Combined bridge power/ethernet wire
The included 30 cm power wire and ethernet cable contradict the advice that optimal positioning of the bridge should be vertical and not directly behind the router. It is very hard to get the bridge into a vertical position and on the wall while not being very close to the router.
Tado also suggest the use of powerline wifi to get the optimum position of the bridge.
Ultimately you will inevitably have a powerline or router ethernet connection with either a built in USB power supply or a separate power supply from a twin electricity socket. That means trailing and fixing two wires, likely of different colours around your house. I for one would buy a combined power/ethernet cable with a port at one end that connects to the two female ports in the bridge and another which splits to a "y" cable with ethernet/USB port at the end.
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The cable you are looking for is already available.
Just search for PoE splitter 5V micro usb
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Perfect - thanks - did not realise you could get that power over ethernet
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I think the better solution here is for tado to combine the products of a power line adapter and an internet bridge into a single unit that can plug into a single socket. I have to use a power line adapter for the bridge and cannot find a power line adapter that supports POE directly from the powerline. I’m either limited to a location where I have a double socket or use a very bulky pass through powerline adapter, neither is great.0
