That low cost POE adapter should work fine. You could save self even
more money by just splitting out the cat5 brown pair at both ends and
connecting power to it. That's all your £7 adapter is doing.
If anybody is interested I could post something in the Wiki about this
zero cost PoE option.
Okay... to rephrase my question.
Given the following standard setup:
Computer running SC
WD MyPassport USB powered external drive with mp3 files and iTunes
playlists
SBR capable of seeing and playing music from USB drive through SC on
the computer.
Can the yet to be released SBTouch take the
I've seen this quite a bit recently. I play something in Touch, pause it, go
to Home menu and press power button.
Then, when I power back on and go to Now Playing screen, the buttons at the
bottom of the page are not displayed. I have to recycle box to get them back.
Is there a known fault
agillis;460681 Wrote:
That low cost POE adapter should work fine. You could save self even
more money by just splitting out the cat5 brown pair at both ends and
connecting power to it. That's all your £7 adapter is doing.
If anybody is interested I could post something in the Wiki about
I also should mention that a real (802.3af) POE switch or injector uses
a safe automatic detection mechanism to verify that the target device is
ready to accept power before switching it on at the source. Without that
feature, you run the risk of cooking a conventional device that is
accidentally
On 9/23/2009 9:25 PM, seanadams wrote:
This is a bad idea in general, but especially for Touch. You need
regulation at the point of load because CAT5 has a high resistance (3
ohms / 100ft) and Touch draws highish, variable current at only 5V.
I was surprised to see that CAT5 is so lossy
Philip Meyer;460828 Wrote:
I've seen this quite a bit recently. I play something in Touch, pause
it, go to Home menu and press power button.
Then, when I power back on and go to Now Playing screen, the buttons at
the bottom of the page are not displayed. I have to recycle box to get
them
