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it’s is in a 2x2 configuration for each of the 3 frequencies, I presume backhaul is reserved as a subset of those if used that way.
Don’t compromise and get those cables sorted..
even if you drill out, hide the cable behind a drainpipe and get in the loft that way, anything else is just going to have compromises.. 
it’s is in a 2x2 configuration for each of the 3 frequencies, I presume backhaul is reserved as a subset of those if used that way.
Don’t compromise and get those cables sorted..
It’s a detached house, and on the side where the Virgin Media cable comes into house, the previous owner has run a bunch of cables up the wall for the Sky dish. Maybe I could leverage the holes they’ve made for those cables, but I’m not sure if they go as far up as the loft.
I’d love to install something like the U7 Pro Max or U7 Pro XGS on the landing upstairs. Buy once, cry once.
Its daunting when you think about drilling holes etc, but honestly, I never looked back, all my problems disappeared (well, it gave me far more scope for 'proper' solutions).. I had 3 runs of regular Cat5e cables shallowly buried in the stones around the periphery of the house and up the drain pipes for 10 years, it was just bog standard cable and I expected it to last 3 months.. even at 10 years I only removed it when I had the epiphany of using the Soil Stack (although having 2 extensions built meant I could pre-cable 50% of the house with CAT 6A as well)..
It also helped me get over my fears of terminating cables etc, I chased out 1 gang backboxes where I drilled through and put in nice ethernet sockets to make it look all 'pro'.. it just worked first time so I now have no qualms doing cabling/sockets/etc..
DO IT!!!!
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Typical, My delivery from EU store is arriving shortly.
Went to order the G4 Doorbell Pro (to replace my soon to be paperweight Hive View Outdoor camera and current 'dumb' doorbell) and it went out of stock. But managed to pick it up at the same price from another supplier with free delivery.
I've also bought a Honeywell mechanical chime (D117) and plan to use the transformer from the G4 Pro to power that, which I think is probably a better long term solution and more reliable and louder than a WiFi/PoE chime. So I should get an immediate chime on button press, but then also notifications through protect, as well as the camera feed recording locally to replace the current camera. Hopefully the best of all worlds? Anyone else done this successfully?
Enjoying the ecosystem now I have a real gateway and switch rather than just self-hosted network controller (I've used UniFi APs for years). I even got my existing cameras that support ONVIF to work with Protect, but I plan to upgrade them to G5 Turret Ultras unless anything better price/performance comes along.
I've also bought a Honeywell mechanical chime (D117) and plan to use the transformer from the G4 Pro to power that, which I think is probably a better long term solution and more reliable and louder than a WiFi/PoE chime. So I should get an immediate chime on button press, but then also notifications through protect, as well as the camera feed recording locally to replace the current camera. Hopefully the best of all worlds? Anyone else done this successfully?
Enjoying the ecosystem now I have a real gateway and switch rather than just self-hosted network controller (I've used UniFi APs for years). I even got my existing cameras that support ONVIF to work with Protect, but I plan to upgrade them to G5 Turret Ultras unless anything better price/performance comes along.
That could be my next step into the Ubiquiti line. Cameras. I've two Hikvision 4MP cameras currently which I'm happy with image wise. I'll await them failing before swapping them.
The wife dislikes the idea of a doorbell though so I doubt that will ever go ahead.
The wife dislikes the idea of a doorbell though so I doubt that will ever go ahead.
My wife wasn't keen on the concept of a doorbell initially, at face value it's a little Orwellian, but in all honesty it's been genuinely useful with everything from checking the kids have taken the dog out or came home at the agreed time, to making sure deliveries are safely put out of sight, deterring crime and being used by the police in an evidential capacity. I still maintain the Hikvision 4MP and above ColorVu is a vastly better built piece of hardware and produces better night time footage, but Protect is streets ahead in terms of UI and detections vs the usual basic Hikvision NVR and the audio is really good. I'm trying to hold out with my Hikvision's until either the AI units handle multiple cameras or Hikvision eventually use a sensor capable of ColorVu like results.
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Yeah I could imagine it would be very useful. I would have one most likely. Perhaps she will change her mind one day.
I did look at the AI unit for onvif cameras but I'm noting paying for one per camera, like you say, if they can do multiple cameras, I'll buy and get rid of the NVR.
I wonder if Ubiquiti will release a small form factor UNVR for fitting into a 10" rack.
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Just got a bunch of kit for phase 1:
1 x UCG-F
1 x Pro-Max-16-PoE
1 x Flex-2.5G-PoE
1 x Flex-Mini-2.5G
2 x U7 Pro
1 x U7 Outdoor
I just dropped a 30M SFP+ 10G premade fiber alongside some CAT5E I have running down the soil stack to allow the UCG-F to have a 10G link to the switch, and then sweated for 40 mins building a small 'shelf' to screw the Pro-Max-16-PoE to..
This is phase 1, I compromised on the U7-Pro vs U7-Pro-XG, purely because my brother (unifi fanboy) has had issues with his U7-Pro-XG and shelly devices (which I have a few as well), but has no issues on his later revision U7-Pros (which have the separate 2.4G chipset).. Personally I think it's anecdotal as many others don't have issues, but I'm not precious about absolute bandwidth on WiFi, it's mainly IoT and phones/iPads etc.
This is only phase 1, I'll trial just 2 x U7-Pros (one upstairs, one downstairs), if they don't work that well, I'll dedicate those to 2.4G IoT devices and optimally place them and get 2 x U7 Pro XGS for everything else, the house has been extended a lot, so I have some external walls to get through between old/new and currently have 3 internal APs and 2 external APs, so expect to need more!
Setup so far has been easy, just the UCG-F/Pro-Max-16 and one U7-Pro, I've plugged it in to an isolated port on my current gear (TPLink Omada) for the WAN just to setup/mess around.. I'm away for the weekend, but will get back mid-monday to finish setting things up.
