Only note I’d recommend is add a small laptop cooling pad fan to push air around. Also a simple small desk fan would do well. Heat tends to kill small devices, otherwise looks great
A third option for OTA TV is a Tablo. Not only will it let you watch live TV on your smart phone, Apple TV, Chrome-cast, or most any other media player, but it will also record programs for you to watch later.
You could upgrade your dads setup with a 5.1 receiver in this cool closet. The receiver can be controlled on his phone or tablet with the receiver app. It’s a lot of fun watching movies and tv shows and hear them in 5.1 surround sound. The hdmi cec stuff in the receiver can control the tv without the harmony remote. It does it over the arc and Earc hdmi channel
man. I wish I could do this. This is nice. My fireplace is a full brick that was later covered in drywall with no void or very little between the drywall and brick. Wireless is the only option for me. Great job!
Here's a Good Tip... at 6:23 you have 2 pull lines for future pulls. While that was smart thinking, when you go to pull another cable add a pull line with the cable so you're feeding another pull line with the cables. That way you replace the pull as you pull and will always have a line installed for the future. Also having 2 pulls is always good incase you have a mishap and a line breaks, you always have a backup.
My house is a 1950s UK prefab with steel reinforced concrete exterior walls and directly-plastered cinderblock interiors that turn most DIY projects into minor tunnelling operations. Whenever I see a North American home improvement video where someone simply saws away a section of drywall to reveal the Holy Void behind, I die a little inside as I reach once more for the hammer drill and masonry bits. A few years ago I had similar requirements to this project (TV on a bedroom wall, hardware hidden away) so I just cheated, drilled a 1" hole behind the TV straight through the internal wall and fed all the cables through into the office next door, including power. Not very elegant (and likely not wiring-regs compliant) but it was fast and only destroyed one masonry bit.😉 Wi-Fi has now become so good that these days I just stick a FireTV or similar behind every screen and stream everything wirelessly. Good video though. There's always something very pleasing about seeing a cover plate going on and covering all the stuff behind it.
when I was working in low voltage, we had to substitute our usual conduit for the home depot conduit. The conduit from home depot kept breaking on us and the conduit we usually used had a pull string already fed through.
So, is the thing on the TV an IR blaster or IR receiver? Do they need to point the IR remote to the closet to manually change the volume? I guess, that's where CEC comes in.
It is the IR Blaster. So the remote sends the signal right to the TV. It could use CEC depending on the setup but right now I'm just doing it all through the Harmony Hub.
Adding a light strip on your cables, turns it into a useful tool for looking in the cabanit, and can just make the space look like a vibe. Not something you're trying to hide. 🤷♂️ Just a thought
I thought Logitech had ended the support for the Harmony ecosystem. Am I wrong? Moreover, I have been having some issues with my HDMI switch, as it struggles with HDMI-CED commands - which are quite relevant to control everything with one remote, especially when some remotes are Bluetooth, nowadays. Additionally, many sound systems - especially soundbars - run better and with more code support over HDMI ARC / eARC. Therefore, I would save that HDMI port (with ARC support) for a future sound upgrade. Cheers for the video.
Question when running tube, am I supposed to have separate tube for Ethernet cable, separate for audio speaker wire, separate for HDMI to avoid interference?
Because none of those are high voltage they will all be fine but you may want to if you are planning for quite a few cables. Sounds like you are working on a big project!
They actually recently added a Bose Soundbar and we just had to make some adjustments in the harmony app to get it to work for sound. It is plugged directly into the TV using the optical port.
This was recorded a few weeks after COVID started but mainly because whenever cutting Sheetrock or wood or going in the attic I wear a mask to prevent particles from entering my lungs.
