I'm not showing a BEFORE pic - it was just too horrible to post and might scare away young children...
I went back to the drawing board and punched everything down to a 48-port keystone patch panel. Took forever to do, but with the holiday weekend I had the time.
I even went so far to order some 8in and 12in patch cables beforehand to get everything somewhat clean looking and organized.
I found someone online to 3D print some Raspberry Pi rack mount trays. All my RPis, including HomeSeer are now on pullout trays for easy access. It holds up to 6 Rpi units.
Older Pi units are powered from a USB hub, Pi4 are PoE powered.
I moved my PDU to the bottom and that gave me a lot of space by using short power cables and running everything along the bottom of the case.
There is a red "internet reboot" at the bottom that the family can use to restart the internet if needed.
Lessons learned: I might go with 2 separate 24-port keystone panels and put the Unifi Switch between them. It might be a little cleaner going that route.
Definitely punch everything down. I even punched down my USG router. I didnt punch down the Cloud Key at the very top since it is going away and will be replaced with a RPi.
I didnt comb the cables coming in - I wish I had done that for aesthetics.
The entire rack draws around 120w, a little more at night when the cameras turn on the IR lighting. I'm going to set it up with DeviceHistory soon.
Anyway, here are some pics. I'm not a hardware guy, but I spent a lot of time with our techs from work who gave some great pointers on how to do this:
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