Whole-home network and audio integration

The Challenge

The home had dead zones in the library and guest house, Sonos kept dropping, and a growing camera count was recording to consumer NAS with no remote access plan. Cabling was a mix of unlabeled runs; adding a new AP or zone required guessing. The owners wanted rock-solid performance without becoming IT managers.

Solution & Implementation

We mapped every drop, installed a UniFi Dream Router + aggregation switch in a clean 6U rack with proper power and cable management, deployed U6 APs (including a mesh backhaul to the guest house), and integrated UniFi Protect cameras with appropriate retention and remote access via the UniFi OS console. Sonos and Bluesound zones were tuned with QoS and separate IoT VLAN considerations. We delivered a laminated one-page house network map, labeled every cable and patch panel, and left a simple homeowner runbook plus digital files in their chosen vault.

Key Technologies

Outcomes & Documentation Delivered

• ✓Dream Router + APs with site survey-based RF plan — full coverage indoors and guest house
• ✓Integrated Sonos/Bluesound multi-zone audio that survives firmware updates
• ✓Labeled rack, patch panel, and every cable; clear diagrams for future work
• ✓UniFi Protect with sensible retention and documented admin access
• ✓Homeowner runbook + digital packet so any future electrician or AV tech can understand the layout