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Thank you!! We are blown away on how many custom builders we have around us that don't pay any attention to what there AV guys/ Security company is even running in the home and why! We all know that streaming everything is getting more and more common as the main source for entertainment in homes today. Not sure why people who build houses overlook this! Lol

We primarily use Lutron and Screen Innovations for motorized shades. They both have there own power supply that will do a single shade or a power supply that will do up to 8 shades.

Yes. Go Cat 6 as it uses thicker wires making it safer if you run PoE over them. Cat 6 cables will support 10g speeds up to 55 meters.

Sure. We have a few video’s using Josh.ai for voice control. We even have a few of Alexa voice control through a Elan control system.

You do still have a few options. You could go with a slim soundbar style center channel that wouldn't raise the TV too much. You could put the center in the ceiling if the ceiling isn't too high. If you went this route, there are several companies that make a flush mounted speaker, but with adjustable drivers and tweeters to aim down to the listener. You could always custom install your center channel in the mantle depending on the speaker and how your mantle was made. If you look at James Loudspeaker in the gallery, you'll see a few examples of this using there soundbar style speaker as a center channel or a left, center right soundbar.

If you are using Savant, I’m not sure. If you were using a house wide music system, it would be a keypad from companies like Russound with there 6 & 8 zone systems. We use ELAN control systems and they have a custom configured keypad that is 5 buttons. It’s ran with a single cat6 cable for data and power. ELAN also has 8” touch panels that would be a “keypad” as well. There are also on-wall chargers for iPads from iPort ran with a Cat6 as well. They did make flush mounted in wall versions, but discontinued them. I’m guessing you are using Savant for house-wide music as well? If so, I’m not sure what they offer for keypads or touch panels. Are you doing Lurton lighting? If so, they have some keypads that you can program music favorites with lighting and motorized shades. Hope this helps!

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Sounds like you maybe doing a 4x4 matrix. Make sure you run Cat6 from TV location to the equipment location. We like to use Wyrestorm mostly for video distribution. The next thing to consider is how far the runs are from the TV to the equipment and what are the sources that's going through the system. If your trying to get high quality 4k to pass through, pay special attention to all the different HDMI receivers specs. Different baluns ( receivers ) have different specs based on distance for 4k. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching!

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If we are doing a video matrix, then we typically use a control system to control all the sources from the TV locations. We use ELAN, but you could actually also do it with an IR/RF remote system from URC.

We will use one panel for low voltage RG6 & phone lines. The electrician will have his panels and the security panel will be in another panel. We like to bring in all the wire for the Audio, Video, Network, & cameras into the rack. If we do motorized shades, we will bring those into the rack as well depending on the brand of shades we are doing.

Typically the rack is at least 20-24" deep by 21" wide with side panels. The height depends on how much equipment and spacing you do with the rack layout.

If you don't know the brand of shades you are doing, you may want to run 16/2 & a cat6 cable to each shade location. We pretty much use the same companies for shades, so we just run cat6 to the shade location. At least now, there are a few really good companies that make great wireless shades just in case. Lutron, Screen Innovations and Somfy.

Where are you building? What’s the sq ft of the home? Do you have an idea of what you want to wire for or how you want to control everything?

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@@GreatChoiceAudioVideo great. Building a custom home in Waxahachie. If I emailed you the Construction Documents could you give me a price on the pre-wire? I want everything you just went over. We plan to do a pool in the future a few years down the line and would like to plan for that ahead of time with pre-wire.

Its a speaker wire that’s made to run inside of walls.

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For the shades and camera drops with the Cat6 cable, we typically do a small loop and zip tie it for future. Unfortunately for the cables you run for the shades, those will just stick down until you do the shades. You would also loop those and zip tie them. We typically come in from the top of the window. If you don’t want the wire sticking out at the window locations, you could also do the wireless version of SI shades or Lutron shades if that would bother you until you put the shades in.

We prewire for shades and either stuff them behind the sheetrock above the window trim and measure carefully and record using video and pictures of exactly where the wires are located. Also we have used 3/4" security prewire caps that are flush with the window top (if you are doing an inside mounted shade). Also, dont run just a 14/2 to your shades, its not usually enough conductors. Run at least 1 Cat6 to each window, but even better, run what the manufacturer will certify. For example Lutron and Crestron have their own special shade wire which is a 18/2 pair for power, and a 22/2 pair for a databus for their shades. There are also 3rd party wire manufacturers that are cheaper than using Lutron or Crestrons branded wire and its still up to spec. Shades are expensive, dont screw up and use something cheap or the wrong amount of conductors. Also, when you prewire for shades notate on which side of the window the wire is, so that when you order the shades, the motor will need to be located on that side for neater, cleaner wiring.