POE Protection or Utilization

I heard from Hubitat technical support today. As was suggested by others the real problem is ethernet devices which do not properly test the POE requirement. The really nice thing here is that technical support does respond to questions and the community is a valuable resource. Here is a portion of the response I received. "This is still a problem for current versions of Hubitat Elevation. Some devices are "smart" enough not to send power to non-compatible devices, however we do not have a list of which devices are smart, so you may cause permanent damages if your devices doesn't protect the non PoE clients."

My first Hubitat has been ordered.

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