This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Weather Station Project #22 - Added a PoE Switch to the network to support some RPi projects
I went out over the weekend and purchased a 8 port Gigabit switch with 4 PoE ethernet ports on it. My goal is to use this switch possibly in the attic in the future where I can run ethernet wires through out and use the power from the PoE switch to both power and connect the outputs to my home network. I am already using it to power the Gertduino/Raspberry Pi Solar Radiation/UV sensor so that I will not have to use the injector; clutter catcher that it is. When I do get to the point of connecting the Solar Radiation/UV sensor up, I am planning on setting up a pan/tilt camera mounted next to it for weather pictures.
