners when they built it and I like messing around with it. I'm going to monitor my doors and windows because it's fun, not because I need to do it. I currently use a couple of UPB I/O modules to do it but they...

I'm not going to use it for security so a power failure won't be an issue.

I'm going to install either an HAI or ELK controller that I'm going to use exclusively with Elve for all system interactions. Do I need a console to do setup and maintenance or will I be able to do everything over the Ethernet connection? Thanks.

There are not a lot of UPB offerings other than lighting control and basic I/O control, e.g. there's not prepackaged UPB solution for motion sensing. I find that UPB (lighting, garage door and door/window monitoring), Ethernet (sprinklers, IR control using Global Caché, cameras), and Elve works...

Most of my switch clutter comes heavy use of 3 and 4 way circuits in the original wiring. If instead of n-ways, you only wire a single switch for each fixture, you can use a "smart switch" to add n-way fuctionality to each switch. I use Simple Automated UPB switches but there are lots of other...

+1 for EtherRain. http://www.quicksmart.com/qs_etherrain.html 8 zones per controller. I added the rain sensor and use LawnCheck to manage my schedule. One consideration on the install is to make sure that each zone has similar drainage. That wasn't considered when my sprinklers were...

I've converted some of my regular 2-way switches to UPB and I am getting ready to tackle some 3-way and 4-way switches. In general, I don't think I need to keep the n-way wiring as my switches tend to be located in banks so I'm figuring that I'll wire one load switch in a bank and provide the...

I've got a set of Netgear HDX101 units. They are rated at 200mbs but I only get about 60-80mps. It's good enough to stream 720p for my Apple TV. They didn't really work across phases until I added a UPB phase coupler which I needed for my UPB stuff anyway. No sign of any problem running them...

I'll be removing the 4-way and one of the 3-way switches since I have other US2-40s near those two locations.

I'm slowly converting my house to UPB. I've successfully done a few single-pole switches and am getting ready to tackle the living room overhead lights which is a 4-way circuit. I checked the switches and have two 3-way switches that are wired black-black-red-ground and one 4-way switch that...