I’ve been looking forward to the release of the Ubiquiti UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell for quite a while. So I was thrilled when it finally came out, unfortunately they were super scarce for quite a while, but I got my hands on one and have been using it for quite a while. There’s a lot to like, but also a […]
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Ubiquiti released a major Unifi Controller update, moving from the 5.x family to 6.x. There are a lot of changes documented, and surely a lot more that aren’t. Personally, while UI labeled it “stable” I think it’s best to sit it out for a while – and I love playing with shinny new things :).
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August 11th, 2020 was finally Solar Install Day. At least for me :). While I would have loved to catch those June/July rays, I definitely think it was worth the wait to get the system I wanted; and also I can’t say how long it would have taken for any of the other vendors either. In total, it took three […]
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If you’ve ever remodeled a kitchen or bathroom, you’ve almost certainly sat around a computer with a designer, creating the perfect combination of cabinets, sinks, and whatever else you want to put in the room. Audio Advice’s Home Theater Designer is like that, but for home theater rooms. I did ask about how much you can DIY, because I suspect […]
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The much awaited 1.8.0 firmware version for the UDM/UDM-Pro has finally been released. It includes a massive list of bug fixes and a few new features.
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Four, or maybe five, days ago Unifi Protect stopped working on both my Android and iOS mobile devices for the instance hosted on my UDM-Pro. As we can see the UNVR is working fine now, it actually wasn’t when I first noticed that the UDM-Pro was offline. The issue is isolated to the mobile apps, so I just started a […]
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This wasn’t intended to be a rant, but it kind of turned out that way. Sorry about that, but some days, UI really gets me going…
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I woke up this morning to the most unwelcome notification that my remote Ubiquiti Unifi NVR was offline. Never having had to deal with this before I thought it would be interesting to record the troubleshooting process to get it back online without having physical access to the box.
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UI recently released Unifi Protect 1.14.11 for the UDM-Pro and UNVR, this video walks through the differences and one issue I noticed with the update.
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As much as I resist promoting Kickstarter projects, I just can’t help myself here. There’s just so much fun to be had with this OpenCV hardware. Bold claims are made around the setup-to-running time, but even if those are exponentially wrong, it’s still a massive win assuming they actually come to market. Although, given that it’s about $460k over the […]
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