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tbclcair
Aug 26, 2022Follower
Purposefully powering off and on a POE switch mutiple times a day
I am setting a camera system, but I need a few of the cameras to be able to be fully disabled. If I have the couple of cameras on a separate POE switch, then I could turn off that POE switch which ...
schumaku
Sep 04, 2022Guru - Experienced User
tbclcair wrote:
... powering off and on a POE switch multiple times a day ...
Bad idea - these are the events the hardware is at risk - much higher risk than operating this kind of hardware 24*366*years.
As suggested before, consider some PoE scheduling, or run some SNMP network action application to disable/enable PoE.
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