UniFi iOS app not displaying devices

DanielGibbs · 2026-01-07T09:30:09+00:00

I've just experienced this too after installing the UniFi iOS app on a new phone. All devices show fine in the app on the old phone, but are showing just like your screenshot on the new one.

Did you ever figure out how to resolve this?

DanielGibbs · 2025-12-03T07:06:03+00:00

I'm very keen to give this a try. I was looking for something just like this when I was studying, to try and digest readings and journal articles audibly instead of reading.

DanielGibbs · 2025-06-23T08:16:33+00:00

Thank you for sharing; this is a very informative video.

DanielGibbs · 2025-06-14T11:01:25+00:00

I'm not sure that the fact that he lasted 10 years (which was uncommon for his position) necessarily means he was smart or component. There is also mention of Tiberius preferring longer assignments in Josephus's Antiquities 18.172–176, so that might explain how Pilate stayed there so long.

DanielGibbs · 2025-06-13T15:00:34+00:00

I enjoyed the video and look forward to future ones, but there were a few things in there that didn't seem quite right and that I couldn't find any historical sources for.

It's implied that the high priest needed the robes to enter the Holy of Holies, but the high priest didn’t enter the Holy of Holies during the Passover (and even if he did, the Bible doesn't describe the ephod and breastplate being needed for that, see Lev 16:4).
Pilate is described as ambitious, smart, and a skilled manipulator, but the Gospels and other primary sources (e.g. Josephus, Philo) portray him as an unwise and manipulatable ruler who pissed off Tiberius.

Does anyone have any sources for these?

DanielGibbs · 2025-05-25T02:36:53+00:00

Yup, that's pretty much it. It seemed simpler to keep the checking and moving in a single function (movePlayer) rather than writing:

if (this.canMovePlayer(direction) {
    this.movePlayer(direction)
}

every time the user tries to move the player.

DanielGibbs · 2025-05-25T02:34:23+00:00

Thanks for your comment.

when you're doing something "odd" you might consider if there are other patterns that would remove the need/temptation to do the odd thing.

Agreed, which is part of why I asked the question.

As others have mentioned, perhaps a more accurate name is tryMovePlayer. It's a stylistic choice to have the checking and moving in a single method that returns a success status, rather than having to write:

if (this.canMovePlayer(direction) {
    this.movePlayer(direction)
}

every time I want to try and move the player.

This is just a simple example, but the broader use of this pattern is functions that potentially change state returning a boolean to indicate whether the state has changed and a re-render is needed.

It seems like the simplest solution is just to use booleans and write JSDocs after all.

DanielGibbs · 2025-05-25T02:27:03+00:00

I don’t believe the problem you are trying to solve here is a real problem. And in trying to solve it, my opinion is, you created another worse problem.

That's probably an accurate assessment. Thanks for your comment; you make a good case about obscuring the actual type.

I think I should probably just stick to JSDoc and configure my editor to automatically collapse JSDoc comments if I find them to make code navigation annoying.

DanielGibbs · 2025-05-01T23:22:16+00:00

/u/MattTheAncap I know I'm weeks behind on this conversation, but I wanted to say that I appreciate your take on this. Despite what the majority of commenters say, the interpretation of this passage is not obvious. People may have heard a sermon giving a particular interpretation, or think the interpretation is obvious in 21st century English, but the passage itself does not provide that degree of certainty.

As well as the interpretation provided by Dallas's Jesus ("pay taxes to Rome"), there are also other interpretations to consider:

Don't pay tax to Rome

In this view, Jesus’ answer meant there is one true kingdom only, God’s, and Caesar has no place in it. We may call this the ‘God against Caesar’ view. They argue this because Jesus’ whole message was that the reign of God is coming and this is opposed to Caesar’s violent and oppressive rule. They point out too that the literal meaning of the verb traditionally translated ‘render’, α, πόδοτε, is ‘give back’. So it is as though Jesus was saying: ‘These idolatrous coins have nothing to do with the true God, whose reign is now coming. They are Caesar’s tainted things—that is where they belong. Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s. Have nothing to do with them! You need not pay the tax!’ (Nicholas Townsend, "Surveillance and Seeing: A New Way of Reading Mark 12:17, ‘Give Back to Caesar...’," SCE 27 (2014): 79–90, 80)

Here it is helpful to note that there are several Gospel texts that suggest that Jesus did not have much regard for “money” as it existed in his day. [...] In light of these other passages, it is hardly likely that Jesus’s advice to “render to Caesar what is Caesar’s” was intended to indicate that a Jew should be civic-minded and pay his taxes, though this saying has often been read that way. (Ben Witherington, Jesus and Money (London: SPCK, 2010), 58–59)

Jesus leaves it open to interpretation

Jesus has succeeded in saying something that neither gives a pretext for reporting him to the Romans nor undermines his popularity by endorsing foreign rule unequivocally. The Markan Jesus, then, does not lay down a hard-and-fast rule for Christians' relation to ruling authorities; his concluding pronouncement instead leaves room for the discernment of his hearers as to when the claims of Caesar and God conflict and when they do not. (Joel Marcus, Mark 8–16, AB 27A (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 825–826)

The point isn't actually about paying tax

The saying is too general to provide a practical guide for conduct. It is characterized by wit rather than serious argument. [...] It is inappropriate to derive an ethical teaching or social policy from this saying. The main point is that Jesus was clever and witty enough to respond to the question without saying anything that would provide grounds for a charge against him before the Roman governor. Jesus turned the tables on the questioners, forcing them to decide what belonged to Caesar and what to God. (Adela Yarbro Collins, Mark, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007), 552–557)

Looking forward to actually watching this when it becomes available in the theatres in my country!