Phase 2 will be cameras, additional APs and maybe a 10G 4 or 8 port switch to allow my NAS 10G connectivity to my PC and also because my NAS has 2 x 10G NICs and I have several virtual VLANned interfaces defined for things like Home Assistant and so the backhaul is useful for internal VLAN ACL rules which pass back to the UCG-F (making it a complete 10G backhaul).. I have to wait for the G6 Turrets in black until July and will then look at if I need the U-NVR or not..
Or something like that, I only dabble and only know enough to be dangerous but its fun!
1 x UCG-F
1 x Pro-Max-16-PoE
1 x Flex-2.5G-PoE
1 x Flex-Mini-2.5G
2 x U7 Pro
1 x U7 Outdoor
I just dropped a 30M SFP+ 10G premade fiber alongside some CAT5E I have running down the soil stack to allow the UCG-F to have a 10G link to the switch, and then sweated for 40 mins building a small 'shelf' to screw the Pro-Max-16-PoE to..
This is phase 1, I compromised on the U7-Pro vs U7-Pro-XG, purely because my brother (unifi fanboy) has had issues with his U7-Pro-XG and shelly devices (which I have a few as well), but has no issues on his later revision U7-Pros (which have the separate 2.4G chipset).. Personally I think it's anecdotal as many others don't have issues, but I'm not precious about absolute bandwidth on WiFi, it's mainly IoT and phones/iPads etc.
This is only phase 1, I'll trial just 2 x U7-Pros (one upstairs, one downstairs), if they don't work that well, I'll dedicate those to 2.4G IoT devices and optimally place them and get 2 x U7 Pro XGS for everything else, the house has been extended a lot, so I have some external walls to get through between old/new and currently have 3 internal APs and 2 external APs, so expect to need more!
Setup so far has been easy, just the UCG-F/Pro-Max-16 and one U7-Pro, I've plugged it in to an isolated port on my current gear (TPLink Omada) for the WAN just to setup/mess around.. I'm away for the weekend, but will get back mid-monday to finish setting things up.
Phase 2 will be cameras, additional APs and maybe a 10G 4 or 8 port switch to allow my NAS 10G connectivity to my PC and also because my NAS has 2 x 10G NICs and I have several virtual VLANned interfaces defined for things like Home Assistant and so the backhaul is useful for internal VLAN ACL rules which pass back to the UCG-F (making it a complete 10G backhaul).. I have to wait for the G6 Turrets in black until July and will then look at if I need the U-NVR or not..
Or something like that, I only dabble and only know enough to be dangerous but its fun!
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My CGF and a flex 2.5G PoE arrived today so I've now swapped my UDMP and 16 port poE switch for this setup.
All setup and running smooth. A couple of cables I'll need to look at though as the U7 Pro is just showing as Gbe.
I'm impressed with the power of this little device. Every item I open from them now just reminds me of apple though.
All setup and running smooth. A couple of cables I'll need to look at though as the U7 Pro is just showing as Gbe.
I'm impressed with the power of this little device. Every item I open from them now just reminds me of apple though.
I had to setup my connection manually on first setup however, I've noticed that I cannot complete a speed test at all and high ping times.
I've noticed my VLAN ID was off so tried setting that to 101 as per Zens settings but it instantly kills the internet. I seem to recall that VPI-0 VCI-38 should be set but cannot locate this?
I've also noticed I can't communicate with the modem. Modem is 192.168.1.1, CGF is on .2.
I did make a backup of settings from the UDMP before swapping out so possibly best just to restore the backup?
I've noticed my VLAN ID was off so tried setting that to 101 as per Zens settings but it instantly kills the internet. I seem to recall that VPI-0 VCI-38 should be set but cannot locate this?
I've also noticed I can't communicate with the modem. Modem is 192.168.1.1, CGF is on .2.
I did make a backup of settings from the UDMP before swapping out so possibly best just to restore the backup?
I'm confused, what connection do you have? Why does the modem have an IP?
Apologies. My wording isn't the best with terminology. The login address for the FTTC modem is 192.168.1.1, the CGF is on the same subnet but given 192.168.1.2.
I'll have to look at it later as currently have a 2 year old in about everything.
I'll have to look at it later as currently have a 2 year old in about everything.
Right, it's FTTC then. The modem does not need an IP, you only need one if you want to use the web UI. The UniFi gateway default LAN IP is 192.168.1.1. It's been a long time since I had FTTC, but I don't remember being able to have the modem L3 address on the same subnet as the LAN IP of the router you're using. The L3 connection to your ISP bridges via the modem, it's not required for internet access.
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As a future upgrade for my eero pro 6, I was looking at the dream router 7,
I would likely need 1 more access point at the rear of house.
Currently have 2 eero pro 6 in wired backhaul configuration.
What AP could I connect to the dream router 7 via wired backhaul?
Needs to be an upgrade over the eero pro 6 (wifi7) and not those disc type APs as I want something free standing?
I have Aquiss 1gbps, generally use WiFi mostly, but have some things wired.
Thanks
I would likely need 1 more access point at the rear of house.
Currently have 2 eero pro 6 in wired backhaul configuration.
What AP could I connect to the dream router 7 via wired backhaul?
Needs to be an upgrade over the eero pro 6 (wifi7) and not those disc type APs as I want something free standing?
I have Aquiss 1gbps, generally use WiFi mostly, but have some things wired.
Thanks
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Sounds like we’re thinking about the same configuration
From my research this week, any of the U7 APs should work via wired backhaul but be aware that the DR7 only supports PoE and not PoE+/++.I’m slightly put off the DR7 because it only supports 2x2 and not 4x4 which should make a big difference to the coverage.
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