Building new home

[TheE]

We are in the dry-in phase of our new home.

I have already ran flexible ENT tubing to each camera location within the exterior wall.

For the interior, if we wanted a few in-wall tablets (tablets with an ethernet port) thoughout the home to view what's happening and to have them pop up BI alerts when they happen, what low voltage should we run to these in-wall locations?

Thanks in advance for any input recommendations!

 

[Virga]

I'd run two copper ethernet cables to every location - I like a spare.
I prefer Cat 6 or better, because construction and installation is hard on materials, and the plastic spine in the cable provides additional strength and tolerance of cable handling.
These days everything seems to run on ethernet, and you can get quite a bit of power over ethernet.
Of course best to check power needs of the kinds of tablets you have in mind and confirm whether ethernet cable will support it.
Can't hurt to run 14 awg romex too, though you may never use it.
I ran quite a few ethernet drops to walls in my then-new construction a few years ago, and wish I'd run ethernet to many spots in the ceiling also.

 

[TonyR]

Regarding the CAT-6 cable, insure you use solid (not stranded) copper (not CCA/Copper Clad Aluminum) with a jacket rated for the appliaction which in this case would likely be CMR (Riser) for use in-wall, ceilings, floors, between floors, crawl spaces and attics. You can use the more expensive CMP (Plenum) where Riser is warranted but not the other way around....no R where P is required.

Lastly, I recommend using the thicker 23AWG CAT-6 if possible in any instance where a large power budget POE device is located an excessive distance (but not beyond the max of 100m/328 ft.) from the POE source.

 

[mat200]

We are in the dry-in phase of our new home.

I have already ran flexible ENT tubing to each camera location within the exterior wall.

For the interior, if we wanted a few in-wall tablets (tablets with an ethernet port) thoughout the home to view what's happening and to have them pop up BI alerts when they happen, what low voltage should we run to these in-wall locations?

Thanks in advance for any input recommendations!

Welcome @TheE

When wiring I prefer the N+1+ rule .. run one extra cat5e/6 cable to each location.

Do review your placement options for non-mobile IP devices, .. ( I prefer all static emplaced IP devices to run off cables in general .. TV, game stations, stereo, PCs, media storage, IP cameras, NVRs .. )

 

[The Automation Guy]

For the interior, if we wanted a few in-wall tablets (tablets with an ethernet port) thoughout the home to view what's happening and to have them pop up BI alerts when they happen, what low voltage should we run to these in-wall locations?

I will say that for wall mounted screens, tablets, etc, it is much more important to run power to the correct location (directly behind the screen) that it is to run a network cable. Although depending on the device you want to use, it is possible that a network cable would provide both network and power (via POE). They make POE dongles that can power most devices that use USB (or other low voltage) connectors even if the device itself is not designed to get power from a POE network cable. That being said, you may want to run a regular 120v outlet to the location in addition to any network cables. As long as you can charge/power the device, there is a pretty big chance you could always use WiFi for the actual network connection.

 

[bp2008]

I should point out you can get adapters to convert PoE power to USB at 2-3 amps which should be plenty to keep any tablet going. Even an ipad if you wanted to go the apple route.

https://amazon.com/dp/B07KCLGB5D

So you could run most tablets with just an ethernet cable.

For maximum future proofing though, see if you can run conduit. Big conduit. Like an inch and a half at least if possible (depends on house layout of course). That way you can run new cables any time.

 

[mat200]

I will say that for wall mounted screens, tablets, etc, it is much more important to run power to the correct location (directly behind the screen) that it is to run a network cable. Although depending on the device you want to use, it is possible that a network cable would provide both network and power (via POE). They make POE dongles that can power most devices that use USB (or other low voltage) connectors even if the device itself is not designed to get power from a POE network cable. That being said, you may want to run a regular 120v outlet to the location in addition to any network cables. As long as you can charge/power the device, there is a pretty big chance you could always use WiFi for the actual network connection.

yes, Power is super important.

Spend the extra money running extra separate lines .. my kitchen circuit breakers trip too often as too many sockets sharing the same breaker.
( toaster oven and microwave .. )

Also, I really like metal gang boxes after dry wallers pushed in the plastic ones in one job site I worked at