Garage, Shed or Barn Security Cameras! No WiFi or Underground Network Cabling

I bought this on Amazon and the links for this and all products shown here today are in my blog in the description below.

These can transfer data between each other at 2 gigs/sec between the 2 ports and consume almost 6 watts.  Some users mentioned they don’t see speeds this high, but it’s rated for these speeds.

The only con I see is the operating temperature of 0-40C (32-104F).  Unless your workshop or garage is heated, using these in the winter may not be possible.  In the summer, you also need to watch the temperatures on the other extreme.

ince it gets too cold to leave these operating all winter long in my shed, I’m just going to hook these up to verify the concept on this day where it’s above freezing.  I have a buried power line to this outbuilding for a couple of plugins.  It is connected to my breaker box in my house but is on a different circuit than this plug right here, where I’ll be using as a port to input and extract data.

I’ll plug in either adapter here, in this wall plug.  If you have a power bar, plug in the adapter first, then the power bar into it.

Next plug a network cable into your router, modem or switch and the other end into either port on the adapter.

Now, in my shed or garage, plug in the other adapter into an outlet.  The shed is about 100ft away from my house but this devices can communicate up to distances of over 950ft.

Attach a camera using a network cable.  If you have 2 cameras, plug the other one in here, into the second port.

Since the adapter doesn’t supply electricity to the camera over PoE, you will need a to power the camera using a 12v 2amp power adapter.

There you have it, 20fps on a 3MP camera and a perfect picture.  Let’s test for lag by plugging my laptop into the other port on the adapter.  The signal is flowing over the electrical wires twice here.  It’s from my camera to the router in my house and then back again to my computer.  To make sure I have internet, I’ll open my favorite webpage.

Let’s take this a few steps further and let’s say you wanted 3 PoE IP cameras in here; 2 outside and 1 inside.  I’ve got my PoE switch, which is basically a network connection splitter so we can add multiple devices and the router inside the house will manage the IP addresses.

Let’s plug the PoE switch in to an outlet

I’ll plug my PoE switch into the adapter using port 1 with a network cable so now any device plugged in to the other ports have network and internet access.

Next, I’ll plug in each camera to the switch.  They will power up and not power adapter is required to power them.  Inside my house I can access them as they are on the same network thanks to the Powerline adapters.

Again, all cameras are running 20fps and there is little to no lag.