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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Don’t tell anyone, but it’s been all over Reddit that the UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell was in EA. Apparently today is the day when it GA’d, because I received an “in-stock” notice, but unfortunately by the time I clicked on it (2 minutes later) it was sold out. Damn! Spec’s are pretty much in-line with a Ring Pro doorbell: dual-band […]
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Configuring an IPSec site-to-site VPN between Ubiquiti Unifi gateways (USG/USG-Pro/UDM/UDM-Pro) is relatively straight forward process, but there are couple sticking points that can cause a hang up. This video walks through the setup for a manual VPN, when you can’t use the automatic config.
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The Ubiquiti UniFi Protect Network Video Recorder (UNVR) fills a massive gap in the Unifi Protect ecosystem because it finally adds storage redundancy to the mix. Unfortunately there are still quite a few limitations with the Protect ecosystem, but if you can live with them, and some flakey initial software quality issues, the UNVR is a solid addition to the […]
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The US-16-150W is not Ubiquiti’s newest Unifi PoE switch, but there are several reasons why it is a better choice versus the latest model. In this video, we discuss this, as well as walk through the setup and features of this 16 port enterprise switch.
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Ubiquiti released the 1.7.2 stable firmware for the Unifi Dream Machine (UDM) and Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro) gateway devices over the weekend. There isn’t a massive amount of detail in the release notes around what was improved, but they definitely stealth fixed an pretty major issue for those using SFP+ WAN connections.
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This issue with incredible slowness when deep packet inspection (DPI) is enabled isn’t new to the UDM/UDM-Pro firmware version 1.7.0, I just haven’t had a chance to make this video public until now. Hopefully it’s something that UI will fix, because DPI is a great feature, and it sucks that I can’t enable it.
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