What "Tech" do you have in your house?

[weeboot]

Just because I'm nosy/interested and often get told that I've got too much "Tech"...

Sonos Bridge and 2 x Play:1
Hue Bridge & 3 x Full Colour bulbs
2Tb NAS
Dell Laptop
iPad
iPhone
55inch Smart TV
Sky HD
xbox 360
PC (3 monitors)
2 x Raspberry Pi
1 x Gigabit Switch
2 x 100Mb switch
1 x VDSL Router
3 x Powerline Ethernet

Fully expect that to get trounced in mere minutes.

[Ste1987]

What you've got seems reasonable.

I do like my tech, but what I've got seems not a lot:

2x desktop PC's (where the majority of my tech-spending goes)
Windows 10 tablet
Samsung Galaxy s7 Edge
Samsung 43" SMART TV
2x Polaroid TV's, one being used as a PC monitor
PS3
Wifi camera for watching the chinchillas

And that's pretty much it

[maccas99]

Off the top of my head in no particular order:

CAT6 throughout
24 port GB POE Switch
Sonos Play 5
Sonos Connect
Denon AVRX-2200W
Kef T205
Roku 3
Panasonic Plasma (old)
Shuttle PC running Plex etc
Raspberry Pi
Ubiquity Access Point
Ring Video Doorbell
Synology NAS - 1 x 2TB Desktop and 1 x 8TB rackmount
Sky HD (freesat mode)
Infra-Red blaster
Sony Blu-Ray player
iPhones
Android Tablet
Windows laptops

Oh, and an alarm to keep it all safe :-)

[ashleyman]

If we're talking computer tech then I've pretty much got an Apple Store in my house!

1x 5K 27" iMac - top spec everything with 32GB Ram.
1x 27" Thunderbolt display

1x 15" MacBook Pro
1x Asus Windows laptop

3x Apple Airport Extremes
2x Synology DS215 Diskstations (8TB in one, 4TB in the other)
1x G Raid Studio 12TB
1x Netgear Switch
2x Powerlines
12x Lacie Rugged 500GB

1x iPad Pro
2x iPad Mini Retina 2
2x iPhone 6 Plus
1x Apple TV Gen 3

2x 50" 4K TV's
1x Samsung Surround Sound System

Plus about £30,000 in professional camera and studio equipment.

Edited by ashleyman on Tuesday 12th July 14:01

[InductionRoar]

A mangle.

[AJB88]

Google/Nest Thermostat
Google LG Chromebase (upgraded from OEM spec, includes Apple Wireless mouse)
Google Acer Chromebook
Google Huwaei Nexus 6P
Google HTC Nexus 9
Samsung Galaxy S6 (Missus)
BT HH5
Coolead M8S Android Box
Humax Freesat HD
Raspberry Pi


Recently got rid of:

Apple Airport Extreme + Openreach modem (wish I had kept it now)
Sky HD

[Type R Tom]

Optima Projector with 120” screen
40” Samsung
40” Sony
26” Sony
HD DVD player
BluRay Player
Chromecast
Firestick
Sky HD

PS3
Xbox 360
Wii

21” HP Android Tablet (in kitchen used as juke box / iplayer / recipes)
10” Samsung Tablet
Sony Xperia Z2
Windows Phone

Sony 7.1 amp
Wharfdale 7.1 speakers
Rotel Amp
Kef Floorstands
Pioneer CD recorder
Cambridge Audio CD Player
Sonos Play 5
Pure Evoke Flow

Custom PC
24” monitor

Fully wired CAT6 with router / switches
Plusnet fibre
And a load of old stuff I really need to sell!

[rednotdead]

maccas99 said:

Off the top of my head in no particular order:


Ring Video Doorbell

How are you getting on with this? Is it as good as the website makes out? I'm quite tempted but wondered about the lag between the bell being pushed and your app going off.

