gwenie

Hey lilfeets! I passed your email over. He shd be contacting you soon. Cheers!

actually... they are supplying the same DVR as mine and according to my friend, there's no "special upgrade" for this brand of DVR. All of them supports iphone viewing, even the old MPEG4 models. Looks like you has had it from them. The market rate for 4 cameras with the DVR + installation should not cost more than $1400. Looks like you had it bad.

Cat5e. here's what his words: As our house cabling is extensive, we got phone and data and that totaled up to 16 cables going underground and in order to keep the ground height low, only 1/2 inch pvc tube are used and that is pretty squeezy for the cables. If cost and floor height (or cabling is concealed in the ceiling) is not an issue, of course by all means go for Cat6. The 200mhz cable standard and spline within the cord helps to keep the cable from crosstalk effects. And not forgetting that we are stepping into the next generation of internet connectivity (opennet), it will be pushing the cat5e to their best performance at gigabit rates. Using cat6 gives more allowance for even higher performance than what opennet can do... (Although i seriously doubt we be even hitting 50% of what cat5e is capable of... LOL). Realistically speaking, it doesn't make any significant difference to your everyday's facebooking and pp video streaming, be it cat5e, cat6 or fiber. Check your network card, i doubt it will even be a gigabit card. A cat5e can handle high constant 100base data traffic flow, the slowing down is caused by your PC unable to handle the 100mbps gush, not the cable. A box of cat5e goes for about $90 for 1000ft. Cat6 goes for double.

Let me ask him, i let you know asap.

Thanks! It's at Bishan.

Teck Seng at Kaki Bukit sells the vinyl materials. I have a graphtec plotter at home and we always go there buy the supplies and come back plot and cut and paste ourselves.

Hi mshary, My hubby is the one that pre-laid the data cables. To answer your questions: 1. Each location point comes with 2 x cat5e or cat6 wires, 1 for data and 1 for telephone. You have to decide where do you wish to install the router/switch. - You can pull all the 1 pair of cat5e from each point, all to your study room, and the main telephone line (coming from outside) also into your study room (so u can connect your singnet modem) and also the SCV point into your study room (for MOL cable modem). Thats what we did. But there's alot of methods so it really depends on your own preferences. 2. We used the following gadgets: MOL cable modem, Linksys wifi router, 16port linksys switch, "3 CO - 8 EXT" PBX box for telephone switching. 3. Contractor won't know much about it. They know how to place out the wire for you to terminate the ends for sure, but if ask them about setting everything up, maybe they not so into this. My hubby is the one that instructed them to leave the wires out from the walls/ceilings and he terminated it himself. 4. My cablings goes underground and in the L-boxes. Using pvc & flexi tubes. 5. For opennet, nothing much you can do. It depends on where they are going to enter the wiring from outside into your house. For ours, we want them to come in via the existing SCV cable's hole and since from the inside, it's covered by our carpentry, we need to pull the wire out for them first else there's no way they can pull in except to drill another hole at the living room and my opennet socket will be placed at the living room which is not what we wanted. 6. DVR is Digital Video Recorder. It is used for CCTV recording only. Media Server are those small PCs that can output videos/pictures/musics/web into your TV using HDMI/RCA/S-video cables. And you can network the media server into your network so you can use the media server to install the video streaming software such as pptv and have it output into your TV directly to watch rather than on the small monitor. There are 2 different machines. We havent got the media server yet but it is easily available in ebay for less than 300sgd and also in SLS. Thats why we laid data cable for every room's TV point. All shows can be seen in each room! AC Ryan, nope, never heard. There's simply too many similar product with different names. Always rem, cctv stuff all from china. haha. They tell you taiwan, but check out their parts' sources, all from china.

Hi mates! My friend who installed for me (refer to my reno t-blog thread posts #27 & 28 for pics) is asking if there's anyone who wants to fix cctv? If anyone is interested, let me know and i ask him for quote ya? Cheers! Gwenie

Hi wd88, i wish to join in with 2 sets of F100 too. But your pm box full. Thanks. Regards, Gwenie

We got it from Teck Seng hardware as mentioned by airstriker. hubby said Fire-rated doors dont need special door closer as there's no sisir approved stickers.

