Electrical

With the walls being finished I took the opportunity to install my portion of the ‘electrical’…most of it low voltage.

Theater area. One plate is for surround speakers (I believe my labeler is buried right now). One plate is for outdoor speakers. I haven’t upgraded my receiver for 5 years which in electronics world is a long time. Now to my credit, I did look at them a few years back but basically there were no must have improvements made. I took another gander recently and it turns out there are a few key must haves now mow importantly an Ethernet port. This connectivity adds a few key functions….you can access any media on your library or off the internet (yea for Pandora). It also allows you to be able to control your receiver from you iPhone or iPad (Sonos beware). This is a long way of explaining that I should be able to grill on my porch and play music using the amp and sources available in the theater room.

The third plate contains a mother load of goodies. HDMI to the projector, two Ethernet ports (receiver, potentially new Blu-ray player or PlayStation, satellite receiver, and potentially Sonos all require or benefit from connectivity), a coax terminal, and a terminal for signal to the Butt Kickers.

This fancy device is an IR light dimmer. The lights in the theater area will be remote controlled so with the touch of a button we could turn everything on, dim the lights, and start watching whatever. Ok, that sounds great but in reality it’s so I won’t have to get up off my bum to turn lights on and off. See it in action here http://youtu.be/aMkrRnh7olI

Combo Ethernet/ coax. This one is in the drum room (hello eJamming).