Outdoor · July 17, 2019
Setting up a patio for football season
There is a stretch of early autumn in Westchester when the weather is better than at any other point in the year, and it coincides exactly with the season starting. Watching the Jets or the Giants from the garden beats the trip to MetLife, and it beats the sofa.
The screen decides everything. Extra-bright 4K displays from SunBriteTV come in models for full shade, partial sun and full sunlight, in sizes from 32 to 75 inches, built to sit outside through winter rather than be carried in each October.
Sound should cover more ground than the screen does. A game runs past four hours and nobody watches all of it standing still, audio across the whole patio and garden means you can follow the commentary while you are cooking or talking, and come back for the part that matters.
Getting the signal out there is the part that needs doing properly. Feeding outdoor screens from indoor equipment means outdoor-rated wiring done once and done correctly, so that changing a channel or the volume from a keypad or a phone works without a trip inside.
We extend Wi-Fi across the outdoor spaces at the same time, using access points rather than hope, because the streaming, the control app and looking up scores all depend on it.
Last is lighting, and it is what makes the space usable after the light goes. General lighting overhead, path lighting on motion so nobody trips on the way back from the kitchen, and a little task lighting wherever the grill is.
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