IP Camera via Powerline

Hardware
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Hi,
I have a powerline around the perimeter of my yard for lights and other things. I’d like to install IP security cameras and was looking at poe ip cameras. i dont have or want an ethernet cable in my yard so i was thinking of takinf Powerline (IEEE1901) instead.
Now per camera i would need an Powerline access point, and a poe injector. Id probably want to stick all of that into a weatherproof box and the camera on top.

Now I’m thinking im not the first person to have this idea and was wondering if anyone knows of all of this in one device. Hook up the mains and in the camera you’d have the Powerline Lan endpoint, camera power supply and the camera.
I havnt found anything like that though.

How have you managed to put wired cameras up around the house?

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So you want to use Powerline for networking a camera?

Umm, it’ll suck tremendously but if its what you want.

  1. Use 2 powerline ethernet adapters, the types with power passthrough
  2. Plug one end where you want your camera to go to
  3. Plug in an injector
  4. Plug that into the PoE camera
  5. Plug one end of the network cable into the Powerline adapter and the other into the injector
  6. Plug the other Powerline adapter end near your switch
  7. Connect the cables.

edit: spelled wrong werds

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Not really.

I have several cameras and 4 of them are connected via TP-Link powerline adapters.

They work really well most (almost all) of the time. Maybe once or twice every couple of months one gets squirrely and drops off and I have to reset the connection which is basically unplugging and re-plugging the powerline adapter. So I don’t use them in places that aren’t easily accessible like the camera at the peak of my roof.

They definitely save the wifi bandwidth for things that need it and I have no issues running any 1080p cameras over the connection. As long as your main connection point to the router has enough bandwidth to talk to them all.

I use 300’s (I think - maybe 150’s?) for the individual camera connection and a 1200 for the trunk connection.

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I also have some unifi cameras in the gardens on poweline (gigibit ones) and they have been rock solid. I have the powerline adapter, and POE switch in a waterproof box and then network cables to the cameras

TP-Link AV1000