[svandamme]

Let's say you want a house with tv and sound wherever you go, but you don't want to put a frigging stereo set in each room, or a tv tuner/digital decoder in each room where you have a TV...


Wouldn't it be possible, if while renovating a house, to work with fiber optics?

You put all the black boxes in a dedicated place , and you install a fiber optic cable to each room where you need access...

Then with one of them programmable remote controllers, you point to where the Fiber optics thing is, and turn on/off what you want.... then the FO will transfer the IR signal to the IR receiver on the device...

Audio you could for instance always use the same control signal in each room, since the FO would route the IR signal to a different receiver, you could individually control each seperate room with the same signal...


any ideas if this would work, and be practical/reliable??

I might be buying a house next year, and starting to think about what i'de do with it...

another idea is to not have 220v AC everywhere... and have a parallel circuit of 12v dc since many things these days require DC adapters anyway.. and they are bloody taking up more space then i care for... so either you created cabinets for all the junk and cables... or you eliminate the junk... which is what i'm thinking of now...
Lighting, with LED's won't need 220v either...
12dc will also permit for an easier, maybe even cheaper installation of a solar power setup.. no conversion, off the shelf parts...
keep the juice usage low, and maybe use a couple of car batteries for accumulation...

(i don't think the energy companies will keep paying for home production, at least not worthwhile, they are already starting to complain about surges at the end nodes due to home produced energy, and that their networks ain't designed for end node production)