So, to explain the layout. The home is already pre-wired for Cat5. Everything runs into a mechanical room on the second story. All of the rooms, including garages, patio, outside summer kitchen/pool area, etc. has ethernet runs to it.
I'd like to add some additional camera's around the outside perimeter of the home. There are two garages on each side of the house, with their ethernet ports.
Is it possible for me to run say 4 cameras from one garage, into a POE+ port switch.
Then 4 cameras from the other garage into a POE+ port switch.
Plug both of these port switches into the ethernet ports in each garage.
Then in the mechanical room, take the corresponding outlet associated with those ethernet ports in each garage, run a patch cable into the back of the 8 Channel Dahua NVR?
Of course, there would only be two cables going into the back of the NVR, not 8 from all the cameras. Would this still work though?
I'd like to add some additional camera's around the outside perimeter of the home. There are two garages on each side of the house, with their ethernet ports.
Is it possible for me to run say 4 cameras from one garage, into a POE+ port switch.
Then 4 cameras from the other garage into a POE+ port switch.
Plug both of these port switches into the ethernet ports in each garage.
Then in the mechanical room, take the corresponding outlet associated with those ethernet ports in each garage, run a patch cable into the back of the 8 Channel Dahua NVR?
Of course, there would only be two cables going into the back of the NVR, not 8 from all the cameras. Would this still work though?
