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.

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.