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The cheapest route will be to get the CK2+ which comes with a 1TB hard drive already, a PoE switch from Amazon for <$100 (make sure it has enough PoE ports for your cameras plus 1 to power the CK2+ if you want to do that rather than use the wall adapter), and then 4 or 6 or however many G5 Bullet cameras. With 4 cameras, CK2+, and switch, you'll be looking at about $800 total plus tax and maybe $15 shipping from ubiquiti.

Awesome, I appreciate your help

Question- It looks like the CK2+ has one network port- to connect to the PoE switch. How would I connect the CK2+ to my home internet? Would I just need to have a cable from my router to the PoE switch? I have room on my main switch to add this if needed.

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Posted by Hopeful Doc

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Posted on 8/10/23 at 9:30 am to slinger1317

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Would I just need to have a cable from my router to the PoE switch? I have room on my main switch to add this if needed.

Yes- you connect it via PoE OR you can use a separate power adapter and hook it to a standard 802.3/non-PoE port. This is a little tricky to explain, but the cloud key is not a full router replacement without the addition of a gateway (there used to be a $129 gateway device, but it’s practically nonexistent anymore. The rest of the options are pretty expensive and unwieldy if you’re not a rack guy). I think it’s a standalone DHCP server if you want it to be, but it can’t do port forwarding, and I don’t think the VPN services are active without the gateway. So don’t think of it as a router replacement- it just drops into the network on the switch like a new roku, blu ray player, etc.

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