Multi Room HDMI Transmission

[xplicet]

Hi,

I though I would share in installation I am handling for a friend. A newly built house and the requirement was for full HDMI transmission to 4 different rooms and along with DVD and some RF DSTV signal.

Fortunately I was able to start from planning stage so that all security and AV systems had conduit and power planned. This house has NO visable cabling or trunking, there is conduit for EVERYthing.

I will post some pictures up as we draw to the end of installation to give you an idea. We are using the following equipment:

4 x HDMI Cat5 Balun converters
4x2 HDMI matrix switcher with IR remote
4 way HDMI splitter
RCA vid & audi to RF modulator
IR RF Remote blaster kit with RF batteries
way SLX f-type
RG6 Cable
Cat5E Shielded

5 x LCD TV's
X BOX
Blue Ray Player
DVD player
Old dual view PVR
HD PVR
Sony home Threatre
Pioneer home Theatre

Exciting stuff for me, wish it was my house!!

 

[Wasp_21]

Excellent stuff. How far is the roof? I ask, because i too planned conduit throughout the house for TV, sound set-up, and internet. HOWEVER, when they placed the roof trusses, all but one conduit for internet line, was covered by the roof trusses. So pointless in the end.

 

[xplicet]

House is all closed up already. Most of the conduit was chased in late on the build, for some reason they prefer to do that. We had a very difficult time with the pull but it is all done. I specified 25mm conduit with good draw wire but the sparky but in 20mm and weak draw string. Was a serious challenge as conduit runs were complicated and we had to pull 2 x CAT5 STP + RG6 per 20mm pipe !

 

[bdt]

House is all closed up already. Most of the conduit was chased in late on the build, for some reason they prefer to do that. We had a very difficult time with the pull but it is all done. I specified 25mm conduit with good draw wire but the sparky but in 20mm and weak draw string. Was a serious challenge as conduit runs were complicated and we had to pull 2 x CAT5 STP + RG6 per 20mm pipe !

"good help these days" hey? Bumzilla is on a similar headrush, he should come here and watch and learn.

 

[TonyA]

Interesting. When I built my present house I planned for each bedroom, foyer and lounge to each have TV access, Phone and Network. The floors between bedrooms and Lounge area are stressed concrete. It is a triple story house with bedrooms on 2 nd level and lounge/living area on 3 rd level (to maximise view). I was shortsighted in that I only ran RCA cable and Cat 5 between bedrooms, so now do not get HD in bedrooms. Based on OP was wondering if could place HDMI converters on spare cat 5 cable and thus use network cable to get HD in bedrooms. Is this possible and what would I need. Many thanks

 

[Juggy]

Interesting. When I built my present house I planned for each bedroom, foyer and lounge to each have TV access, Phone and Network. The floors between bedrooms and Lounge area are stressed concrete. It is a triple story house with bedrooms on 2 nd level and lounge/living area on 3 rd level (to maximise view). I was shortsighted in that I only ran RCA cable and Cat 5 between bedrooms, so now do not get HD in bedrooms. Based on OP was wondering if could place HDMI converters on spare cat 5 cable and thus use network cable to get HD in bedrooms. Is this possible and what would I need. Many thanks

You can use HDMI to Cat5E converters. What I understand is that it's the preferred medium for longer runs of HDMI. Probably just a few powered HDMI to Cat5E converters would do the trick.

 

[xplicet]

Interesting. When I built my present house I planned for each bedroom, foyer and lounge to each have TV access, Phone and Network. The floors between bedrooms and Lounge area are stressed concrete. It is a triple story house with bedrooms on 2 nd level and lounge/living area on 3 rd level (to maximise view). I was shortsighted in that I only ran RCA cable and Cat 5 between bedrooms, so now do not get HD in bedrooms. Based on OP was wondering if could place HDMI converters on spare cat 5 cable and thus use network cable to get HD in bedrooms. Is this possible and what would I need. Many thanks

You can use these. http://www.hdcabling.co.za/single-c...0-meter-720p1080i-hdcp-12-hdmi-v13-p-286.html
Its more common to use the 2 cable versions but considering you only have one available go for this.