Apologies for late reply (Was in Hospital for the past 4 days).

I am running Cat6 to the cameras (only future proof). Then running Cat8 between the trunks in a pex tube for the potential to swap to fiber.

What was tripping me up was the PoE on the switch and it couldn’t talk to the NVR hosted on another switch.

Ya think I would have clearer sense on this as I did the CCNA exam facepalm.

Thank you for the reassurance!

Great! Thank you for reassuring me. I was having some heat exhaustion being in an attic too long and went into panic mode and not thinking clearly. I appreciate all of y’all helping me out.

Cheers.

Apologies for late reply (Was in Hospital for the past 4 days) Here is a diagram. https://imgur.com/5VXJHJ6