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Recently retired.

Have received notification that fees will apply if I keep the card after October.

Sitting in a Centurion Lounge right now, slightly melancholy because there's no way $800/year makes sense for lounge use a few times a year, but HOW CAN I GO BACK TO SITTING AT THE GATE FOR HOURS WITH THE POORS? 😆

Hey all... There was another thread on this a few months ago but locked now.

Anyone know if you can activate Turbo Cool? Sadly our 2 year old fridge is consistently 8-10 degrees warmer than the set temp, but Turbo Cool can bring it down to an appropriate temperature.

I was thinking about a very simple automation with a sensor and HA... 🤞

Unifi is great in that the ecosystem works seamlessly together, but it also makes it hard to know where one feature stops and another starts...

For example, I understand the G6 and AI-series cameras have AI built-in, but if you have a Protect device without the AI capability (like UNVR v1 w/o AI Key, for example) are you wasting money on those cameras vs a G5 with similar specs? Or do the G6/AI still fire off alerts in a way that the Protect can still understand & log, but without further AI processing?

I've seen the videos on using AI in the UNVR G2 to search for "pink shirt," "red truck," & etc., and I assume you need to have either AI Key or the G2 to assign & search for "Bob," or plate # "ABC 123," but does the camera still send [ Face ] / [ License plate ] / [ Deer ] / [ Vehicle ] / etc., to the logs? What do you get from a G6 camera that you don't from a G5?

Thanks in advance!

I add "awkwardly" since it's everywhere on Reddit these days, but relevant here specifically since Ubiquiti has AI in their new cameras, as does the latest version of BI. There are a handful of threads on this subject but they seem to be 3-4-6 years old.
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Anyway... a few years ago I was getting into networking & storage; built a NAS and bought a $30 Amazon camera. Found The Hook Up video where sets up Blue Iris to record his cameras 24x7 in 640x480, but then also record full-resolution when [relevant motion] is detected... I bought 1x Reolink camera and configured it and then got Busy With Life and never did anything more. The BI VM hasn't run in 3+ years.

So now I'm getting into the Ubiquiti ecosystem... I have several access points and two switches, so might as well get Unifi cameras since I'd like to put some around the new house we just moved into. Right now I have the Unifi controller in a VM, but apparently I'll need additional hardware for Protect (some people *may* have it in a VM?)

I'm reluctant to drop $400+ on more hardware when I have 80TB+ in my NAS and I'm vaguely familiar with BI from a few years ago.

Does anyone have G5 / G6 / AI cameras on BI? What is your experience with the AI features?

Hi all - I searched and couldn't find the answers to these...

A few years ago I was getting into networking & storage; built a NAS and bought a $30 Amazon camera. Found a video online where a guy sets up Blue Iris to record his cameras 24x7 in 640x480, but then also record full-resolution when [relevant motion] is detected.

So now I'm getting into the Ubiquiti ecosystem... I have several access points and two switches, so might as well get Unifi cameras. Right now I have the controller in a VM, but apparently I'll need additional hardware for Protect.

Q1: Does the Protect hardware care where it saves files? Can I point it at my NAS?
Q2: Does Protect have the capability to shift recording resolution as described above?
Q3: The cameras with AI... face recognition, license plate tracking, etc., is that in the camera or in the Protect? As in, if I were to stick with Blue Iris for the recording, do I lose the camera AI? (And would have to shift to Blue Iris AI...)
Q4: Is there a question I should be asking here, but am not?

Thanks so much in advance!

I've spent a solid 25 minutes looking around the internets including Aliexpress and there don't seem to be any Zigbee candelabra-base globes out there.

We just moved to a new place and the E12-base Tradfri bulbs I have in the hallway ceiling lights don't let me put the covers back on. Which means I have to change my fixtures.

Annoying... unless someone is hiding a mystery source... lol

Hi all - not really expecting an answer on this one but we just moved into a place with a Bespoke fridge. Freezer and center drawer temps are fine but the fridge compartment hovers in the high 40s, and food is spoiling very fast. We just moved in about 10 days ago so the thing is only maybe 70% full since we haven't had a chance to build up leftovers or anything...

The fridge is set to 34° and I've started punching Turbo Cool every time I think of it. The display shows 22-24° after Turbo Cool is on for a while, but even after being closed all night, the inside is only down to about 42°.

