Help with camera and wireless setup

[didithepest]

Hello,

Let me start by saying I am completely new to Ubiquiti and I am trying to get everything in order before I start the installation. I am trying to improve WIFI service in my home to include a detached garage approximately 50 feet away from the main building. My current ISP is Verizon FIOS and the provided gateway sucks. I am also running several IP cameras Hard wired to the Cisco switch. I will be installing another POE switch to the detached garage and need help choosing one that will power everything.


I have the following:
1x Ubiquiti USG (main house)
1x Cisco SF300-24PP POE+ switch (main house)
3x Ubiquiti AP-PRO (2 main house) (1 Detached Garage)
2x Ubiquiti LOCO M5 (1 main house) (1 Detached Garage)

1x Ubiquiti Network POE 48v Adapter (POE-48-24w-g) for AP-PRO in Garage

I be connecting one of the LOCO M5 to POE (switch) which then be connected to one of the AC-PRO via Ubiquiti Adapter to provide power. The reason for the switch in the detached garage is because I will also be running IP security cameras and need the extra ports.

What would be a good POE+ switch that will power two cameras (dahua non PTZ) the loco M5 and AC Pro ?






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[Kawboy12R]

Ubiquiti uses their own POE. It's not 48v, so any POE switch you get for cams won't power the Locos. The other gear I haven't used but make sure it's not 24v Ubiquiti-only POE. The Locos come with their own injectors though so that's not a big problem. Just be careful mixing and matching your Ubiquiti gear with 802.3af and 802.3at (48v industry standard POE and POE+).

And which cams do you want to power? If the extra power is not needed then I'd just go with a POE switch, not POE+. Most of the "regular" Dahua cams don't need POE+ unless they're PTZ or are a high zoom bullet with extra powerful IRs. After saying that though, I've got a Linksys LGS108P gigabit POE+ switch at home running a bunch of stuff at the moment that doesn't need POE+. I had one cam that needed POE+ but swapped it out. Decent sale on it at a time I needed another switch so I replaced my Zyxel ES1100-8P with it as an upgrade. The Zyxel is probably my favourite desktop 8 port 10/100 POE 802.3af switch though. Full power budget, metal case, no wall wart or inline power brick, and rear ports for clean desktop cable management.