Here’s something that lasted just shy of five years – a PoE to 12V converter.

I just checked, I never wrote about these things…so here we go. Last week, the ESP32 in my living room stopped working. It does serve as a sensor station (temperature, humidity) for the DECT heater valve in the living room, and it also runs some LED stripes around the house, some of which are automated via iobroker, and some are activated by infrared sensors. They all can be changed over a simple web interface as well. Turns out: The ESP is fine, but the power supply, a PoE to 12V converter, is dead. […]