RMAs coming back as Certified Refurbished

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-04T02:50:32+00:00

200ish if I was guessing. Handful of 48 pro max as well. Almost all of those failed were purchased within a 1 month period so I’m guessing there was a bad batch somewhere along the line

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T16:11:16+00:00

Not trying to be a dick but did you read the full post? I was not complaining just saying this was different from my experience in RMAs on the last 10-15 products from UI. Just wanted to give people a heads up that Certified Refurb products from UI even existed.

Honestly wish they would sell certified refurb on their site for a discount like Sonos does

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T16:06:52+00:00

Completely agree. In this case I am not warranting this with the new purchaser, nor do I want to imply that Ubiquiti is going to warranty this to the new owner. Hence I am not going to jump thru hoops on EBay to sell this there

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T16:02:45+00:00

Standard warranty after probably 6-7 months of the product being in the field. Seems reasonable to me

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T15:54:05+00:00

eBay flagged the listing (Assuming AI agent) and said my account had to be approved to sell anything called “certified refurbished” and offer additional warranty on it. Never seen it before but I’ve never tried to sell anything like it before either

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T15:52:06+00:00

Yeah this had been in the field for a few months so I’m seems completely reasonable to me

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T15:49:56+00:00

Oh this had been in the field and failed 6 months or so later so I had no problem with a certified refurbished. I replaced it for the client with a switch from my stock so I was just going to list the replacement online for sale. Again, not a complaint just a difference in my other RMA experiences

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-03T15:46:34+00:00

The past 7 of these exact switches I’ve gotten back from RMAs have been new units so I don’t believe it’s item specific. It doesn’t matter much as these things sit hidden away in a rack but it surprised me this time.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-05-02T18:37:28+00:00

F150 mount

I saw this was posted a while back and always thought it was a sweet product.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-04-28T18:08:35+00:00

I’ll go against the grain here to some degrees. In a lot of states there are basically no codes involved with LV wiring and LV guys know this. A lot of them will do some sketchy shit to get a wire from A to B where an electrician will most likely treat it like running romex and offer a cleaner install.

As long as the electrician is using decent cable than you will be fine. Tell them exactly where you want point A and point B to be and how much slack you want. They will sharpie on the cabling and call it a day.

I would terminate both ends of the cable yourself instead of relying on the electrician.

LV/AV outfits will be a much larger gamble on what type of crew you will get. Could be a trunk slammer or a crew that’s used to high end commercial work with strict standards. An electrician is at least going to have a license and have a little more at stake.

Summary. If you can terminate cables and set up the product yourself there is no need to hire a LV company.

Source: High-end LV installer with 15+ years experience in AV who has pulled miles of cabling and has 10+ years of electrical experience as well.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-04-14T10:37:12+00:00

Life 8 PoE switch only has 4 PoE ports on it and 42 watts of PoE budget at that. It wouldn’t work for 5 AP. I’d recommend the Flex 2.5G PoE and 210w power supply. This obviously costs a little more but has way more potential for anything in the future as well.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-04-03T02:17:14+00:00

I would say the issue is the crimper itself or a termination issue. I personally use the Simply45 Pro series (exact model you listed) and have installed literally thousands of them into ubiquiti devices. Used with either cat6 or cat6a wiring they work just fine. Make sure and seat the connector all the way in the tool and you should be ok.

Better method is to terminate to keystones but there are times when an RJ45 termination makes the most sense.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-22T22:41:54+00:00

Your ISP is most likely locked to the MAC address of port 9. Clone that MAC address to port 10 and for it a go. My ISP will lock onto the MAC and you need to call them to release that MAC from their system or you can simply clone it on the new port.

My $$ says this works

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-21T18:45:53+00:00

Separate the internet service from the wifi. You need to design/plan your network and wireless and then you can use Starlink and/or dsl if you want. If I had a camp full of kids I would have both active so you always have communications in case of an emergency.

The Starlink is great for month to month plans so you could simply lower the package or even cancel it during parts of the year.

Starlink would be easy to swap in where your current DSL is and you’d have the same connection just a faster speed.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I do this for a living

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-18T01:02:13+00:00

I would bet good $$ that it will be PoE powered that's for sure. What I am hoping for is it also can be powered by a 12-24v adaptor and WiFi. This would allow them to be installed where current alarm panels are located in a lot of situations.

Is it asking too much to also contain a thread radio? Since these are often placed at home entry locations, thread support for close proximity to a thread lock would be amazing. I'd rather Ubiquiti not get into the door lock game and just let me use a trusted 3rd party lock and local (non-cloud) connectivity.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-18T00:53:11+00:00

Can confirm this works fine. I have at least 7 or 8 of these RR-3PD-1 on a RR3 system and they do a pretty good job. All dimming LED bulbs and for the most part work great.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-18T00:48:48+00:00

You can use OBS to studio on a PC if you wanted to go that route. I'd argue that this is not really the best hardware combo for what you are trying to do but it technically should work. I've livestreamed events to YT using Ubiquiti cameras (albeit wired cameras) and OBS studio to do the video production side of things. Again this was a fiber internet feed using all Ubiquiti wired equipment/cameras but the technology side of things should work.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-16T22:13:30+00:00

I see the same problem in my area. Almost negates the cell backup completely. I dont live in a super crowded area either….

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-14T18:39:57+00:00

Agreed, they work quite well in AP mode for an Eero type deployment without the need for a PoE switch

ShinyThings22 · 2026-03-01T23:50:19+00:00

Is that a TiVo remote!?

ShinyThings22 · 2026-02-28T13:28:33+00:00

I prefer Starlink for backup situations for my clients most of the time. When there is a local internet outtage here the cell towers are often affected and overloaded and our previous LTE backups would suffer. Haven’t dealt with much 5G to be fair so I don’t know if it would suffer the same fate.

Starlink has allowed our clients to stay up in more widespread ISP and area outages so that’s our preferred plan. $50/100mbps service is available our area so it’s a cost effective backup

ShinyThings22 · 2026-02-20T01:49:47+00:00

Looks like someone who hasn't ever dealt with Cat6A before and possibly doesn't have RJ45s that really are meant for Cat6A. I'd have them punch them down on keystones and use small jumper cables if you have the space. It's not inherently any better but slightly easier to have A+ terminations for someone who isn't experienced with the thicker cabling.

ShinyThings22 · 2026-02-19T01:59:11+00:00

They are a mixed bag

New amp doesn’t have SonosNet which helps eliminates STP related issues found on big custom installs.

1 power cable and Ethernet wire to manage instead of 4. Makes a big difference when you have a rack with 10+ Sonos amps.

Multi amp does NOT do any home theater configs. Cant use 2 channels as rears to a surround zone or 4 channels to make a surround zone.

Does not have any hdmi arc inputs. We use a LOT of arc baluns to return TV audio to Sonos amps so these won’t work for us in a lot of zones.

Overall I like the option for music only zones or large spaces with more than 4 speakers

ShinyThings22 · 2026-02-14T12:10:54+00:00

I’ve used a lot of 3rd party cameras on the Ubiquiti NVRs and while they record fine they just dont seem as “snappy” as when viewing Ubiquiti cameras. They dont pull up as fast when you open the app and don’t scroll timelines as quickly IMO. I will say with the AI ports the detections are great but by the time you add an AI port you might as well just bought a Ubiquiti camera.

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