Soldato
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@HungryHippos That is handy your TV is right behind that wall. Yeah you could go straight through the wall there then and not need to remove skirting at all. It might be a little fiddly trying to fish the cable from the lounge side to the back wall of the cupboard though but my install was all fiddly as I was doing it on my own. If you made a back box size hole on each wall you could have someone shine a torch and maybe reach in to grab the cable rod or cable. My cable rods have a magnet you can attach to one end which is really handy with some of the other gadgets in the set.
With regards to getting the cable to the loft, that is a good idea to run it externally like that. Most of it will be completely hidden too. I think I understand what you want. A switch in the loft that takes its power from the ethernet cable itself? You can get such a device but I must say I don't know much about them so hopefully someone else can chip in and answer that (or you might need to ask outside this thread). I think a netgear GS105PE is the device you need but I am not 100% sure.
I have a switch with 4x poe ports that can power devices such as my AP in my office. My switch needs power though but if you could get power in your loft you could just use that to power your wireless AP.
I am not sure if it's within regs to do but you could take power from a light pendant from one of the bedrooms and put a single plug socket in the loft. It's not like the switch is going to be going above the 6A light circuit. I am sure someone will correct me shortly
*edit* Actually on second thoughts you should be able to use a switch like mine to power a switch over POE. Maybe the one I mentioned (GS105PE ) is such a switch that can be powered that way. I will have a read up.
Getting power into the loft would be a goal anyway I think, I have an old decommissioned electric shower that was in the en-suite upstairs (it's own fuse in the fusebox as well). That is now a normal mixer shower, but the cables that went to the box in the ceiling should still be around.
This power source should hopefully allow me to add some power for a switch stationed in the loft rafters, and maybe let me add a socket in the bedroom whilst I am at it? I want to add a TV point to the wall opposite the bed with power + Ethernet.
Regarding power I was interested to see what the aircon was using, so I dug out my old SMETS1 in home display which tells me current power draw. Even with no aircon units on and just the PC running I am using 400w's basically all the time.
Might need to do a bit of digging into what is eating my power up slowly, as that equates to 9.6kwh's of power a day just having my desktop PC operational, plus other stuff not actively in use like my NAS.