CCTV and HDMI nightmare!

leafsta

Good evening those of you who take the time to look at this post

I have a swann CCTV system at home that I tried to network a while back but I couldnt figure it out, so my fallback was to connect the cctv hard drive to a 4 way HDMI splitter which then fed off to different rooms in my house... All was well until recently, when the HDMI cable in my living room bent and snapped at the connection..

Does anyone have any knowledge with this stuff?

maf1970

Replace the broken HDMI cable

leafsta

I wish

Chased in to the wall and run under carpeted floorboards

andy1249

Replacing it is the only practical option really.
Broken HDMI connectors are near impossible to repair.
Individual wire lengths must be identical to within micrometers or it wont work.
Thats why cables must be machine made.

There are “ field termination” kits but they are expensive and have a very low success rate.

maf1970

Carpeting is not a problem. It comes up easily and goes back down as easy. The question is what do you mean by chased into the wall ?

leafsta

Is there a way of attaching a faceplate to the cable?

andy1249

Most hdmi faceplates have sockets either side to plug a HDMI cable into.
Again the issue is wire length tolerance.
It has to be exact and you need a way of testing it, its damn near impossible to cut to length by hand.

Field termination kits are something like this...
DIY HDMI Cable Kit -  from LINDY UK

Given the price and the difficulty of succeeding with these kits I really wouldnt bother, you could probably get someone to chase in a new cable for a lot less.

JayCee

Would have thought that was obvious.
He means it's buried in the wall under the plaster.

outoftheknow

Not wishing to rub salt into the wounds, is the mechanism by which it broke controllable so it won’t happen again? HDMI plugs into sockets are reasonably robust given the normal usage or occasionally moving the device as unplugging or plugging in. If the cables are buried the care around the plug end needs to be multiplied by a factor of heaps - as you have unfortunately found out.

Given the use you could maybe now have another go with the networking using cat 6 which uses connectors you can make yourself if the worst happens.

Maybe open a thread in CCTV to see if you can get the system working without burying more HDMI cables.

cosmicma

any good with a soldering iron or know somebody who is ?

if as stated above the way HDMI leads are wired to the plug is critical maybe you could buy an HDMI cable and cut a piece off with the plug already attached and solder that wire for wire to the end of the existing cable ?