The FINAL Tour of my Flat's Home Network & Smart Home Setup!

In this video we take a final look at my home network and smart home installation in my flat before I have to rip it all out and prepare to move! This will summarise all of the projects that I have done over the years into one complete tour to show how everything works together. If you would like to find out more about any of the projects shown in this video, there will likely be a video on my channel showing it in full detail!

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:04 - Hallway Comms Cabinet
02:48 - Network Switches
06:06 - Blue Iris NVR
07:05 - Office Server Rack
09:55 - TrueNAS Server
10:38 - Proxmox Server
11:35 - PDU & Old Servers
12:14 - Ruckus Access Point
12:58 - Living Room AV Cabinet
13:51 - HDMI Distribution System
15:37 - Living Room Speaker Setup
16:20 - Smart Home Design Philosophies
16:58 - In-Wall Touchscreens & Home Assistant Dashboards
19:17 - Physical Light Switches for Smart Bulbs
22:29 - Smart Lighting Demonstration
23:51 - Hallway Smart Lighting
26:35 - Texecom Burglar Alarm Integration
28:15 - Nest Thermostat Controlled by Burglar Alarm
29:03 - Conclusion

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[marksapollo]

Good luck with your move Cameron, your network is so neat. Looking forward to your videos of your new network build in your new home.

[CiscoPhipse]

GREAT Video - Cisco Professional Network engineer here 🙂
I have a rack at home too, so it's very interesting to see what other people are doing.
I have ethernet running around the home to a patch panel and for devices not that important wireless.
For data, I leverage the cloud as you have to balance the cost of running all that kit with the cost of paying for cloud storage.

[StasWright]

Put the Patch panel between the Switches and use 6 inch or 1 foot patch cords. It doesn't look as pretty, but much easier to trace wires. For home networks where you are the only one in the cabinet it doesn't matter much, but for remote offices where you don't always know who's going to be in the data closet it's a huge help to be able easily trace cables. BTW: Very Nice setup.

[labbiee]

The different colours of patch cables are so delightful! Its making me want to get a keystone patch panel instead of terminating into standard rj45s and bringing them through a brush panel!

[MRPtech]

Your light switch setup is awesome. This gave me so many ideas how i can get mine done. Thank you

[Fisherism]

Thanks mate for the nice video. You have a solid networking setup!. Its so nice to see real networking gear and not the usual Ubiquity/UniFI crap from other channels.

[trident]

Nice tidy setup....you love a switch or 3 don't you 😂... looking forward to see what's planned for the new home.

[BrennonBaxter]

I love your touchscreens used in your smarthome. Do you have a brand or model that you can point me towards?

[xurok]

Love your channel man, can't wait to see what's next in the new place. Love from France.

[littlebluedinosaur]

Would love to see a dedicated video on how you set up the touch screens

[Chris-ycmm]

That shelly thing seems like a great way to do smart lights

[Leebobs]

Great video and looking forward to seeing what you do in your new house!

[Hpokndrak]

Hehehe, I have one of those data cabinets... ZPAS are amazing... i "found" it for 100 gbp in London, a few years ago. I lied, I actively hunted for one of these, after seeing another youtuber with one, and i just said to myself... I want That..

[cyberneticwarmachine]

Can't wait for a new home tour in the new house! Good luck with the move. Also that HDMI utp thing, super neat, but can't find any info on it?😅

[graham]

Can’t wait for you new set up and home tour, ,

[paulhyland]

How do you configure your shellys to trigger power with loss of automation? I have a similar setup with pro 2s but im triggering the power. I know you can go into distached mode but defeats the object of having a fail safe when losing ha. Id loike to get smart lamps like your setup to control intensity/colour. Look forward to seeing the new house install!

[kelvinfleuty]

Have you got a link for the 4inch touch pad?

[DozIT]

Well done! The only nit-picky thing I see is the switches are daisy-chained creating a 'waterfall' effect. If the primary switch goes down, or gets updated it will take the second switch offline. In an enterprise config we'd use an aggregation switch as primary, providing an uplink to each switch independently. In your case, I recommend just using the other available SFP port on your Opensense.

Obviously high availability likely is not your top concern in this network, and network switches are pretty damn reliable!

[mikescott]

All very nice. May I asked what the APC smart PDU model is? Good luck with the move and new build.

[SBBUK]

How much did you pay for these switches? Had a quick look and the prices I found are pretty mad for SMB kit. I want to replace my 2.5gb and 1gb switches with a single unit but there's nothing really that affordable that does POE. Closest i've found is the Zyxel XMG1915-18EP.