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[Ev0]

I’m torn with what to do at our place, approx 1200sqft per floor.

Could do with having an AP upstairs and have two options.

1. I have a network port on the upstairs landing, I could get an in wall device and stick it there, or get a U6 Mesh ‘Coke can’, and do what I did when I tried one years ago which is to use the U6 Mesh wall mount along with a longer screw for the network port faceplate to mount it to the wall.

Easy option, but having the AP at knee height or there abouts probably isn’t ideal coverage wise.

2. Somehow drop a cable from the loft down the internal wall that landing port is on, join the cables, and then have a ceiling mounted AP on the other end.

Best for coverage, but harder to do as to get a cable down the wall to where the existing cable is means finding a way to get through the noggin in the wall with minimal disruption.

Also another plus point is I could run up to a switch in the loft, and then have the ability for more cable runs to be dropped down in future for things.

So I bought a 6 In Wall, and a 6 Mesh Pro, to try them just in the existing spot where I have a cable on the upstairs landing.

Well I'm not sure I'll get the 6 Mesh Pro out the box due to the fact it's huge and doubt I'd be sticking that on a wall on the landing

The 6 In Wall though is doing a nice job, it's helped the signal strength for the devices that sit in the room my wife uses as her office, they used to sit around the mid 70s dBm area, now they are mid 50s.

Reason for the 6 over the 7 for now at least is I'm limited to just PoE for input at the moment as it's all running off the UDR, guessing might be able to get away with the 7 on that though (only other thing I'm running off it is a flex mini 2.5g).

Will be sending the Mesh Pro back and will see how the In Wall does before deciding what to do.

 

[robj20]

I'm close to placing another order, just wish the Protect Floodlights were in stock they've not been available for ages.

Switch Pro Max 24 POE
10G DAC cable
24 Port Keystone Patch Panel
G4 Doorbell Pro POE Kit
and some of those lovely etherlight patch cables

I'm also waiting for a new cabinet to come in stock, 12U 450mm deep, they have the 550 in stock but that is too big I think for Unifi gear.

I'd the protect lights come back on I'll grab two of those and another G5 Ultra camera as well.

 

[Caged]

Do the lights do anything? Like can the activation of the motion sensor on the light trigger a camera to start recording or are they just PoE-powered devices that can put motion detection events onto a timeline?

 

[robj20]

Do the lights do anything? Like can the activation of the motion sensor on the light trigger a camera to start recording or are they just PoE-powered devices that can put motion detection events onto a timeline?

I want to use them as smarter driveway and back garden lights. Can trigger them on line crossing. My current lights are just pir sensors and just don't cut it half the time.