Not wanting to hijack Bryan's thread I thought I'd put a followup to the post I made there.
It turns out I am in the middle of installing another 48v run to solve these problems.
1) I have 1 camera on the east end of our garage facing west. It covers the driveway and overhead doors but I can not see the walk-in door directly below it. I need a second camera on the west end facing east
2) There are no external IR sources for that camera so the number of false triggers at night is so bad I stopped recording then. Need to install a couple of IR sources on that E-W wall (south)
3) There is only a wifi Reolink 'R2D2' in the garage. It works fine but I have been unable to integrate it into my Ubiquiti system well. Need to install a 'real' camera in the garage.
4) On the north side of the garage I have another bullet camera covering the front walk / door. It also has too many night falses due to the internal IR. Need to install one or two IR sources on that wall. I can run pvc conduit high under the eave and bring it from the garage door side, across the front of the garage and then another turn to the north wall.
5)) using that conduit in #4 I want to add a camera facing the front yard. Need at least one more IR source and a camera.
So there are several solutions possible. Some may be better than mine but what I'm doing is:
I am going to run a 48 volt (I actually run 40v) line out to the garage near where the cat5 cable penetrates the wall for the existing camera. Then I'm going to install this:
I bought 2 cases of these obsolete 10/100 Linksys switches for about $.30 ea ($13 for 46 of them). Plenty fast for me and this is the 3rd one I'm using. The other two are in waterproof boxes on trees in the woods. The 48v 18/2ga line terminates here on the barrier strip. The 48v source is about 100' away in the basement.
Here it is installed in the garage
The outside shot
So my solution provides for 4 cameras, 5 IR sources and room to expand using just an 18/2 power feed, a $.30 5 port switch and one cat5 cable.
It may not be elegant but it should work
It turns out I am in the middle of installing another 48v run to solve these problems.
1) I have 1 camera on the east end of our garage facing west. It covers the driveway and overhead doors but I can not see the walk-in door directly below it. I need a second camera on the west end facing east
2) There are no external IR sources for that camera so the number of false triggers at night is so bad I stopped recording then. Need to install a couple of IR sources on that E-W wall (south)
3) There is only a wifi Reolink 'R2D2' in the garage. It works fine but I have been unable to integrate it into my Ubiquiti system well. Need to install a 'real' camera in the garage.
4) On the north side of the garage I have another bullet camera covering the front walk / door. It also has too many night falses due to the internal IR. Need to install one or two IR sources on that wall. I can run pvc conduit high under the eave and bring it from the garage door side, across the front of the garage and then another turn to the north wall.
5)) using that conduit in #4 I want to add a camera facing the front yard. Need at least one more IR source and a camera.
So there are several solutions possible. Some may be better than mine but what I'm doing is:
I am going to run a 48 volt (I actually run 40v) line out to the garage near where the cat5 cable penetrates the wall for the existing camera. Then I'm going to install this:
I bought 2 cases of these obsolete 10/100 Linksys switches for about $.30 ea ($13 for 46 of them). Plenty fast for me and this is the 3rd one I'm using. The other two are in waterproof boxes on trees in the woods. The 48v 18/2ga line terminates here on the barrier strip. The 48v source is about 100' away in the basement.
Here it is installed in the garage
The outside shot
So my solution provides for 4 cameras, 5 IR sources and room to expand using just an 18/2 power feed, a $.30 5 port switch and one cat5 cable.
It may not be elegant but it should work
As I was pushing the ethernet cable into the box I took one last look at the wires. DOH! I reversed orange and orange/white. I couldn't bring myself to do the same on the other end. So I installed the new connector on the ladder, not something I'm real comfy about doing though I am a real hero on my tower with a climbing belt. . .