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    Replacing a Reolink PoE IP cam cable, pinout

    I’m switching from Eufy to Reolink IP/security camera’s. Mainly because of their more than excellent integration in HomeAssistant, my home automation platform of choice. Since I recently also upgraded my home network to Ubiquiti and with that the ability to use PoE I bought my first PoE camera since the idea of running just one, single cable for both network connectivity and power seemed nice. Two other camera’s here at home are WiFi based. Now when I received the camera (a RLC-81MA 4K/8MP dual lens model) I was a bit disappointed when I saw the ugly, bulky and short splitter cable Reolink included and worse: it was not detachable! These…