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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 8/7/2024 (lemmy.nz)
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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

I know a few people around here are running Home Assistant and the like. I'm keen to put in a few cameras, preferably not cloud connected but that can connect to Home Assistant. I'm planning on adding object detection via coral.

I'm thinking cameras powered by PoE. Anyone got suggestions for outdoor cameras?

What about a switch that outputs PoE and doesn't cost thousands? Maybe something like this? Though I don't seem to see good bang for buck switches where they are all PoE, they seem to just do half of the ports PoE though 8 PoE ports seems like it would be plenty.

And on another note, any suggestions for a network level VPN client? That is, for connecting the home nenetwork to an external VPN server (one that handles hundreds of Mbps, preferably wireguard). Is something like this appropriate? It's CPU is only 1Ghz so I worry it will be slow.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago

From what I've encountered, that CPU will probably be just fine unless it's doing a lot of other stuff too.

I've also noticed that PoE switches that aren't crippled sme how are rare as hens teeth for consumer grade gear. I.e. only some ports, or only support one of the protocols,or are themselves really picky about supply voltage.

My only recommendation is to take the time to figure it all out: and if a fact is omitted assume the worst.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the reply!

From what I’ve encountered, that CPU will probably be just fine unless it’s doing a lot of other stuff too.

I had a bit more of a search around, and it seems this specific UXG-Lite is giving people speeds around 30 or 40Mbps. For a whole of network VPN, that's nowhere near fast enough! I'm looking for 200Mbps, preferably more.

This one claims 393Mbps with wireguard. I was earlier reading that you should look for a dedicated VPN box not a wifi/all in one thing but this seems to be pretty good value for money if it works. I don't need the wifi as I have a couple of mesh access points but I'll take it if it's there.

I was looking at Ubiquiti as the wifi mesh is an Amplifi one but searching around it seems all the Ubiquiti gateways have really bad VPN performance.

I’ve also noticed that PoE switches that aren’t crippled sme how are rare as hens teeth for consumer grade gear. I.e. only some ports, or only support one of the protocols,or are themselves really picky about supply voltage.

My only recommendation is to take the time to figure it all out: and if a fact is omitted assume the worst.

I'm not sure I have the knowledge to figure it all out 😆. How will I know if it's going to be picky about voltage? What PoE protocols should I be looking for, I didn't realise there were options 😆

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