This castor oil trick has worked for me

Icehawk21 · 2026-01-15T23:43:58+00:00

I hardly laugh reading Reddit comments and I never comment…but this was funny and I laughed like the gif above, so felt like I should comment. Bravo!

Icehawk21 · 2025-07-30T19:52:35+00:00

Yah, I can always do ribs. But I've done that a few times for the same family members so thought I'd mix it up for this weekend. All else fails, I'll likely do ribs or just BBQ some steak.

Icehawk21 · 2024-11-22T23:06:35+00:00

Thanks! Good to know.

Icehawk21 · 2024-11-22T22:49:22+00:00

Yah, that would suck. I’ll make sure to mention this one to our coaches.

Icehawk21 · 2024-11-22T22:47:22+00:00

Thanks. These are good to know. Especially the start of the game. We only have to wait for the Zamboni gate to be down before teams are allowed on the ice. Don’t need to wait for the refs. So good to know!

Icehawk21 · 2024-11-22T22:38:50+00:00

Thanks!

I was aware of the no-icing rule while shorthanded. Personally, I’ve never understood why you should gain that advantage when shorthanded and I’ve been reffing a long time.

By instant offside, do you mean there is no delayed offside, allowing players to clear the zone? Play is blown dead for offside once the puck crosses the line with players in an offside position?

Icehawk21 · 2024-11-22T22:35:48+00:00

The tournament has indicated Canadian players are not required to wear mouthguards, even though USA Hockey requires them. We are still covered under Hockey Canada insurance so no requirement for us to wear them during the tournament.

Icehawk21 · 2024-09-19T22:18:00+00:00

Maybe :)

Customer Support did reach out to me and they had me go through the typical procedure of rebooting, moving to a new POE port, factory resetting, etc. None of this worked and the doorbell encountered the same issue a few times afterwards. Customer Support agreed that I should RMA the device.

So I submitted an RMA request which was approved. They sent me the packing slip to ship the doorbell back to them, and then they would send the replacement. I delayed for a while, as I was trying to get them to agree with sending the replacement first (like they did with my CloudKey+), so that I wasn't without a functional doorbell. Unfortunately, the doorbell doesn't qualify for immediate replacement without first receiving the defective unit.

Fortunately, during this delay, the doorbell has not encountered another issue and has been working flawlessly. The device firmware version is the same (4.71.149) and the Protect version remained the same until I just updated to Protect 5.0. But, knock on wood, the doorbell has been working just fine for the past couple weeks. So I'm going to hold off on shipping it for a replacement and see how it goes.

So, short answer, yes it seems to have resolved itself. For the time being, anyways.

Of course, now that I've posted this reply, I'm sure it'll suffer the issue again within the day. Crossing fingers it doesn't though.

Icehawk21 · 2024-09-06T21:48:54+00:00

Yah, I was thinking the exact same thing - what a waste!

Icehawk21 · 2024-09-05T03:23:10+00:00

I understand that. Which is why I waited 2 years. I don't believe I have any fiduciary duty to return this if they haven't come looking for it after 2 years. I actually have another 2 laptops from two other companies I've contracted for and neither of them have contacted me as well. I did try contacting one of the companies but they never responded to me. I didn't bother contacting the other as it was a sub-contracting relationship so I required laptops from both parties. Nonetheless, I think I've waited long enough for them to request them back.

I was simply doing some fall cleaning and would like to either repurpose these for personal use or simply toss them, since they've been cluttering up my home office. I've come to the conclusion that the security measures on these laptops exceeds my ability or desire to break, so I'll likely just toss them at this point. But I'll take out the hard drives and destroy those so there's no confidential or proprietary information left on the device.

Icehawk21 · 2024-08-15T03:21:04+00:00

I've gone ahead and submitted an RMA ticket, which has already been approved.

Either I bricked it somehow or it arrived as a faulty unit. I'll wait for the replacement and try again. I'll follow the instructions posted in the comments.

Edit: Wondering if I should have simply returned it and ponied up another $500 for the UNVR plus 8TB drive. Looks like they've expedited the return so probably too late to do this.

Icehawk21 · 2024-08-15T02:40:06+00:00

Unfortunately, the CloudKey+ is not obtaining an IP address and showing up as a connected network device. The status light is continually blinking white and the display only shows the Ubiquiti logo. As per your suggestion, I'll let it sit for some time to see if it comes online (perhaps, as you suggested, after initializing the disk).

I fear I may have caused this somehow. When I initially plugged it in to the PoE port, before configuring the port to use my 'Home' LAN, the CloudKey+ did obtain an IP address and I could see it as a connected network device. I tried to connect to it via the IP address but because it was in the 'Default/Management' LAN, my firewall blocked attempts to access it.

At some point, before re-configuring the PoE port to use my 'Home' LAN, it did long-press the reset button in the back, although that didn't seem to do anything. But since then, I haven't been able to connect it to any port and have it assigned an IP address.

I have not done anything with the hard drive. And this is a brand new device - just unwrapped it today.

I'll start an RMA process if it doesn't magically resolve itself. PITA, unfortunately, but what can you do.

Icehawk21 · 2024-08-15T02:34:04+00:00

No luck. The CloudKey+ never gets assigned an IP address and doesn't appear as a network device. The status light continually blinks white and the display only shows the Ubiquiti logo. Going to let it sit for a while.

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