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  • I agree.

    But the realist in me knows it is unlikely to be allowed to happen.

    I know that the government will have to service a £15bn debt through borrowing, which will raise interest rates, mortgages, rents and require cuts to public services to pay for. That is on top of the investment needed over the next few years to stop sewage leaking into rivers and leaks of millions of litres a day.

    In addition I know that pension funds and large investors will lose substantial sums of money and will look to divest from similar risks, which could lead to more utility companies becoming insolvent. A snowball effect.

    Finally, I know that international investment in the UK will be seen as more risky.

    What the government will be doing now is weighing up those risks against the cost of raising bills by the 59% that the water companies and industry bodies are asking for. If the worst should happen, will taxpayers be better off with a couple of hundred extra £ on their water bills to pay, or potentially a lot worse off with a rapid nationalisation of multiple firms.

  • I’m using PoE Extractors to run some regular 12vdc stuff using existing ethernet cabling.

    A couple of points to note:

    • network switches won’t turn on power by default unless the receiving device asks for it using the right protocols, so you need to inject the power using the corresponding PoE injector at the other end of the cable. you can’t just snip the end off a RJ45 and wire it into things.
    • Cat cable won’t take high currents, be sure to stick within the allowed range for the cable or it will melt and maybe bust your device
    • there is a voltage drop over distance, be sure to calculate if you need to change your transformer as 12vdc could become 9 or lower by the time it gets to your device
    • there are some really poor quality PoE injectors/extractors.
    • running mains cable and having a transformer nearer the device might be simpler and cheaper in the long run.
  • can you ping one of the IoT devices from the HA device on that new NIC?

    can you manually add a device and HA see it/add it normally?

    is there a firewall routing between HA and the IoT devices that might be blocking discovery somehow?

  • is there a reason you can’t put your HA in that VLAN too? if it’s a segregated, non-networked environment then why not create a second network adapter for your HA and give it an address in that VLAN too?