What’s new.

Sunday, September 20, 2026

1. this deploy

   Collector PoE and L2 land on Switches

   A shop collector push now paints used PoE ports, L2 (MAC, hostname, VLAN, neighbor), and watts onto Systems / scan / Switches. Watts stay Unknown unless the push sent a number. Harborline stays the compiled demo. Instant On is never scraped.

   • ●port.poe from POST /api/collector/ingest overlays the switch faceplate and the used-PoE count. A boolean is not a watt reading.
   • ●UniFi official pull still wins when both exist. Merge-add only. Password hashes untouched.
   • ●network-device-auto-add is checked off. Instant On never. Plesk never scrapes the house LAN.
   • collector
   • switches
   • poe
   • plant

Friday, September 18, 2026

1. this deploy

   Air's switch card follows the amber rule too

   The switch on Air was painting every live port amber because a PoE switch reports PoE enabled on all of its copper ports. Amber now waits for watts, so the card shows the mix it should: powered ports amber, live ports with no draw green, empty ports black.

   • ●PoE enabled on a port is capability, not power. Only watts on a live port light the bolt.
   • ●Same fix on the switch page and the closet cabinet, since they share the plate.
   • switches
   • poe
   • unifi

2. this deploy

   The port lists follow the same amber rule as the plate

   The last orange accents around switch ports went neutral. Picking a port row on a switch highlights it in white now, and in a closet the PoE pill only lights up on a port that is actually pushing watts.

   • ●The selected port row on a switch is a neutral highlight instead of an orange one.
   • ●Closet port list: the PoE pill is amber only when that port is drawing watts, and the Active / PoE / All buttons no longer use the orange accent.
   • switches
   • closet
   • poe

3. this deploy

   A live SFP uplink is green, and amber now means PoE watts and nothing else

   SFP cages follow the same rule as copper: green when the link is up, plain black when it is not. Every other orange accent on the faceplate — the picked port ring, the hover card edge, the PoE chip when nothing is drawing — went neutral, so amber on a switch always means that port is pushing watts.

   • ●A live SFP uplink reads the same green as an active copper port. A dark cage is a cage with no link.
   • ●The PoE chip in the header only lights amber while the switch is actually handing out watts.
   • ●Clicking a port on the switch page rings it in white instead of orange. SFP still never shows a bolt or a watt figure.
   • switches
   • poe
   • unifi

4. this deploy

   Switch ports read amber, green, or black at a glance

   A port is only amber when it is actually pushing PoE watts. A live port with no power now reads green, and a port with nothing plugged into it is a plain black jack instead of a lit one.

   • ●Amber bolt = up and drawing watts. Green jack = up, no PoE draw. Plain black jack = down.
   • ●PoE-capable ports still carry the bolt, but it stays neutral until watts are flowing, so amber never means anything else.
   • ●A down port no longer claims 0 W. It reads PoE port · no link. A real 0 W still shows only when the controller reported zero on a live port.
   • ●Same three colors on the Air card, the switch page, and the MDF cabinet, and they hold up on a phone.
   • switches
   • poe
   • unifi

5. this deploy

   The MDF cabinet shows every active port, not just PoE

   Open a closet and the switch draws the same faceplate Air uses — PoE copper, plain copper, and SFP uplinks. Under the rack there is a new Ports in this cabinet list so you can trace a live drop that has no PoE on it.

   • ●Filter the list by Active, PoE, or All. Each row opens the circuit path.
   • ●A row carries jack and room, VLAN, MAC, TDR length, and the directory name when the plant has them.
   • ●Watts and link speed show only when a controller pull reported them. Everything else reads Unknown instead of a guess, and 0 W means the controller really said zero.
   • ●TDR length stays typed or tester. Lantern still does not bind your directory or scrape your switches.
   • closet
   • switch
   • poe

6. this deploy

   Switch page lists every port: device, PoE, VLAN, spare

   Open a switch and the faceplate now has a real port table under it — port and alias, up or down, link speed, PoE watts and mode, VLAN, the device on the jack, and whether it is an uplink, a downlink switch, or an access port. Click a row to light that jack on the faceplate; click a jack to jump to the row. The header counts used vs spare and the PoE headroom left in the budget.

   • ●Devices come from the last controller pull — the port MAC is matched to that client for its hostname and IP. On a typed plant the jack, room, and drop the shop keyed show instead, marked Typed.
   • ●Anything the controller did not report reads Unknown. Lantern does not invent a watt, a speed, or a VLAN.
   • ●A switch with no controller can still be walked: pick the faceplate model on the switch page and type a device per port. The picked faceplate now sticks — typing a camera onto port 7 no longer repaints the chassis as a generic plate.
   • ●PoE bolt, per-port hover, and the lit-port animation are unchanged. Password hashes untouched.
   • switches
   • poe
   • unifi

7. this deploy

   A lightning bolt on every PoE port

   The switch faceplate now marks each PoE port with its own bolt, so you can glance at the plate and see which jacks can power a camera or an AP. Hover or tap a port for that port's watts. The big total that sat on top of the ports moved up to the header.

   • ●Bolt lit = that port is drawing power right now. Bolt dim = PoE port with nothing on it. No bolt = not a PoE port, and SFP cages never get one.
   • ●Hover or tap a port for up/down, that port's watts, link speed, and the device. If the controller sent no watts for a port it says watts unknown on this pull — 0 W only when the controller really said zero.
   • ●Total draw and budget now ride in a chip next to 16 copper + 2 SFP. The budget is the switch's published spec (150 W on a a UniFi PoE switch); if the controller reports a different number, the chip says so instead of printing it as the spec.
   • ●Ports are focusable, so the same facts come up on a phone. Password hashes untouched.
   • switches
   • unifi
   • poe

8. this deploy

   Switch faceplates show PoE watts on a lightning bolt

   The a UniFi PoE switch (and other PoE catalog plates) now has a bolt in the middle of the copper ports for used / budget watts from the last pull. Hover a port for that drop’s watts, link speed, up or down, and the device name. The old “10 up / 18 / 150 W” line mixed port count with the budget — it now reads 10 up · 16 copper + 2 SFP.

   • ●Bolt sits on the 16-port copper bank. Hover it for the budget and which ports are drawing. Watts come from controller poe_power — nothing invented.
   • ●Click the card still opens /switches. Lit-port animation unchanged. Password hashes untouched.
   • switches
   • unifi
   • poe