[tankplanker]

Networking:
BT Fibre Modem
Custom build micro PC running PFsense as the firewall/vpn provider
3 * Linksys Business 18 Port 1Gb Smart Switches
3 * Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT
4 * ZyXEL PLA5405 1200 Mbps MIMO Powerline Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
2 * QNAP NAS, one with 6Tb of usable and the other with 9Tb of usable
5 * VMs running on the above
Various bits of Cat 5e between the above

Home Entertainment:
55" Panasonic Plasma
32" LCD (main bedroom)
3 * 24" LCD (other bedrooms)
Arcam AV350
3 * monitor audio radius 250hd
Monitor Audio Gold Sub
3 * Xbox 360
1 * Xbox One
1 * PS/4
In the loft: Limited edition Saturn, Dreamcast, n64s, etc.
4 * Nvidia Shield - 16Gb Models with 32Gb SD cards (I've also a few firesticks and chromecasts that I'm not really using at present)
2 * Harmony hubs

Home automation:
1 * Philips Hue Hub
1 * Smarthome Hub
1 * Openhab hub
24 * Phillips bulbs etc.
6 * Phillips wall switches
2 * Philips clicker switches
2 * Wemo wall switches
Nest Thermostat
2 * Nest Smoke Detectors
6 * Fibaro FGMS-001 Motion Sensor (does temp and light as well)
4 * Fibaro magnetic door sensors (just the main doors)
Kettle with timer for turning on brewing
Bean to Cup coffee machine with timer

PCs:
2 * 13" Macbook Pros
~7 * Laptops, about two in actual use, should sell the others
4 * Tablets, from Note Pro 12.2 to Nexus 7s.
4 * Personal phones (another 2 work ones), all android

[gavsdavs]

In the loft
4 fanless, external PSU, Atom-ish based PCs (64 bit, 4/8Gb Ram, 750Gb/1Tb root disks)
- Fedora - firewalling
- Fedora - DNS/DHCP/Proxying
- Fedora - Fileserver - ~20Tb Storage in 10 external drives in 2xDAS501T jbods), running Serviio, apache, sabnzbd)
- Win 2003 - AD Auth, Printer sharing

16 port 1Gb switch (about 10 ports live)
Internet Router
2 conventional modems
Wireless Access point on seperate segment.
4 port KVM.
15 inch TFT.
Always on - inside about 180 watts running off a UPS.
Serial consoles all round.

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Elsewhere in the house

A popcorn hour, a video streaming Bluray player (aren't they all these days), a Smart TV.
A Shuttle desktop (running windows 7 most of the time and OSX if I have to support the inlaws)
A Windows 10 laptop
An ancient windows 7 laptop
An ancient Macbook Pro
A newer macbook pro

A number of tablets and mobiles.

[Voldemort]

Airconditioning
Electric blinds
The shower head lights up from blue, pink, to red as the water gets hotter
An electric hoist to get st in/out of the attic

[maccas99]

rednotdead said:

How are you getting on with this? Is it as good as the website makes out? I'm quite tempted but wondered about the lag between the bell being pushed and your app going off.

We absolutely love it and couldn't be without it now. It's essential for deliveries and visitors for when you are not in. There is the occasional lag as you describe but this is mainly down to our front door being solid steel (Hormann) and affecting the Wi-Fi signal. I was considering putting in an additional access point but just as I start planning on doing it the issue goes away. I think it's related to the battery running down in the doorbell unit itself. This is obviously solved by hard wiring it to the power but we don't have that option.

[rednotdead]

maccas99 said:

We absolutely love it and couldn't be without it now. It's essential for deliveries and visitors for when you are not in. There is the occasional lag as you describe but this is mainly down to our front door being solid steel (Hormann) and affecting the Wi-Fi signal. I was considering putting in an additional access point but just as I start planning on doing it the issue goes away. I think it's related to the battery running down in the doorbell unit itself. This is obviously solved by hard wiring it to the power but we don't have that option.

Good to hear. We too have a solid steel Hormann, but an access point just behind it. How long are you getting out of the battery?

[shirt]

InductionRoar said:

A mangle.

bloody luxury!

[anonymous-user]

Dell All in one PC
Dell Ultrabook
Seagate 4TB Network drive
TP LINK SME Router
Netgear R6300 as access point 5Ghz
Sitecom 300mbps Wireless n as access point 2.4ghz
Samsung 40" LCD
LG 27" LCD
Hitachi 32" LCD
Kindle Paperweight
Rotel Pre Amp
Rotel Power Amp
Denon DAB/ FM tuner
Meridian 206B CD Player
Arcam Black Box DAC
Acer Aspire One Mini PC (used for music)
Goodmans sound base (Excellent piece of kit)
Sony HD/ DVD Freeview recorder
Samsung Freesat Box
3 x NOW TV Boxes

My wife has some squashy thing that makes a rasping noise in her top drawer

[daemon]

