Power over Ethernet

So anyway, armed with the knowledge that I might want a Wi-Fi bridge, I might want a point-to-point, I settled on these Ubiquiti nanostations, which can do both.

Beyond that, I also got some PoE injectors, since the nanostations require power over Ethernet.

At the Starlink modem slash router, I don't actually have PoE.

I do have PoE in my office switches, but I actually kind of wanted a PoE just right on the other side of that wall.

I do have a switch I could use for that.

I just get very... protective and rationing and I don't know, I feel like a little bit of a prepper when it comes to certain bits of technology or something.

Like I never want to actually use my PoE switches.

So if I have a nice PoE switch and I know all I want to do is power one thing, I'm not going to use that switch.

So just want to say I'm happy with that.

The other funny one though is I plugged in a new PoE router because we're using a lot of these PoE cameras for home assistant throughout the shop.

Power over

ethernet?

Super nice.

And we've done quite a few of them.

And I plugged in a new PoE switch because you need a PoE switch to inject the power.

PoE doesn't work unless you have a PoE switch somewhere.

A secure gateway.

A couple of other powered PoE or power over Ethernet switches for other items.

I guess other access points down the road.

I didn't necessarily need them right off the bat.

Then there's the extra lights.

PoE.

If the switch supplies power over Ethernet to a camera, a phone, a wireless access point, There's often a separate PoE indicator per port, or a mode where the port lights show power instead of data.

Commonly, solid means the switch is delivering power to that port.

Blinking or amber on a PoE indicator on many switches means a fault.

Overload, a short, a device asking for more power than the switch has left in its budget.

But again, that's vendor-specific.

From my Airbnb in Paris, I have a VPN connection back to my data center in Dallas, Texas.

That's nuts! Now another problem I had to solve was PoE.

Cisco phones require power.

Now I can carry power adapters around with me, but that's kind of heavy.

The other option would be a switch, but most of the PoE switches are kind of big, but I found this amazing small business switch that offers four PoE ports.

So it powers all my phones, no problem.

And then wherever I go, I have my own Wi-Fi, always.

I don't know, seventy-nine dollars maybe, something like that.

And then they have one coming early next year that they call PoE or Power over Ethernet, and so that's a third option for mounting the Home View as well.

So this Home View is very, very exciting to me.

I, uh, you know, it, it's-- And, and one of the things I didn't really get into yet is it's going to be, of course, a smart home hub as well, as you might have guessed, and you're gonna be able to view camera feeds on it, control the thermostat, lock the doors, uh, you know, adjust the lighting just like you can on any other good smart home hub.

But, uh, essentially, you can do sort of a DIY with a, a mounting on a wall and then just plug it in.

You can do a, um, what they advise you to get a professional installer to do, which is hardwire it.

Um, and then the third one is a- actually Power over Ethernet, which is the one that's not available, uh, yet.

So you pick your mounting option, and you can mount this thing on the wall, which is another interesting move by Apple here to give us that option, uh, for people that want to do that.

Yay, that's what I thought from context clues, but I never, I always forget to ask.

Anyway, so, uh, $60 for the- the USB-C version, 80 bucks for the one that actually, um, hardwires into your, uh, your wall, and then there's the, uh, Power Over Ethernet version that'll be coming out later.

That one's $130.

So if you get the, um, wall-mounted one, you could end up spending quite a bit more money on that.