u/The_Viking-22315

For a while now I've been running Firewalla purple with eero mesh (currently eero 7s) - its been working fine - but I don't like how expensive it is to get things like outdoor AP for my eero mesh, and I'd also like it all to be managed as one setup, not 2. (Eeros are in bridge mode)

Well, Gateway fiber (my ISP) just let me move from 1000up/down to 2000up/down at the same cost, so of course I took it. My firewalla purple only can do 1000, so in order to take advantage of it, I either had to get a better Firewalla, but in looking at prices, Unifi just seemed like a better deal, and this as the ideal moment to step into the ecosystem.

Got the Cloud gateway fiber and an 8 port Flex (2.5gb) today, hooked my 3 hardwired eero's into the gateway, I have a 1 gb dumb switch that I've been using, and put that and all my other hardwired devices into the flex (With just some things like my raspberry pi and other utility things) going into the old switch.

So impressed with the Unifi UI and configuration and ease already. Now I'm all set for when I am ready to get APs switched out, but no hurry, a friend has some older Unifi APs i might grab to get outdoor coverage (since I mostly need it to reach my smoker, and just need 2.4ghz for that)

I have had a Gravity 800 for a while, but eventually rust and a lot of use made it ready for retirement, but since I loved it so much, I replaced it with another Gravity 800, this time with some LSS mods (firebox and manifold cover).

Put the whole thing together on Saturday and went to fire it up, and it had an Error 1. Some digging, trying, testing, and nothing cleared it, so eventually I connected the temperature probe from my old unit, and boom, it worked. So irritated as I was, I ordered a new probe from Amazon and figured I'd be good to go.

Come today, put the new probe in, fires up no errors, but fan won't turn on. I remember when assembling thinking that some wires didn't look right, so I checked out the wiring for the door switches, and two of the wires in the wiring harness just pulled straight out, so clearly the harness had issues too.

Got the Harness out of my old unit, put it into the new one, and now everything is happy - but wtf? How can this pass quality control?

I put in a warranty claim to Masterbuilt, we'll see what comes back.