I was looking forward to the release of Unifi Protect 1.14.19 because rumor had it that by moving the configuration for the NVR to external storage recording events would now survive a hard reset of the UDM-Pro host. Given how things have been going with the UDM-Pro, the result was not surprising.
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It’s easy, maybe too easy :), to block a client in Unifi. This is a guide for how to undo that if you’ve gotten block happy.
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The Letsfit T22 wireless headphones provide an excellent feature set for around $40. There are some trade-offs versus better known brands, but only at the margins, which means this Bluetooth headset is a great value.
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The Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro) and Unifi Dream Machine (UDM) build off of the Internet Security features available with Unifi and a USG/USG-PRO-4. This video walks through the features and at where they have been enhanced.
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Every so often I am reminded why Hubitat is an amazing platform for the DIY Home Automation (HA) enthusiast. While documentation around how to do this is super thin, Hubitat supports Zigbee sensors from the Lowes Iris HA platform. Adding them was more frustrating than it should have been, but once you know how it is a super cheap way […]
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It’s too early to say exactly, but given the length of the “Known Issues” I’m going to speculate that “stable” is only relative to version 1.6.4. Here’s hoping that they can knock a few more of these out, as well as the one that affects me (selfish, IKR).
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The NVIDIA Shield TV pretty much killed my interest in the Windows x86 DIY HTPC. It just does everything I want it to do, better. But, I can respect that change is hard, and there are still uses cases for a SFF x86 HTPC in the stack. For those, this new NUC from Intel looks pretty nice, but isn’t cost […]
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The ability to run Ubiquiti’s Unifi Protect network video recorder (NVR) on the Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro), is one of the key differences between it and the standard UDM. The process should be relatively straight forward per Ubiquiti’s documentation, but as with most things UDM-Pro, things didn’t quite go to plan… Tech note: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005898593-UniFi-Protect-How-to-Migrate-from-UniFi-Video-3-to-UniFi-Protect
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I don’t think you can call anything that doesn’t require a license a car, so I’m going with enclosed golf cart. Please don’t take anything but AWE from that though, because I think this little guy is fantastic. ~40 miles of range, charge from 220v in three hours, and a top speed just shy of 30mph. And it’s super cheap. […]
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I can only assume that the Ubiquiti Unifi USW Flex Mini is penance for the debacle that is the UDM/UDM-Pro. Because where the Unifi Dream Machine is deeply flawed, this $30 fully managed, PoE switch is the opposite. Great value, great features, and it works the way it’s supposed to. Brilliant.
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