hooking up ceiling speakers/volume control to speaker selector

[helptexas]

Here is what I have:
I have 3 rooms each with 2 ceiling speaker plates, each room has a volume control.
In the volume control box in each room there are 2 speaker (red/black) wires and 1 volume control wire(4 different colors)
In the tv room I have a receiver with a speaker selector box
In the tv room 6 speaker wires come in with 3 volume control wires

Questions:
I do not want to use the wall volume control , do i still need to open each volume control wall plate and hook the volume control wires to the speaker wires (not using a wall volume control just straight hook the wires to each other)

On the speaker selector, do I only hook the 3 volume control wires to it, or do i hook the volume control wires with the appropiate speaker wires to the selector, so each part would have a volume control wire and 2 speaker wires attached

 

[MDS]

The 4 conductor wires go from the source (speaker selector in this case) to the volume controls and then the output of the volume control goes to the speakers it controls.

If you want to disable the volume control, just splice the 4 conductor wires to the 2 pair of 2 conductor wires.

 

[helptexas]

confused

so it sounds like your saying in the volume control boxes in the wall, splice all the wires together. ok, can do

but what about to the selector, only the 3 volume control wires or splice it all together too with the speaker wire coming into the tv room?

 

[MDS]

The three 'volume control' wires coming into the living room are 4 conductors in a single jacket (red, black, green, white), right? Those go to the inputs of the volume controls. There should be wires that start at the volume control location and go to the actual speakers. If that is the case you'd just splice them together - red to red, black to black, green to red and white to black.

The three volume control wires then go to the outputs of the speaker selector.

In the tv room 6 speaker wires come in with 3 volume control wires
By this statement do you mean that in addition to the 3 volume control wires there are 6 other wires that come out from the wall in the living room? If so they could be entirely unrelated to the volume controls or they could be coming straight from the speakers and are not currently hooked up to the volume control at all.

 

[OttoMatic]

Questions:
I do not want to use the wall volume control , do i still need to open each volume control wall plate and hook the volume control wires to the speaker wires (not using a wall volume control just straight hook the wires to each other)

Hi there helptexas,

I might suggest that you just "ignore" the volume control by turning it wide open all the time -- simply leave it at its max and forget about it. Unless you are critically worried about sound quality (and most of us with in-ceiling speaker installations are NOT, at least for those particular locations), it won't make a bit of difference. The "max" setting should create little to no extra resistance in your circuit, and your speakers will get the full effect of the amp.

There may a point in the future when you would find those volume controls valuable, for whatever reason.

Good luck!