I completely forgot about PoE. I have zero devices that support it since it seems to be so rare. I'd go out and buy a nice switch if it had more support. I really don't like this trend of low power IoT devices that only support Wi-Fi when Ethernet+PoE is perfect for them. I'm all for having Wi-Fi built in, just not the only way to connect.

no need for a switch, you can get 5$ injection power supplies. https://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/power/rb-p54.ht...

BTW, mikrotik is a very nice platform for geeks, en attendant Godot (a high load open source linux based router distro. Yes I know of openwrt, but that's kind of limited hw, hackish and prosumer? )

I'll third the desire. We've been turning the WiFi off at night, and virtually every AP we've had has had issues. So I'd much rather use ethernet for something as critical as security, due to past WiFi issues.

Out of curiosity, why do you turn off WiFi at night?

I'm getting suspicious of WiFi's actual safety, potential EMF sensitivity and all that. The same wavelength at higher powers cooks food and has never actually been proven safe at lower levels. Even though it's non-ionizing radiation ... so are the various nuclear radiation particles/waves. So we're running a test to see if turning the WiFi off affects our sleep.

I would worry more about your neighbors using your network, the transmitter in your cellphone is much more powerful than in your AP, and I will guess that you sleep much nearer to it as well... In either case, the strength falls off with the square of the distance.