I'm new to this whole PoE camera thing, but have read a ton of threads here as well as the wiki. What I realized I never figured out is how best to bring all the CAT6 cables to the NVR.
My place has attic access, so my plan is to run CAT6 through the attic directly to the spots on the exterior where the cameras will go. So once that is done, I should have around 12 CAT6 cables (six locations for cameras with two CAT6 terminals each for redundancy) that then need to make it to one of the rooms in my house and connected to the NVR.
How does one bring so many cables down into a room without creating a huge hole in the wall? I figure the NVR or switch would be in one of the bedrooms being used as an office and would be sitting on a desk, so it seems like all these cables would have to come down to the bottom of the wall and then get extracted so they can be hidden behind the desk as they run up to the NVR.
I spent all this time daydreaming about where to put the cameras and how I'm going to run the wires that I completely neglected to think about the other end.
(edited to reflect my lack of knowledge of Blue Iris...)
My place has attic access, so my plan is to run CAT6 through the attic directly to the spots on the exterior where the cameras will go. So once that is done, I should have around 12 CAT6 cables (six locations for cameras with two CAT6 terminals each for redundancy) that then need to make it to one of the rooms in my house and connected to the NVR.
How does one bring so many cables down into a room without creating a huge hole in the wall? I figure the NVR or switch would be in one of the bedrooms being used as an office and would be sitting on a desk, so it seems like all these cables would have to come down to the bottom of the wall and then get extracted so they can be hidden behind the desk as they run up to the NVR.
I spent all this time daydreaming about where to put the cameras and how I'm going to run the wires that I completely neglected to think about the other end.
(edited to reflect my lack of knowledge of Blue Iris...)
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