Ranting about PoE Support

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@mccoart

Thousands of Posts. I never even bothered to search the forums for "PoE hubitat" but I just did and it returns hundreds of of threads with thousands of posts.

Didn't take me too long.........

PoE and the C8 (with extensive testing)

In the hope that it will be useful to others, I thought I'd share my testing of the C8 powered via PoE. There have been many references to issues when powering C7/C8 units using Unifi switches, but it should be understood that these issues are not specific to Unifi. My main switches are Cisco CBS 350s (192W), and while I had no issues powering C7s with inexpensive lightweight PoE splitters, the C8 has been a completely different story. FWIW, I've also tested with a dedicated Trendnet PoE switch…