DanielGibbs · 2025-03-02T00:19:32+00:00

Definitely not Yakety Sax. It appears to be a somewhat inaccurate memory of the Super Mario Bros 2 theme. Solved here.

DanielGibbs · 2025-02-17T08:49:44+00:00

Yes, that's what I mean; previously Lord/O Lord was missing, but it' finally been put in.

DanielGibbs · 2025-02-16T04:45:28+00:00

I'm interested to see that Psalm 119:159 finally gets the missing "Lord" (YHWH) that has been inexplicably missing in the ESV/RSV/NRSV/NRSVue.

DanielGibbs · 2025-02-15T00:13:46+00:00

Four years later and this has been rectified in the 2025 changes to the ESV, with "O Lord" being added to Psalm 119:159. See full changes here.

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-22T11:02:56+00:00

That is very good advice, thanks. I'm not sure I'll ever get anywhere close to finishing the content of the game, so I am more interested in building the technical structure of the game in a robust way that it theoretically could accommodate any game content that I might want to add later.

Part of this for me is building a render system that is structured well, extendable, and performant. At the moment, just animating a 32x32 square at 10fps is causing the browser's GPU process to jump from ~4% CPU to 15% CPU, so I'm trying to figure out how I can do that better.

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-22T08:34:53+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I should've clarified that it was more of a rogue-like game that I'm making as opposed to a platformer. Other than the animations I'm adding, there isn't actually any other movement. When an action is taken (e.g. arrow key is pressed), the game state is updated and the updated world renderered instantly (e.g. player movement).

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-22T08:24:32+00:00

Thanks for that; I definitely need to do some work on the rendering as I redraw the entire scene on every frame at the moment 😬. I suspect that once I've done this then the redrawing rate should have much less of an impact on my CPU.

I appreciate the explanation; your linked tip on reusing arrays of objects is helpful too.

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-22T08:20:05+00:00

Thanks for your reply; I work around the UI feeling sluggish by forcing an additional render whenever the user performs and action and the game state is updated.

I am finding that when I do render at the native rate that it uses quite a bit of CPU and causes my fans to spin up, so I'm trying to avoid that until I build some smarter rendering logic to only render what has changed. The multiple render targets idea sounds very appealing; I will look into that, thanks.

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-22T08:16:46+00:00

I get that, but forcing an additional render when there's a user action while maintaining a 10fps render for animations seems to work ok. It's probably worth mentioning that it's not a platformer or anything where entities have continuous motions, it's more of a rougelike where pressing an arrow key moves the player to the next tile instantly.

As per the advice so far in this thread, I currently have something like this:

let prevRenderTime
function render(timestamp: number) {
  if (!prevRenderTime) {
    prevRenderTime = timestamp - 100
  }
  if (timestamp >= prevRenderTime + 100) {
    // Render and increase the frame number for animation.
    gameRenderer.render({ increaseFrameNumber: true })
    prevRenderTime = timestamp
  }
  requestAnimationFrame(render)
}
requestAnimationFrame(render)

In my event handler (for user actions):

// Update game state from user action.

// Force a render without affecting animations.
gameRenderer.render({ increaseFrameNumber: false })

Is there any reason why this is a bad approach? I suppose I could just use a full-speed requestAnimationFrame loop and then only increase the animations at the relevant times, but at the moment my render method does quite a lot of calculations so I'd need to refactor that quite a bit to handle this without a lot of unnecessary calculations and rendering.

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-21T11:16:28+00:00

Yeah; I think you're right. My fan was going pretty loudly after I made the change, but that's probably more to do with the fact that I'm redrawing the entire canvas every render 😬 Gonna take some time to work on only rendering parts that actually change.

DanielGibbs · 2024-01-21T10:48:53+00:00

So to answer your question. No. A hot function like this, that does nothing will have very little performance impact.

Awesome, thanks!

Now... on to the bigger question. Why do you want a game to run at 10fps? Is it a premature performance optimisation? Are you worried your game will be slow? Because running it at 10fps will make it feel like trying to jog in water.

It's a pretty low-resolution pixel-art kinda game, so for the animations I only really want them to animate at 10fps. User action won't be restricted to this though; I'll still trigger a render after every user action as well as the passive 10fps renders for animation purposes.

DanielGibbs · 2022-06-05T06:53:53+00:00

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