[mythtvnz] OT: Cat5e sharing phone and audio - any issues?

[Noel & Di]

Matt
For the UHF RF I chopped up the Lexcom balun patch-cords to utilize 
their 50 - 100 ohm balun - Not HD I know but works well - the lead with 
an IR socket (LCHLTVIR) was most usefully for using an IR receiver via 
the cat 5 back to the myth box... The  "AV" cable carries the audio from 
sound card on the green pair(L,R screen-common) phone on blue, AV the 
orange pair and IR on the brown pair . The "DATA" cable has ADSL on the 
orange & green pairs (1,2,3,6), brown pair connects to switches (at each 
TV) to remote-on the router & AV distribution amp via a latching relay 
at the patch panel, so we don't have to run the whole works 24/7, 
leaving the blue pair spare for a rainy day. 
In the first part of our house we ran RG6 and a cat 5, starred to the 
wall outlets - was OK.... then I discovered the Lexcom cable & installed 
2 runs to each wall outlet.... thinking I should maybe have done three 
runs - or would that have been overkill?  But anyway it all works well 
and overall more flexible with being able to change things around.  On 
the BIG TV we feed the audio into the TVs AV in  and use it's own 
speakers. For the projector (shot out through the multifold doors to an 
outdoor "screen" AKA convenient wall) we use the stereo system, & pop 
the speakers outside.... then watch everyone that was dancing fall over 
when you have a rotating visualization running with the music!
Have fun
Noel.

Matt Poff wrote:

> Cheers. The mp3 streaming solutions look good but don't work for me at 
> the moment as I don't keep a server running in the house 24/7 and 
> don't want to plant powered-speakers everywhere. When I do want to 
> stream audio I can do that at the moment with an Airport Express and 
> laptop.
>
> So I'm thinking I'll still do a couple of runs of the Lexcom (one for 
> Gigabit Ethernet, the other to share phone and ... whatever may come 
> along). I'll add in a run of 4-core 14AWG speaker cable (the longest 
> run is 20m but to low Ohm outdoor speakers). This guy does a 50M roll 
> of cotton yarn insulated cable for $160:
>
> http://www.dynamix.co.nz/index.html?VS=p&G=CA-1450-2&P=&ID=5260820
>
>
> Cory's does the Lexcom for $1.87/mtr trade so I reckon a couple of 
> runs of this and the audio should be pretty good future proofing...
>
> yuri wrote:
>
>> Don't bother. Run some high quality speaker cable instead.
>> Coax (RG6) is not too expensive so you might as well throw some of
>> that in as well - future proofing.
>>
>> Alternatively, you could get an ethernet music player that plays mp3
>> files streamed from a server. (eg SliMP3 - google it. There may be
>> others too)
>>
>> Yuri
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