Hi
I want to be able to control the POE ports (devices) on a Unifi switch so that I (via HA) can toggle power on/off to one of my connected cameras. Does anyone know if the UniFi Switch Lite 8 PoE or UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE can do that?
Or do I need a bigger more expensive switch for that?
No, I don’t have any ‘Lite’ switch sorry, but I guess they should work perfectly fine as long as they are Unifi.
I don’t use any line of code, juste Unifi integration and the devices plugged in on POE switches will automatically be created in Home Assistant as ‘Switch’ that you can turn on and off. Easy !
Juste note a small ‘limitation’ (not really a limitation as it is designed like this) : you can only switch on/off POE ports where are connected non-unifi devices.
For instance you won’t be able to shutdown an Unifi Wifi AP.
That’s a good question… I guess you can but I don’t know it for sure. I’m fully equiped with Unifi for my network (USG, 2 switch, 3 Wifi AP), but I don’t have any Unifi camera, I find they are very expensive for their quality or you can find far more better for the same price.
You will maybe find an answer to this question somewhere on this forum…
In fact with a SW Unfi 8 or 48 Gen2 I can cut the POE (tested on several cam Unifi) but there is always a latency on the switch that goes back and then ends up cutting (Lovelace)
In an automation linked to the alarm it works one out of 10 times. So there is a problem that I don’t know how to solve.
An alternative would be to cut the flow and the led. I’ll test it.
I will also test with a non Unifi POE equipment, but I don’t understand this restriction on Unifi equipment.
Yes, this is my conclusion, you should not cut the power supply via the POE but the network flow. There is something going on in the Unifi integration that has been working less well since Nov/Dec… At the same time the last version of the UDMP and the Unifi controller are not so good.
Everything else about the camera management has been working well for a long time.