Homelab

As I plan my first rack for my new home, I find myself waffling on how to handle certain wiring. I won’t have “easy” access to the rear, so I prefer most things up front for diagnosis/management. Which means house wiring I plan to terminate in keystone punchdown panels up front. That’s fine. I’ll have the rack space to burn.

But then I have more awkward situations. Such as the hardwired security camera lines that need to feed to the back of the POE NVR.

Would you just terminate the lines and plug them in? Only issue is if I want to manually power cycle a camera I have to pull the rack out. So then maybe terminate house wiring in a punchdown up front and run a line from that back through a brush plate to the NVR. But are brush plates going to look messy? So then just to add needless points of failure, I could bring the NVR’s ports up to maybe a coupler panel and then jumper between them. That would look pretty, but… add so many connections.

How would you handle this sort of thing?