Makes me think that either the sensor the fridge uses to run the compressor is too close to the coils, or there's a fan not working or something? Any thoughts? I looked at the unofficial Samsung tech support Discord but it's 98% unanswered questions...

Thanks in advance!

Hey all... Took off wall plates from switches and outlets to paint a room.

Paint done, I put all the plates back except for one, where the screws just spin in place. When I looked inside the box, the screw holes both look trashed, one completely broken away... and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Suggestions? Don't ask how the plate was on before... 🤷

Possibly rhetorical but if someone has an "in-the-know" answer I'd be super interested...

If people essentially universally believe side wire and back wire are better than back stab, and the construction complexity of side wire seems essentially the same as back wire... why don't Leviton, Eaton, & etc., just standardize on back wire only?

I guess for homebuilding back stab is gonna be faster when those guys are doing a whole house in a morning but... Other'n that... ?

This question came to me as I was replacing old outlets in my living room just now, grumpily pulling out the back stabs and realizing with significant irritation that the Leviton Commercial outlets I bought were side wire only, and not back wire like I thought... *sigh*

Hi all - here's one I can't quite figure out...

We are moving soon. I thought I would take the robot into the new place first thing and run it on a completely empty house so it has the basic floor plan.

Then I realized I won't have internet there yet.

It'll take a few days to move stuff from the old place to the new place, so I was hoping to bring the robot over, do a mapping run, then bring the robot back so it can clean as I pack things up and move them... but I'm not sure if it'll work like I'm hoping. Any ideas?

Current house - came with a Nest. So a few years ago I pulled the Nest off the wall and installed Ecobee 3, integrated via Homekit. I made a generic "fallback" schedule in the Ecobee in case HA goes down for whatever reason.

I also have Zigbee Aqara temperature & humidity sensors in most rooms and have AC kick on if (A) someone is home AND (b) the average temperature in the bedrooms goes above X degrees. Otherwise, if [someone is home], run the fan for 5 minutes after 30 minutes of "idle," [else], run the fan for 5 minutes after 60 minutes of "idle."

--NOW--

New house has two zones, with a Nest in one and an old ~2011 Honeywell on the other.

Should I just find a pair of Ecobee 3s because I'm familiar / comfortable with that setup? Or a Z-Wave dongle and Honeywell T6? Or something else? I saw a thread where people were discussing Aqara thermostat, but "fan" control was a pain.
At some point after evaluating HVAC performance I may also integrate some smart dampers in the ductwork as well, but it's too soon to head down that road.

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Hi all - to satisfy the Bot... 2019 MSLR (Raven) / eastern US.

This fob has worked fine for over two years and a couple of battery changes. Latest new battery was about a month ago and car isn't giving a low battery alert right now, but I'm willing to try swapping it out...

"Symptoms"
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If I walk up to the car, the handles don't immediately Present, I have to double-press the fob and then it unlocks and the handles present.

If I'm sitting in the car for a few minutes without driving, it will seem to forget the fob is there, and ask me to activate the FOB before driving. Double-press turns car on again.

If I'm standing next to the car talking to someone, it will lock and Sentry will go nuts recording me, like as though I don't have the fob right there.

Fob otherwise seems to work normally, with normal range for locking / unlocking / trunk / etc..

Any ideas?

The pre-calculated tip option buttons were [20%], [22%], [25%].

What is with this tip inflation?!

Of course I'm aware that my server didn't pick those numbers. lol
I also always select a manual tip option so I can make my transaction an even dollar amount, but holy cow man.

Working on my design right now.

With mechanical exhaust under the upper bench, and intake vents below the heater and halfway between rocks and ceiling... how do we not have a "bonus" intake vent in the floor? Do you guys put a P-trap in the floor drain?

Hi all - I have an avocado grown from seed; about 8 months old now. "Born and raised" inside / over the winter.

Moved it outside on the SW-facing side of our house a few weeks ago. It gets direct sun for 90 minutes or so around noon before the sun moves behind the front yard magnolia tree, then it's dappled sun for the rest of the afteroon.

Anyway, shortly after going outside, its leaves turned brown. OK, probably sunburn, there are baby leaves so we'll see how they do.

Those baby leaves grew to full size, then turned brown and wilted.

OK, but there are another set of baby leaves, we'll see how they do.

Now those leaves are full sized and starting to turn brown.

There are another set of baby leaves forming, but it has me wondering... how long will this cycle go on? Surely after a month of being outside they're not still getting sunburn?