TeepsO

This makes perfect sense and thanks for taking the time to provide your input. Two switches sounds like the way to go for now. And you're right, once I set up everything I want in the home, I'm more than likely not to add a lot more devices thereafter. You have any recommendations? If not, I understand.

Currently, I've got 6 cat cables going to rooms, 4 PoE cameras and 1 NAS. For certain rooms like a TV room that will have multiple devices like an Xbox, I was thinking of just putting a dummy splitter at that location. So maybe 24 is overkill but I wanted to give myself some room to expand.