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the-evaluator said:
Can you still ping them when they're showing as disconnected? Can you SSH into them when they're disconnected? If you can, can you grab the output of the info command.
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I'm out on the road a lot this week but I'll tag you when I'm back AND they do it again. Only has 1 disc twice and the other once today

I spotted the other day when I logged into the app after the disconnected email it said "heartbeat missed"
 
WJA96 said:
They’re great (but expensive) and they only work with UniFi Video (now EoL) or Protect. They’re not ONVIF, they’re specific to UniFi.
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What would you recommend instead? I looked at Ring but I don't want to be tied into one specific vendor and paying subscription charges or have my stuff in the cloud. Since I have a NAS with plenty of storage I'd rather keep it all at home.
 
Yaayuh! said:
To directly support a company that's known for backdoors and surveillance at Uighur concentration camps :p

The "best" of anything usually comes with stigma though.
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Then you're pretty much left with Axis, Bosch/Agfa, Hanwha and Verkada. Everything else is tainted. Hikvision and Dahua are no. 1 and no. 2 in IP cameras in the world and they build most of the IP cameras in the world. Anything from mainland China is either fully or partly owned and operated by the Chinese Government or Military. That's what happens in a Communist country where everything is effectively owned by the state. If you think that by not buying a Dahua camera you're somehow influencing them then I respect that decision.

The fact that Hikvision and Dahua are operated by the Chinese Military is partly what makes their kit so good. You're literally getting dictatorship grade AI and cameras. They're REALLY good. The question is - like any tool - are YOU going to use it for good or for evil? Personally, I use them in what I believe are good applications.
 
I was going to hold out for moving house but it's looking more like we'll be doing that next year instead -

Currently run VM SH3 in modem mode > Asus RT-AC68U (wireless radios turned off) > dumb switches on either side of apartment > 2x FlexHD APs (using PoE injectors each side of apartment).

Thinking of moving to -

VM SH3 in modem mode > Unifi Dream Machine > Unifi US-8-60W > 1x FlexHD AP on PoE (UDM removes need for 2x) + 2x UniFi USW Flex Mini switches (1 for each side of flat)

Idea being: gain unifi controller + VLAN support in UDM, have option to sell spare FlexHD AP, consolidate power plugs needed in various places as switches will also run off PoE.

What do you think?
 
WJA96 said:
You should RSSI rather than output power. Radios -> Pick your radio -> Advanced Settings -> set RSSI to a lower -ve number so if it’s currently -90dBi set it to -60dBi and it’ll boot the client off much quicker so it finds a stronger signal.

Im also seeing some recommendations around VHT values - please read up on what this does because if you force channel aggregation to can completely kill some clients.

Definitely DON’T use Auto for channels - it doesn’t work. If you have two access points in a detached house, set them on 1 and 11, VHT40 for 2.4GHz clients medium power RSSI -60dBi and soft kick enabled.

For 5GHz use channel 36 and 48 and VHT40 or VHT80 if ALL your clients are 3x3 (they aren’t so use VHT40). If it’s a big house use High power, RSSI set somewhere between -55dBi and -70dBi and move it lower if your clients don’t swap access points as much as you’d like. I regularly do home installs with an AP-AC-InwallHD in every room and UAP-AC-HDNano in the hallways and landings and we set the RSSI to -40dBi so the clients are switching from room to room. Unnecessary? Yes, but if you want to know EXACTLY where your kids are, very handy in a massive home.
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Where can I found RSSI -ve numbers?

All I can see is this

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shiver said:
Settings > Site > Services > tick Enable advanced features then go back to where you were
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Thanks

So I have set the channels etc correctly. Still struggling with 5G reach to the far corners of the house e.g. garage, however 2.4G reaches here quite well.

Should I in this case broadcast 2.4G and 5G on the same SSID?
I have tried this but faced a little issue. When going to a place where 5G does not reach, the mobile phone swaps to 2.4G - fine.
However, when moving back into 5G range and staying on the same AP, the phone stays on 2.4G. Obviously it could be the case that for hours the phone doesn't re-kick WiFi or move AP, and thus the phone will just stick on the 2.4G network, even with band steering set to "prefer 5G".

Using seperate SSIDs, the issue is swapping from one network to another manually, which for my parents is not going to happen as they are useless with this sort of thing!!
 
You can see which client is connected to which AP easily enough but I can't see where the band those clients are using is shown. I'm sure you used to be able to see the band in the clients view but it doesn't look like you can now.
 
Are you looking under the main client list as my list of available columns is much larger.

EDIT: there is a column called wifi which shows which wifi radio they on :D
 
Hmm. It's definitely not there for me unless I'm missing something. Controller 6.0.27 on Ubuntu.

If I go to clients then the columns I can choose from are the same no matter if I choose to see all clients, wired clients or wireless clients:

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