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Back on the bridge. Installed a raspberry pi zero with amp hat Roughly . Wired to speaker .Also aeotec multi sensors . The low spec Mac aswell as running indigo home automation also runs the squeeze box server . Tested ! Sounds sweet !! ??

Yeah I’m racist against windows based anything . So equally I’ve heard blue iris is really good ; but windows ...... ????

Doesn’t make the choice easier though ?

Hmmmmm DS1618+ seems better !!

Hmmmm with 5 bays I guess 4 for NAS and 1 for nvr ? . As I said if nvr drive fails it’s not completely important ...

Yeah the 1019+ seems like a decent spec ... Need to get my refund on the hikvision first ; but that Synology I think is my number 1 choice .

I do have a Synology nas at home I.e not on my build . Never had an issue with it after 3 years . But more importantly it has 2 transferable Cctv licenses ! . So a small saving there . I think Raid for Cctv is largely pointless though you could do raid 1 just so in the event of a hdd failure you can just continue.

@Thorfun actually why do you have 8 bay ? 4 bays for nas fair enough . Surely Cctv 2 bay would be sufficient? Don’t really care if 1 hdd goes down there . Just trying to keep costs down !

Now that’s a bloody good point !! So with an 8 bay I could have 2 seperate raids on 4 disks one for nas , 1 for nvr ?

Anyone got views on this ? Modern NAS has pretty meaty hardware so is up to the job . My concern is a dedicated NAS largely doing nothing most the time so hdd isn’t busy . A nvr though could be recording continually - with deliberately or through ‘motion’ events so hdd busy boy ! But then I think does that matter ? If I get a 4 bay nas as nvr with shr/ raid whatever - disk failure shouldn’t be an issue even multiple disks at the same time . Had that happen once on a netfear ( lol netgear ) nas ; 2 bay . Both drives failed within a week of each other !! Had the hikvision nvr as stated in another thread - perhaps it was faulty but junk . Looking at Synology 918+ or £££ DVA3219 ( I assume this would reduce number of motion recordings )

Flue Installed I asked him about The air bricks etc. He suggested one with a ‘float’ in - so it’s not just an open draft ..

No idea!. I assume rock as it would require no shuttering to support the hole!. You need to do some ground tests anyway - council would require that. 17.5k. That's to dig out and take away. The guy who dug it out was also an aggregate recycler - so he'd turn the rock into chippings... Yeah of course we do. But my neighbours are all twats and I couldn't get around planning with a 2 storey house (even though all the surrounding houses are ) - underground no one can complain! Get going then!. It's SOME work !!

Anything . I’m musically agnostic

Also I tend to stream from my own music library so radio/internet streaming and staying in sync across multiple devices going to be next to impossible ?

Oh I can imagine. Because I'm using squeezebox and ipeng is probably why everything stays in sync. If you mix and match it's going to be trouble.

Using ipeng you can 'link' two (or more) audio outputs to the same source. So you could play the same thing in different rooms - there is no discernible delay or issue. My pi's have little amp hats - not powerful but fine for the bedrooms. The lounge/dining room will have 2 x pi3's with larger amps.

1 pi tsk!. Multiple pi's one per music zone i.e. bedrooms,bathrooms,hallway,kitchen, office , lounge. Maz2play the best squeezebox player. iPads/iphone's to control via home automation and ipeng .

Hey! I have my basement constructed and it will be a fully liveable area. You need to consider ground structure. We were in solid virgin rock and although council and neighbours bitched it wasn't much of an issue 1100tons from memory. Admittedly I did all the work myself ( apart from the excavation ) - so my costs are rock ( no pun intended ) bottom. The extra space though at extra cost depends on the 'wealth' of your neighbourhood and value of a standard property. I used the concrete lego blocks to build the retaining walls ; with rebar in them and then just one concrete pour for the entire lot. Basement issues as you state will be ventilation - but MVHR solves that anyway. Macerator to pump waste/foul up to drain - no real big issue there. Our kitchen will be underground so yes carrying food/washer/freezer down there will be a pita. I've got a dumb waiter - she's called SWMBO ( don't ever repeat that or I'll be stabbed in my sleep ). Costs?. Depends how much you are willing to do I guess. I presume you are adding a basement to an existing house not building the entire thing from scratch??

Raspberry pi boys with amp hats - getting set for whole house audio

You have no idea how true that is! Bristol council wanted me to comply with SUDS. But their definition meant that the soakaway had to be 10m from a property or a boundary. So it was impossible! How we argued!. I have to pay a fee for something that is impossible to comply with. In the end they used the fee to pay for another condition and to this day my 'build' still has 'SUDs not complied with but no action taken' stamped on it. Their SUDs standard is just a copy/paste to all planning applications. 10m from anything is largely impossible in almost all builds.... Tossers!. I emailed them that aswell ; along with other wording. They seemed somewhat unhappy with that. Wankers

I asked my council for an example and they were unable to supply one .

Right ! That’ll do . I was just worried what’s ‘allowed’ and what isn’t . Didn’t want my sparky having a fit ! ?

Photo to make it clearer .

That’s great for the ensuite as it has a false stud wall . Bathroom is an issue . Bathroom mirror goes straight against plasterboard wall of the room next to it I.e no depth . So I can’t recess a box behind it . There is ‘space’ above the mirror but not for a socket . A terminal block could be ‘pushed’ up there - is that allowed ?

Just getting the cabling through for this into the bathroom . The cable on the mirror is quite short . How will an electrician connect this to the feed cable I’ve put through ? . Does he require a recess socket box behind the mirror ? . Presumably he just connects with a terminal block in the recess ?