HP Envy 13 i7 Laptop
2x 9 year old Dell D620 laptops, in use, using one as i type (both on Win10 and with upgraded RAM and SSD drives)
Samsung 10 inch tablet
Apple iPad 2 (wifes)
2x HP Work Laptops
Dell Desktop
24 inch LCD Monitor
Epson Printer
1 label printer - dont need it but i like them
55inch 4K Samsung TV
50inch Plasma Samsung TV
32inch LCD Samsung TV
SKY HD
Xbox One +2TB external drive (XBox One S on order)
XBox 360
Nintendo Wii
80w Sony Soundbar
4x Wifi extension Boxes because of the shape / makeup of the house
2x Google Chromecast
Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Neato Robot Vacuum Cleaner
All rooms zoned with digital thermostats
Underfloor heating zoned per room
2x Nuaire Drimaster home ventilators
Solar Thermal panels on roof
25KW Biomass Wood Pellet Burner with automatic auger and 10 tonne pellet bin primary heat source
50KW condensing oil burner secondary heat source
1000 litre thermal store
Raspberry Pi monitoring status of Biomass burner and texts me if theres a problem with it (coded it myself)

Edited by daemon on Tuesday 12th July 21:45

[mike9009]

Uh oh...

Nexus 7
Acer Aspire S7
Lenova MIXX
Old HP laptop (cant remember model)
Old Packard Bell desktop
Acer 21" monitor
Ipad 1
Ipod touch 16GB
Ipod classic 160GB
Ipod nano 2GB
Cheap Android Tablet
Home built I5 HTPC
IPhone 5C
Nokia 830
Nokia 920
(plus some other older phones I cannot remember going back to 1997)
ZX Spectrum
ZX81 with 16k RAM pack
Raspberry Pi
PlayStation 1
PlayStation 2
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo DS 3D XL
Pioneer BluRay HT set up
Panasonic 40" Plasma TV
Panasonic HDTV set box recorder
Old Sky box
Talktalk wireless router
LG 32" LED TV
Bush 19" TV and DVD
Kitsound Chorus soundbar
Kitsound Hive
Ruark Vita R4i
4 random cheap cameras (Canon SX220, Cheap Nikons etc.)
Canon EOS-M digital camera
2 x Portable DVD players
AIWA music system
Hubsan quadcopter
Baby monitors (x2)
Garmin GPS cycle computer(800?)
Garmin vivosmart HR
+ drawers full of random cables, chargers, USB drives, hard drives, graphics cards, Motherboards, batteries, memory, memory cards, random music players, old car stereos, solder, connectors)

Probably some stuff I have forgotten .... I really must have a clear-out at some point....



Mike

[gpb1]

10 TVs (50", 47", 32", 27" plus a few 19")
3 monitors
Nest Thermostat
3 Energenie power sockets
8 Philips Hue lights
5 IP Webcams (all streaming live)
White MacBook 13" (acting as a media server with 10TB of external drives attached)
MacBook Pro 13"
MacBook Pro 15"
3 Apple TVs
2 Google Chromecasts
IPad Air2
IPad Pro 9.7 plus Apple Pencil
2 IPhone 6
IPhone 6S
2 Amazon Kindles
11 Raspberry Pis (mixture of 1B, 2, 3 and Zeros running as webserver, home automation, digital photoframes, internet connected doorbell etc etc etc)
Virgin Media Tivo
2 Sky HD boxes
Wii
PS3
Xbox One
Philips DVD recorder
JVC VCR
Yamaha Receiver
Tannoy Speakers
2 Broadband connections (Virgin Media 200 Mbps and BT 8Mbps)
3 telephone lines
3 TP-Link power line adapters

Edited by gpb1 on Wednesday 13th July 09:13

[tdm34]

Jvc RS10 Projector.
Sapphire 106" Electric Screen.
Panasonic TX58DX902 4k TV.
Yamaha DSP-Z11 11.2 A/V amp.
OPPO BDP105 Blu-Ray player.
Panasonic BWT735 Blu-Ray Recorder.
SKY-Q.
Yamaha CDX993 CD player.
Yamaha TX761DAB Tuner.
KEF Reference 104/2.
KEF Reference Center 200.
KEF Reference TDM34DS.
KEF Reference 101/2.
KEF Q8s.
REL Storm.

Panasonic FZ28 Digital Camera.
Panasonic TZ30 Digital Camera.
An old Medion PC.
An old ASUS Laptop
iPad


And that's just the living room.....

[anonymous-user]

SOOOOOOO confused by half the stuff in this thread, although it is a very interesting read. Good idea for a thread

What's CAT6 cabling?

And this home automation stuff - I'd love lights and things to come on as I walk in to various rooms. Is it straightforward with a HUE type system?