BEWARE! GUARD DOG ON PATROL!

Roses are red...

This is our front gate with 3D roses.

Here's our 5.1 theatre system from AV-One at the Plaza Singapura... We luvve the iphone white looks... The amp from Onkyo and the 3 round speakers The round subwoofer... The 2 ceiling mount speakers... We got it from the offers. http://www.av1group.com.sg/offers_morel.html

To cater for future. We reckon we will need it when we have a kid in future. In fact, alot of ppl installed once they employed maids but that's gonna be troublesome to have the cables concealed. So better to have the cables run concealed first. We recommend those doing renos to think about it and run the cables and hide it in the false ceiling or L-box first. When need, then cut hole pull out and patch back.

The pool dining table...

Here's the DVR set. Brand is Impaq H.264, according to friend, this format is the current standard as it is smaller in compression size and clearer than the previous MPEG4 compression format. So we can record more days with the same quality and a 500GB hdd can goes as far as 30-40 days. And the iphone app snapshots in vertical and horizontal view...

We have installed 4 ir dome cameras for the living room, kitchen, study room and corridor. Here's some snaps of the cameras. Study Room cam. Living Room cam. Kitchen cam. Outside corridor cam and the opennet fiber optics cable coiled outside...

Here's a shot on my hubby's cable management for the whole hse. Top shelf: - Incoming telephone line (unused as we are using the scv digital line), connected to wall socket at top left just in case we need to apply for a telephone number next time. - below the phone socket is an empty socket which my hubby pulled the new optic fiber for Opennet (our area's schedule is 2012 then start cabling.. sob sob*) and coiled it outside our flat. He said must get ready else next time cannot pull into our cabinet already. - below the opennet socket is the SCV modem. - to the right is a linksys wireless router - above it, the existing scv points got 2 incoming cable from outside, so we splitted it out to hall & 3 rooms. - 1 network cable is linked from the linksys router to the switch at the lower shelf. Bottom shelf: - The left is a PBX device that will enable intercom between all phone sets within the house. It comes with 3-incoming lines and 8 extensions lines. - To the right is the linksys switch that will share our maxonline connection to the rest of the house. - we have laid phone/data points in hall, kitchen, toilets, rooms, balcony and tv-consoles (in mbr & hall) so we can use the media servers next time to view streamed movies.

Thanks!

my fren helped me fix it in my home during renovation by laying the cables concealed. he said there's pretty much bad points about using ip cams, such as high cost, heavy hdd usage, resource hogging since it uses program from your pc to interface to the ip-cams. It seems that fixing the wired version of the cams with a dedicated DVR is better, cheaper and still can use iphone to view outside, not bad. It costed me about 1K inclusive of the cablings, 4 cams with the red ir lights that can see in complete darkness and DVR with 500gb hdd. I checked around and seems that its a good deal compared to the 2 other quotes i got, both about 1.3K+. And they said needs extra charges for concealing somemore. So nonsense since it will be my ceiling contractor plastering the holes that needs to be cut.

Yup. the paint won't hold on evenly to the laminate. You see ugly patches all over, unless you willing to paint primer layer over it first, and then maybe 2-3 coats of your desired colors, then maybe still can make an even color. Why not ask carpentry to re-do just the door with a new laminate of your choice? It gives it a fresh feel.

Our bedroom2 design... And here's the kitchen final completed looks...

Display window for study room with an one-sided mirror (not fixed yet in this picture)... Display window inside view. The TV-console area (forgot to take the pictures during installation progress...) here's the finished product. The display window exterior finished... The final done up display cabinet with my hubby's collection displays in it.

With most of the critical stuffs done up... next is the carpentry items to fill up the place! Firstly with the study room as my hubby needs to work in it... Up goes the top-hung cabinets... Customised table top for 2... Pasting the laminates over...