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Ev0 said:
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.
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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 :cry:

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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
Caged said:
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?
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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.
 
Caged said:
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?
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You can set it up so if a camera detects something the light will come on.
 
robj20 said:
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.
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Protect floodlights aren't very bright though. I converted five existing 50W LED PIR floods (4000lm) to being dumb and now control them and other external lights via HA home automation that takes its input from my many external cameras via the CCTV software AI triggers. This approach also allows a full range of other automation uses which we also use extensively.

I use UniFi APs/switches but their CCTV and lights are so expensive for their quality and capability, however I appreciate for those with just a couple of cameras or lights its convenient.
 
Simon42 said:
Protect floodlights aren't very bright though. I converted five existing 50W LED PIR floods (4000lm) to being dumb and now control them and other external lights via HA home automation that takes its input from my many external cameras via the CCTV software AI triggers. This approach also allows a full range of other automation uses which we also use extensively.

I use UniFi APs/switches but their CCTV and lights are so expensive for their quality and capability, however I appreciate for those with just a couple of cameras or lights its convenient.
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They'll be plenty bright enough I currently use a couple of solar powered LEDs but as we get into winter they don't charge enough to power them.
 
Caged said:
I can see how someone using 50w LED floodlights might think they're not bright enough
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:D

They are covering a good sized garden and large drive though and there isn't any street lighting nearby.

There were all rusty 500W halogen lights with failing PIRs when we moved in so I switched to LED/PIR units with directional panels to get better coverage but am slowly replacing them with more but lower power LED lights around the house and garden as I renovate but all controlled by automation from camera motion detection (don't ask how many cameras I have :))
 
Finally can order FTTP !! Currently in contract with Plusnet so will stick with them and most likely get the 500mb package.

Sort of decided to go for the UCG-Ultra. Which firstly assume means I won't need to purchase the Plusnet hub 2 router ?

Secondly seems very mixed opinions on what AP's I should get ( currently have AC-Lite so need replacing). Torn between 6+ or u7 Pro (At pretty much twice the price!! )
 
Snow-Munki said:
Finally can order FTTP !! Currently in contract with Plusnet so will stick with them and most likely get the 500mb package.

Sort of decided to go for the UCG-Ultra. Which firstly assume means I won't need to purchase the Plusnet hub 2 router ?

Secondly seems very mixed opinions on what AP's I should get ( currently have AC-Lite so need replacing). Torn between 6+ or u7 Pro (At pretty much twice the price!! )
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One real complaint i've seen about the U7 Pro is IoT devices have a hard time holding a stable connection to them; source: r/Ubiquiti and the Ubiquiti forums. Unless they have fixed that issue.

They also run really hot, which may or may not bother you, as the built-in fan never seems to kick in.
 
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Caged said:
What don't you like about it / what doesn't it do?
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So I think I've come to realised it doesn't do site management within the web browser app. I saw a cool video on a product page and it showed me in a nice visual page how I can see my AP and Express under one location.

At the moment the way I'm remoting onto the admin console of my router is on my phone via the Unfi app. I want to have the ability to do it on my desktop via the app like how I've been managing my AP.
Am I doing something wrong or does this Express not allows me to 'manage' it in this way?
 
Schizophonic said:
So I think I've come to realised it doesn't do site management within the web browser app. I saw a cool video on a product page and it showed me in a nice visual page how I can see my AP and Express under one location.

At the moment the way I'm remoting onto the admin console of my router is on my phone via the Unfi app. I want to have the ability to do it on my desktop via the app like how I've been managing my AP.
Am I doing something wrong or does this Express not allows me to 'manage' it in this way?
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You can login via a web-browser.

192.168.1.1 (you need to click passed the browser warning)
 
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New UI Hardware :cry:

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Installed one at a family member and it works perfectly. The express was junk, so they refunded and swapped.

U6-Lite
NanoHD
Swiss Army knife thing.
US-8-POE

All work spot on in that setup.
 
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