Hi all,
I am new to this site. Years ago I was fairly active on the Worthingon Distribution forum until they made it accessible to only people in the trade, so glad to find this site. We are building a new house and nearing the end of the wiring phase. The house is 3500 sf with 4 bedrooms, great room, rec/media room and home office. I am pre-wiring for basic security/automation/technology. Unlike our previous house (which had miles and miles of LV wire in it - a significant amount never used) I am trying to hard-wire only the more critical components and will rely on wireless technology for non-vital systems. My current plans/infrastructure are as follows:
So, that's where I'm at right now. I'm hoping some of you might want to chime in with some input on what I might be missing, what might be overkill, and any mistakes I may be making. A couple things I will need to figure out sooner rather than later are which wired water sensors work best to trigger a zone in the Omni and which POE IP cameras will work best as both stand-alone camera as well as integrating with the Omni, so any advice on those two questions in particular would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
I am new to this site. Years ago I was fairly active on the Worthingon Distribution forum until they made it accessible to only people in the trade, so glad to find this site. We are building a new house and nearing the end of the wiring phase. The house is 3500 sf with 4 bedrooms, great room, rec/media room and home office. I am pre-wiring for basic security/automation/technology. Unlike our previous house (which had miles and miles of LV wire in it - a significant amount never used) I am trying to hard-wire only the more critical components and will rely on wireless technology for non-vital systems. My current plans/infrastructure are as follows:
- Radio Ra II lighting control (will start with it in the great room, master suite and certain paths, and expand from there over time)
- HAI Omni or OmniPro II controller
- Water shutoff valve (Elk?) - which will be hardwired to the Omni
- 22-4 to laundry room, behind built-in fridge/freezer and behind dishwasher for water sensors hard-wired to Omni
- 22-2 to garage doors for contact sensors - all other doors and windows will be wireless
- Cat6 to potential keypad locations to accommodate Omnitouch panels (main entry, garage entries (mudrooms) and master bedroom)
- 22-4 to outdoor temp sensor location (since it's an easy integration to the Omni)
- Cat6 to soffits where exterior IP camera will be located
- Cat6 to doorbell location for video doorbell
- Cat6, 22-4 and Lutron specific wire to two locations at roughly each end of the house to accommodate WAPs, wireless security expansion and Radio RAII repeaters
- 16-2 to the header of all windows where shades will be desired (going with Somfy RTS as Lutron is too expensive)
- RG6/Cat6 drops at each television location as well as to the home office and possibly one in each of the bedrooms
- Home theater room wired for 9.1 surround sound and for potential future projector and drop down screen
- All wires except home theater are home run to a nice sized mechanical room where there is plenty of space to place the equipment and work on the systems
So, that's where I'm at right now. I'm hoping some of you might want to chime in with some input on what I might be missing, what might be overkill, and any mistakes I may be making. A couple things I will need to figure out sooner rather than later are which wired water sensors work best to trigger a zone in the Omni and which POE IP cameras will work best as both stand-alone camera as well as integrating with the Omni, so any advice on those two questions in particular would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt