Useful Gadget of the Week: These PoE Splitters Power Non-PoE Devices
I’m all in on PoE. It’s incredibly useful and the combination of our UniFi switch plus the opportunity to run Cat6a around the house has…
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Loxone Nano DI Tree Brings Switch Freedom to Your Smart Home
Loxone “Tree” Reduces Smart Home Wiring Requirements by up to 80%
Useful Gadget of the Week: 19-Inch Rack Vertical Wall Mount Bracket
New Mains Sockets with Built-in Powerline Technology
HDMI & Component CAT5/6 Faceplates
Crestron Release Free iPhone App
Adding a Bathroom Zone to Sonos Whole House Audio
Home CCTV Server
New UK Building Regs. Will Outlaw DIY Wiring
Part P of the UK building regulations is intended to reduce accidents due to bad wiring. The new Regulations that are due to come into…
Testing Ethernet
Submission by Seggy T Segaran The TestNET is a handy Ethernet checker. If you have a CAT5 socket which in theory should have Ethernet, but…
UK Home Automation Wiring Guide
The downloadable version of the on-line Automated Home UK Wiring Guide. Save yourself sometime by downloading this and extracting to a folder on your hard…
Atlas CAT5 Cable Tester – Review
My good mate Darren has the “Daddy” of all Cable Testers. It’s a Fluke something-or-other and it’s amazing! It can ping IPs, generate network traffic,…
BT HomeNet
The way we use our homes is changing. Inside the front door, we are surrounded by ever more electronic appliances – PCs, modems, TVs, video…
IEEE 1394b
The latest IEEE 1394b standard-compliant products will be demonstrated by Texas Instruments, January 8-11, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. TI’s 1394 devices…
Krone Blocks
I’ve just added a few pictures of the Krone Blocks James Hoye and I used to terminate the remainder of the control cables round the…
The Most Cabled House in Britian?
Is this the most CAT5 cable in any UK house? Tracey Gardner has run over 7 Kms (yes Kilometres) of CAT5 in his new house!!…
James Hoye Loses CAT5 Virginity
“The first task was to pay Transco to move the gas meter. It cost just over £200 to do, and it is now situated on…
Blackburn Cablefest Writeup
I have completed the write up on last months cablefest in Blackburn, this also includes details of a smashing tool to help pull cable through…
DiLAN
NEW YORK, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ — ITT Industries, Network Systems & Services (NYSE: ITT) announced today the launch of the DiLAN solution — the first…