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Nor did I. But I bought a PoE switch for my garage and installed one near my Front door, two pointing at my driveway, and one pointing at my fence door. PoE i
by sliken 7y ago
Nor did I. But I bought a PoE switch for my garage and installed one near my Front door, two pointing at my driveway, and one pointing at my fence door. PoE is just cat 5 cable, it's considered "low voltage" so you can just run it where you need to. It's much easier than trying to running normal power, which you'd need to do for a wifi connected camera (unless you want to regularly replace batteries).
It's a nice clean mount, I just use the template, drill a 1/2" or so hole for the PoE cable, and then 3 screws to finish the mount. It looks nice and clean, works great, never runs out of power, and is never impacted by the random Wifi issues.
Sure it's a pain to run cat5 everywhere, but I haven't found a better solution, none of my camera locations had power.