![]() Well, it seems that the PoE standard was built with this question in mind. What if I turned this port 'on' as a means to power the device? I assume the risk is damaging the external Seagate HD in this situation? Another question though: my US-8 Unifi switch does have a PoE. Thank you for the suggestions, and the info! I'll buy this little guy today and will try out the solution end of this week (God bless Amazon Prime). More than two devices connected is a network, that's part of the fundamentals of networking. You are also making some networking here, so I would not be surprised if you had to access the Ubiquiti interface and check if the device is in the list of connected devices and then assign a specific IP address to this unit and then go the computer settings and try to add the device via the network, remember this will no longer be a USB device because you are putting something in between the computer and the drive. I would try something simpler instead, maybe this little friend can help you: Another possibility is that the Ethernet to USB adapter you are using is not compatible with this particular model and the reason why it happens is that you are adding more and more hardware, so that compatibility problems may arise. ![]() Yes, I think his explanation confused me, it looked like that the device was powered by the computer and not by its own power adapter. One possibility is that the Ubiquiti is not compatible with USB as mentioned by TempestCatto. Is that first connection with the wall outlet insufficient to power the device? I suppose the result makes it obvious, but I would have assumed I would not require PoE if the power is coming from this other source. ![]() Hi your explanation makes sense, although I am a bit confused on one thing - I see that my external hard drive does plug into a standard electric port, as well as the USB piece. The good thing is that the majority of Ethernet switches are PoE-enabled networking devices, so you will need to contact them and ask if those ports are PoE or if the ports on those units are for data only, if this was the case you will need a power injector and connect the Ethernet cable to the power injector first so that you can connect another Ethernet cable to the power injector and have a PoE enabled port, it looks something like this: ![]() You can read more about this type of ports in the link below but summarizing everything, some Ethernet ports can provide energy and data, but the majority of ports are for data only and cannot power on devices: So the big question is: "Can your Ubiquiti power on other devices?" or "Are the Ethernet ports of the Ubiquiti devices Power-over-Ethernet ports?" The Ethernet adapter cannot power your device! Yes, that's it, it sounds easy, right? But the problem is that if the Ethernet port cannot provide power over the ethernet, if it is not ready to send power through Ethernet, this will not work. If it does not turn on, the answer would be a little "simpler". Alas, this did not work - the external hard drive did not even turn on.Īny thoughts on where I went wrong here? Any more clever ideas than mine? I thought I would be clever by purchasing the the Plugable USB 3.0 to Ethernet LAN network adapter () and a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Coupler Adapter (Type A Female to Female) () so that I could do something like Routher->Ethernet cable->USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter->USB 3.0 coupler->External Harddrive USB 3.0. Unfortunately, none of the Ubiquiti products have a USB slot. I have since committed to the Ubiquiti life, purchasing an EdgeRouter X, a couple of US-8 Unifi switches, and a few UniFi AP Lites. I have a Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive USB 3.0 which used to plug nicely into the Linksys WRT AC1200 router I previously had - using this, I could access my hard drive's files from any computer on the network. ![]()
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