r/Ubiquiti

Hi everyone! I'm a longtime lurker but now might actually be able to build my first home lab! I've got a local seller who's moving to a condo and getting rid of his lab. Most of this was purchased in April/May of 2024. We've agreed on $1,300 for this. Would you do it or have hesitations on used equipment? It all works properly. Anything you'd ask before buying? I've never gone into prosumer hardware so am honestly unsure if I should be hesitant. Thank you for the help!

I've been awaiting a single email notification from Ubiquiti for two months now. Don't worry though, for significant discounts, through upstanding companies like those below, you can get one of your own!

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Seriously, it's amazing! Blowout sales! Only 3x to 4.5x MSRP. So much inventory! Get tours today!

Truely, thank you Ubiquiti, for everything you do.

On a serious note, maybe, one day, they'll crack down on resellers. Today, is not that day though. For now, maybe we can come together and find the companies behind the company and we can all choose to boycott the scalpers.

We’ve had our AI PTZ industrial camera for about a year now, and I’ve been really pleased with it – it’s easily one of my favourite purchases. Shortly after fitting it, some suspicious characters were hanging around the neighbourhood, and the police were impressed by the image quality. Person tracking has been brilliant, so I was delighted to hear about the new vehicle tracking feature.

However, after checking the event log today, it’s clear the feature is still finding its feet. Even with the default sensitivity, any vehicle within two pixels of the frame sets it off. If another car whizzes past, the camera spins and focuses on whatever it can see – even if it’s stationary. By ‘whizzes’, I mean anything over 15–20 mph seems to do it in my case. I’m thinking of switching it off because it’s so unreliable that it’s hard to use.

The PTZ movement is also quite jerky. The camera is mounted high on the corner of our house and only needs to rotate on one axis to cover the road, so I’m not sure why it keeps pointing at the sky. Looking at the clips I’ve shared, you’d think I was nudging it with the app – it’s that jumpy.

Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

Just spent 4100 cad on the unvr pro g2, warranty and two 16tb hard drives
Will get more drives soon (assuming I’m still alive)

This is how we here are supposed to go on holiday, right, RIGHT?

Local SIM in auxilerary phone, tethered to UTR and into the UX7.

My first foray into home networking ... Did I do good?

I bought one of the Air Quality / Vape sensors to measure interior air quality (CO2, VOC, PM2.5) and had some reasonable confirmations of things I suspected, but was also surprised and have changed a few habits around the house as a result.

Background:

• We live in a pretty dirty city, not super far from freeways. Urban 2-4 level homes and apartments with decently heavy vehicle traffic within a block distance.
• We have A/C but no forced air or central air
• We rent so there are some things outside our control, like mechanical ventilation.
• I've been moving the sensor between living areas and the bedroom day/night because if it wouldn't cost me as much as my UDM, I'd probably have 4-5 of these things 😆

The exciting stuff:

• Sleeping in our room with the door closed builds up CO2 significantly, even with the wall A/C running (it's closed loop). Most of the longer peaks visible in the CO2 graph are overnights. Overnight CO2 levels >1,000 ppm can cause fogginess, headaches, and more!
• Cooking on the gas range also spikes the CO2, even with the hood fan on and a window open! I'd have to inspect PM1.0 and maybe VOCs further, but obviously the UP Air Quality sensor is not going to measure methane, Benzene, or CO so yeah ... watch out for that.

Nominal observations:

• Spraying cologne or perfume spikes VOC/TVOC, understandably. VOCs also slowly climb somewhat in a warm, undisturbed room
• An open window keeps indoor CO2 around a baseline of 475-525 ppm
• We have ~zero vape detections because we do not vape. I'm sure hair spray or canned air duster (VOCs in that case) could maybe trick the Vape sensor if you tried.
• Sometimes the temperature or PM2.5 will spike when the unit is power cycled. False readings as the sensors are initialized/calibrated.

Nice realizations:

• I presume we're going to reduce the incidence rate of headaches at home now that we open a window and leave the bedroom door cracked overnight. ☺️
• Indoor PM2.5 is really low (<2μg/m³), spiking only with heavy activity, in/out, or cleaning/dusting. Outdoor PM2.5 daily averages in our area are 50-70μg/m³. Despite multiple open windows, our Coway Airmega HEPA filters (2x in 850 SQFT) do a great job. 🙏

Finally, completed home network upgrade, and moved all devices to rack in garage. The backbone network is a 10g fiber aggregation switch with a 10g copper switch.

Edit: Learn, not lean or lear 😄

I was starting to think I’d just about got my second rack all squared away. I had to change it from my original setup due to the dept of my new UNAS Pro 4.

Annnd then I tried to put the door on and realized that in my concern about depth, I’d foolishly put the front rails WAY too far forward.

Sigh.

My first Dream wall installation! Looking good

Well I got shamed last post and spent some bucks on fixing it. I did it myself I couldn't afford Unify and an installer. Still not perfect but I feel a lot better about it. I did get the XGSPON ONU to replace att fiber modem, put a active cooler on it. Also to rack my UCG Fiber and USW Pro XG 8 poe, I reused the case on an old NVR that died on me, I just gutted it so it like a nice rack shelf. It also has three active fans in the back that I rigged up.

Nothing crazy, little overkill, but happy with what I got. For now. 😊

What you see here is powering the following…

1 - Pro XG AP
2 - U6+ AP’s (will upgrade 1 or both to the XG)
3 - Flex Minis
1 - USW Lite 8 PoE
1 - USL Gateway w/3 USL Entry Sensors
1 - Doorbell Lite w/1 PoE chime & 2 Smart WiFi Chimes
1 - G6 180
1 - G6 Bullet
1 - G6 Instant

Also have the U5G Backup if either one of the fiber Internet connections drops (wife works from home).

Hope you all approve and like what you see!

Installed my 16pro max Poe switch into the toolless mini rack (on the mini rack shelf).

Turns out my home assistant green fits next to it perfectly. (PSU for the switch sits on the shelf behind it)

For those interested - the 16 pro isn’t screwed into place, but as its sat on a shelf I’m not too bothered by it moving around a little on the rare occasion I have to change a patch cable.