Power a POE cam and a Wyze cam off of one POE run?

TheWaterbug

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So the OwlCam is up the tree, and I have a POE Lorex camera peering into it from the side of the box. If an owl ever moves in, I might want to mount a little Wyze cam under the eave, to capture motion events when the owl parents arrive with prey.

Wyze cams want 5 V on micro USB, and AFAICT they're not 12 V tolerant.

POE supplies 12 V if I use a POE extractor or if I do the 12 V diode hack to pull it out from the camera's 12 V port.

Does anyone know of an all-in-one, 2.1mm-to-micro-USB-with-12V-to-5V-converter thingamajig?

The 2.1-mm-to-micro-USB adapter cables exist, and the 12 V to 5V voltage converters exist, but I don't want to have a contraption that I'll have to wire together, waterproof, and then mount 20' up in a tree.

I do have a POE extractor that is settable for 5 V, but then I won't be able to power the main Lorex camera. I don't want to run another cable up that tree.
 
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