Re: [Motion-user] Recording Skip

[Barry M. <bar...@gm...>]

Gentlemen (and any ladie):

> No wifi here, all copper, and top shows motion running. 

Here's a question with a probably obvious answer but I'd rather ask and 
avoid 'letting the smoke out'.  Two of the three (current) Motion 
systems are Raspberry Pi 4's,USB cameras, using the 5G WiFi.  The two 
are side-by-side.  What I'm considering is switching them from WiFi to 
Ethernet.

Now here comes the part I'm uncertain of.  Can I use a PoE (extension) 
but (temporarily) still power the Pi's with their wall warts?  I do have 
a PoE Injector rated 802.3af/at and 54v, 30 and 60 W -- if 802.3at = 30W 
how double the output wattage??  Anyway, the injector powers a PoE 
extension with a couple of Pi's on it. I'm thinking of using the 
currently unused port on this extension to power a new PoE extension to 
eventually power the 2 Motion Pi's.

The key word in my question (though I might be running in to a power 
limit too) is can I plug the two Motion Pi's in to the PoE extension 
while still using the wall warts?  I know there are HATs to extract the 
power and data but I'd like to test is wired fixes the glitch problem 
before going to the extra expense.  The price of the PoE extension is 
fine for the test, just the PoE + HATs + new cases is getting up there.

Thanks!

Barry