PlaidSheep
New Member
The house:
The POE cameras themselves seem pretty simple. Drill a large hole into the eave for the RJ-45 and a few smaller holes to mount the camera. I'm guessing a standard five port POE switch from a quality manufacturer is fine. I can mount that near an outlet in my attic and probably not have a camera run longer than 50 ft. Then, I just run a single RJ-45 from the switch down the inside of a wall into my office and the QNAP box, right? Is there any reason to doubt such a setup could handle traffic from four 4k cameras running 24/7?
I'm grateful for any hardware suggestions - switch, Cat5E vs 6, etc. - or installation ideas. I've an electrician I can use for the basic wiring, but I'd like to handle the rest. I could see a professional installation easily doubling my cost.
I'll research software before I start a post for guidance there.
Thanks-
- New construction, 1500 sq ft ranch
- Your basic rectangle, short sides are the front and back
- 10 ft ceilings indoors
- My initial thinking is a camera on all four corners
- Camera views crossed slightly inward
- No views down the long walls between neighbors
- I'm looking at Axis POE cameras, though I've no idea which model(s) yet.
- I've got a six bay QNAP NAS with an i3 and 8GB of RAM I'd like to use for storage
The POE cameras themselves seem pretty simple. Drill a large hole into the eave for the RJ-45 and a few smaller holes to mount the camera. I'm guessing a standard five port POE switch from a quality manufacturer is fine. I can mount that near an outlet in my attic and probably not have a camera run longer than 50 ft. Then, I just run a single RJ-45 from the switch down the inside of a wall into my office and the QNAP box, right? Is there any reason to doubt such a setup could handle traffic from four 4k cameras running 24/7?
I'm grateful for any hardware suggestions - switch, Cat5E vs 6, etc. - or installation ideas. I've an electrician I can use for the basic wiring, but I'd like to handle the rest. I could see a professional installation easily doubling my cost.
I'll research software before I start a post for guidance there.
Thanks-