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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

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Device to connect to speaker wire? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So this house I bought had a ridiculous whole-home audio system wired thusly:

RCA -> whole home device -> Cat 5e-> wall mounted device in every room that connected cat5e and speaker wires for in ceiling speakers

I have cut all that out and used the existing cat5e wires to run ethernet to every room in the house. However I have not used the speakers for anything.

I am looking for an in-wall device that can connect to and amp the speaker wire, then wifi or ethernet into the network (or at worst bluetooth) and has microphone input for HA assistant.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Are you sure the unnamed devices weren’t using Ethernet?

Didn’t you have in-wall devices for this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe this? https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=36375&utm_term=&utm_campaign=PMax+%7C+Extra+25%25+Off&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&hsa_acc=6614305189&hsa_cam=20500619984&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3uGqBhDdARIsAFeJ5r26UXsWLupvp8VS-Z03txXC9w9WVptPiatpAyQW0RgYZQZrawZ0uBwaAsQIEALw_wcB