I’m not doing speaker runs. Maybe I’ll regret this, but voice assistants and whole-home audio just isn’t my family’s jam.
Every place I put an outlet, pull two runs
Just about every wall has a jack, minimum two per room
Dual runs for security cameras to at least all four corners of the house; I also have several interior cameras as well
Smurf tube
Sensors for windows & doors, even interior doors
Runs for access points
Runs for hardwired sensors
Runs to utilities (water shut off, power monitoring, water heater, even behind the washing machine)
Runs for water leak detection
A lot of the locations I’m pull cat to are NOT for ethernet, not at the outset anyway. My philosophy is that maybe someday down the line there would be some novel reason to have an ESP32 at the end of the run for a door sensor – until that time, though, wire is wire and I can just use the ethernet cord for a dumb reed switch loop, no big deal.
I’m about to start building and I listed out all 128 runs of cable – highlights:
And here it is in a visual drops location format