Home Automation

79 readers

2 users here now

Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

Warning: Working with electricity can result in injury, property damage, or even death if it is not done properly. Please keep this in mind while assisting others. If you are not sure about what you are doing, hire a licensed professional.

Rules

No abusive behaviour. This is a forum for friendly discussion; personal attacks will not be tolerated and you will be banned without warning.
Referral/affiliate links are NOT ALLOWED!
NO POLITICS! There are plenty of other communities to discuss them; this is not one.
When posting project details must be included. Posting a video or image without detail will result in a removed post and may result in a ban.
Crowdfunding links are not allowed.
Reposts, low-effort content and karma farming may be removed at the discretion of the mods. Posters may be banned without warning.

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

communick@selfhosted.forum

External cable pass-thru for multiple cables? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by GeoffSim@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I can't seem to utter the right incantation into Google or Amazon to find the right term for a plate/box that allows multiple cables to inside the house to outside - just Ethernet and possibly fiber. Can anyone tell me what it's called, please?

Basically I want to pass multiple external Ethernet cables from an inside wall plate to outside cameras and a shed - up to 6 cables potentially. My present "drill a big hole and pack with wall filler" isn't viable beyond a cable or two.

Thanks.

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] lunakoa@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Just a guess but keystone jacks?

[–] LimeyRat@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Junction box.

Plus conduit, probably, but depends on exactly what you’re going to do with it.

Could be a hole through the wall, with a stub (short piece) of conduit out into the junction box. From the junction box you’d have more conduit or conduits, or glands to weather seal single cables.

[–] Natoochtoniket@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The hard part is outside. Needs to be weather tight. Use a conduit through the wall, into a weather tight junction box on the outside. For each cable, open a hole in the junction box and install a "cable gland". A cable gland is a device that seals around a cable, fits through a drilled hole with a rubber washer, and is weather tight. They sell lots of them on amazon.

Inside, you just have to make it pretty.