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PoE is definitely the way to go if you can. Aside from immunity to radio signal jamming, there's no worrying about batteries/charging or ugly wall warts. You c

PoE is definitely the way to go if you can. Aside from immunity to radio signal jamming, there's no worrying about batteries/charging or ugly wall warts. You can also power your PoE switch from a UPS to survive power outages. It's also vendor agnostic and fairly future proof. What I mean is while you might have lock-in with cameras/NVR today, you aren't locked in forever; worst case is you may be forced to replace everything but the wiring, but that's by far the hardest part to do in a finished house. The Cat5/6/7 will be useful for the foreseeable future.

MarkMarine 4y ago
I agree, but I’m having a fun time getting PoE switches that network security will sign off on at work, they are quite pricey. Just a note from the other side, wall wart is 5$ poe is like 40$ a port
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- fomine3 4y ago
  What about Netgear? (I excluded TP-Link for security though it's cheap)
  - MarkMarine 4y ago
    This is for work so the only things that qualify are more enterprise type hardware. I have a MicroTik for my home PoE and it works quite well and it's not pricey.
- scheme271 4y ago
  Using a regular switch and using a POE injector just before the run to the camera is an option. It's about $15 to get the injector. It's not as elegant as a POE switch though.
  - saltspork 4y ago
    Multi-port PoE injectors are a nice option to add say 3-8 PoE ports to an existing switch. More flexible in some ways, I’m using 1 port of my 8-way injector to add PoE to the WAN interface of my router. In conjunction with an active PoE “splitter” on the far end I can remotely power the GPON modem on the other side of the house and power everything from one UPS. I also made sure to get a Mode A “gigabit” injector in order to power 2x PoE cameras in a location with a single Cat6 drop. On the far end there’s just a passive splitter, each camera only gets 2 pairs which run both 100Mbit Ethernet and PoE. Cheaper “non-gigabit” PoE Mode B injectors save a buck by omitting the isolation transformers and instead inject DC onto the spare pairs, so not compatible with pair scavenging. MikroTik’s PoE switches also use Mode B. They’re gigabit so have to include the isolation transformers anyway, presumably this is due to their ability to operate in 24V passive PoE mode. I was going to get a MikroTik switch but my pair scavenging requirements drove me down the path of a separate multi-port injector, which worked out to be a lot cheaper too! 8 port injector with a decently powerful 56V power supply was approx $100 via AliExpress. Only drawback is a bit more cabling and no ability to remote power cycle an individual port.
Spooky23 4y ago
Lol. Try running Ethernet through a door jam.
- goda90 4y ago
  Put the Wi-Fi camera with the built in speaker as the doorbell, and then a redundant PoE camera on the wall in a place where it's easier to run a cable to.
  - 1MachineElf 4y ago
    That's what I do.
- bsenftner 4y ago
  Look into Ethernet Ghost Wire, that is exactly what they do.

MarkMarine 4y ago

I agree, but I’m having a fun time getting PoE switches that network security will sign off on at work, they are quite pricey. Just a note from the other side, wall wart is 5$ poe is like 40$ a port

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fomine3 4y ago
What about Netgear? (I excluded TP-Link for security though it's cheap)
- MarkMarine 4y ago
  This is for work so the only things that qualify are more enterprise type hardware. I have a MicroTik for my home PoE and it works quite well and it's not pricey.
scheme271 4y ago
Using a regular switch and using a POE injector just before the run to the camera is an option. It's about $15 to get the injector. It's not as elegant as a POE switch though.
- saltspork 4y ago
  Multi-port PoE injectors are a nice option to add say 3-8 PoE ports to an existing switch. More flexible in some ways, I’m using 1 port of my 8-way injector to add PoE to the WAN interface of my router. In conjunction with an active PoE “splitter” on the far end I can remotely power the GPON modem on the other side of the house and power everything from one UPS. I also made sure to get a Mode A “gigabit” injector in order to power 2x PoE cameras in a location with a single Cat6 drop. On the far end there’s just a passive splitter, each camera only gets 2 pairs which run both 100Mbit Ethernet and PoE. Cheaper “non-gigabit” PoE Mode B injectors save a buck by omitting the isolation transformers and instead inject DC onto the spare pairs, so not compatible with pair scavenging. MikroTik’s PoE switches also use Mode B. They’re gigabit so have to include the isolation transformers anyway, presumably this is due to their ability to operate in 24V passive PoE mode. I was going to get a MikroTik switch but my pair scavenging requirements drove me down the path of a separate multi-port injector, which worked out to be a lot cheaper too! 8 port injector with a decently powerful 56V power supply was approx $100 via AliExpress. Only drawback is a bit more cabling and no ability to remote power cycle an individual port.

Spooky23 4y ago

Lol. Try running Ethernet through a door jam.

goda90 4y ago
Put the Wi-Fi camera with the built in speaker as the doorbell, and then a redundant PoE camera on the wall in a place where it's easier to run a cable to.
- 1MachineElf 4y ago
  That's what I do.
bsenftner 4y ago
Look into Ethernet Ghost Wire, that is exactly what they do.