POE is something that you don't ever see in some bigger businesses let alone homes. A POE adapter still needs to be plug in an external power supply. POE switches cost a lot of money.
OwnerofDevices Maybe not in average homes, but easily within the realm of the prosumer. I know people that spend 5 digits just on the control systems for their AV setup in their homes.
Businesses use Roku devices as well, many of which POE for their phones if not other devices.
POE switches can be rather inexpensive, I can get smaller switches with POE for under $100. I own 3 POE switches in my home and power 4 $100 Wifi access points and other devices with them. I currently have 14 active POE Ports in my house and are really useful to power all manner of home security devices and IOT devices. I use several POE splitters as well to power lower powered hardwired network devices that aren't near power and/or that I want powered through my network UPS.
Yep! I myself have a Unifi 8-port PoE+ switch (US-8-150W). That's the most expensive part: it was $200. That runs to some peripheral rooms, where I have PoE-based 4-port switches ($20 a pop) to split the signal. The beauty of these is that unlike a typical 4-port, there's no power brick. Same PoE switch also powers a nice AP via PoE as well. All of this is very solidly in the realm of prosumer. The only thing I would need to do if the Roku was PoE-enabled is swap one of the 4-port switches that powers my AV stuff for a more expensive PoE pass-through 4-port switch as the little guys won't to do that.
Thank you helloisme for validating my postulating. Yup, that Ubiquiti Unifi gear is pretty legit prosumer gear and pretty inexpensive for what it offers.
Haha! Sure sure. I'd actually never heard of PoE until I went down this route a while back. Then suddenly a whole world opened up to me: there was in fact a solution for needing a 5+ outlet strip for everything and having a ton of power bricks everywhere. PoE makes everything so much neater. Everyone manufacturer seems to insist on having different sizes, capacities, wiring, there's no interchangeability between them. PoE is simple though: as long as your device works with the standard your switch supports, you just plug it in, and forget about it. I'd love to see PoE become more ubiquitous
Your, home is really unique. I own one smart switch that I paid maybe $75, for with 8 ports gigabit.
OwnerofDevices That is one person's opinion. Perhaps I and others use different technologies than you do. After all, I didn't start this thread. Just because you are personally not familiar with using POE in a fairly average prosumer home setup does not mean that it is not done, or even becoming popular at a prosumer level. There are entire companies that are built on providing low cost POE switches and devices for their prosumer and small business customers at amazingly low prices.
