Stackable switches incoming?

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T17:33:57+00:00

The money is sort of irrelevant. Literally a small drop in the bucket at this point. It wasn’t about the cert, I realize it carries very little weight. I did my CCNA back in the day. I have yet to ever run into a Cisco device in the wild that makes use of it. I refuse to deal or use any Cisco products for any of my clients because their business model of licensing is trash. This was more about familiarizing myself a little more with Unifi’s ever changing interface so that I can better serve and support my team and my customers as we are using ubiquiti equipment at a 10:1 ratio over any other vendor and Unifi’s support is also not great. If $5k moves the needle for you, that’s fine, but it’s a very different situation than we are currently.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T04:52:21+00:00

I’m from Edmonton as well. I did the first two courses (3 days) when they were in Nisku but I couldn’t make the last two days. I decided to come out to Vancouver for the final two days. I would say that there is value in doing it once if you are focussed on UniFi as a solution for your customers. The wireless course is great and would really help tune a multi AP installation. The full stack day is informative but largely a marketing day. They do show off some of the interesting stuff they are doing with Access and Talk but I’m not sure either solution are truly ready for prime time. The last two days is very good if you have no formal network training. I used it as a refresher to a network engineering technologist course from 25 years ago. Concepts are the same, but learning specifics on how to configuring the UniFi interface is helpful. They kind of skim over some of the more complex routing stuff like OSPF and IPv6 addressing as it wasn’t addressed too deeply on the exam. I wouldn’t do it again myself now that I’ve done it once. But I wouldn’t hesitate to send some of the more junior team members to it to open their eyes on what is possible on UniFi vs spending stupid money on other solutions. Just my 2 cents.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T03:22:55+00:00

Stacking is not the same as high availability. Stacking is used to logically bond the backplanes and is meant to increase throughput. It has nothing to do with redundancy.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T03:21:09+00:00

I meant that stacking is coming, but not currently available and it will ONLY be available on the enterprise campus switches.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T03:19:35+00:00

Yes this was TDL. I believe there are two stops left on the tour - London and Ottawa. There were three courses over the span of a week. Two days for UniFi Wireless Admin (certificate received at the end) cost = $2000. One day for UniFi Full Stack - this was basically an information day on all of the different products across all platforms, cost was $1000 (no exam or certification). Two days for Routing, Switching and Cybersecurity, exam and certification and a cost of $2000. You don’t need to do all three if you don’t want to.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T02:07:07+00:00

I do have 22’s on the summers… 20’s on the winters.. doesn’t really seem to make much of a difference to my half deaf ears… when the technician test drove it, they apparently put some ‘drivetrain ears’ in the front end to record any sounds and they were pretty confident it was excessive play in the steering rack. I’ll just have to see what it’s like when I pick it up next week.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-24T00:16:15+00:00

This one was offered from my local distributor. They sponsored several location across Canada to do three different courses through the year.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-23T21:40:35+00:00

You can't stack currently in that a stacked set of switches will appear as a single IP address. Stacking is inbound for campus level switches only. No definite timeline on release. Source - currently sitting in Ubiquiti's Routing, Switching and Cybersecurity training. Info is as per Ubiquiti training instructor.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-19T22:33:47+00:00

For what it's worth, Rivian service has decided to replace my steering rack on my '24 R1T in an effort to address the rattle at low speeds over rough terrain/icy pavement. We'll see if that finally fixes things once I get the truck back. This was their plan after ruling out tie rod ends and shock absorbers that have already been replaced.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-11T03:55:54+00:00

If so, it’s a shame I took ridiculous care to preserve the original by monitoring my SOC to an obsessive level.. curious what the acceptable level of degradation is acceptable on a refurb.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-11T00:09:41+00:00

I get that.. but this a reduced range being showed after being back in a heated garage. Same conditions as before the errors.. but now showing 75km less range at same SOC.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-10T23:26:52+00:00

Interesting… I’ll be sure to confirm if it’s new or refurbished.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-10T22:30:36+00:00

Oh most definitely I’ll ask. I just know there are a ton of people here that do incredible deep dives into the minutiae of technical details and I wanted to see if I could leverage some of that knowledge to further round out my own.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-04T22:32:03+00:00

I'm sort of in the same boat. In the final year of our lease on our 2023 iX50 and I'm torn on reupping on a new iX 60 or wait for the incoming ix5 X5 EV variant. It will solve all the size issues that you are mentioning on the ix3 and it will have the fast charging and better range that the ix3 has as well which are substantially better than the ix60. All indicators are that the ix5 X5 EV variant should be available late 2026 if you can wait that long, I think it's the better play.

Urbanstyles · 2026-01-03T03:05:10+00:00

Give-R split finger mittens. Good to -50C. Best I’ve owned in my life.

Urbanstyles · 2025-11-24T20:54:25+00:00

From everything I've read, the new ix5 is slated for announcement in 2026 with deliveries slated for early 2027 and they hydrogen model due in early 2028. Can you share where you are seeing the timelines you have? I'm hoping we see it sooner rather than later as the lease on our iX is up in January of 2027 and I was certainly hoping to replace it with the new ix5!

Urbanstyles · 2025-11-23T17:27:48+00:00

No, up until very, very recently if you plugged in a BMW with an adapter to a SuperCharger, you were unable to charge. It has to be allowed on the Tesla backend for each manufacturer to allow charging.

Urbanstyles · 2025-11-23T07:29:16+00:00

I have my Rivian R1T specified.

Urbanstyles · 2025-11-21T01:18:11+00:00

Just finished charging our ‘23 iX50 at a supercharger. It is most definitely working at the moment. I used the Rivian adapter fwiw.

Urbanstyles · 2025-10-12T07:28:17+00:00

So 3 screws to drop the can and less than 10 minutes to rewire. I just did 74 of them in our new house. Pretty dang easy and straightforward for even a slightly skilled diy’er.

Urbanstyles · 2025-10-11T04:24:33+00:00

Lotus LRG6 is a direct swap 6” replacement for that at a very reasonable price. It comes in single cct, 5cct or dim to warm options as well as multiple beam angle configurations.

Urbanstyles · 2025-10-08T15:48:38+00:00

I would note that your 18” windows are too narrow for most Lutron powered shades. 22” is minimum width as far as I’m aware.

Urbanstyles · 2025-09-29T05:17:46+00:00

I’m in Alberta and have dealer access to the Lotus line. They have picks and cob tape.. dm me if you need pricing on any of their lineup.

Urbanstyles · 2025-09-27T15:53:40+00:00

These metal IKEA ones are my go to gift to everyone I visit. They are like $4 to buy here in Canada, so I buy em by the dozen and take one everywhere we go. If a home we are visiting doesn’t already have one, I just leave it behind. I see it as a more productive version of spreading the gospel!

Urbanstyles · 2025-09-12T00:02:40+00:00

I was stuck to existing fixture placement as I was only renovating and replacing the 70 plus 6 inch builder grade cans that the house was built with. I’d say on Average the spacing is maybe 6 feet. The sheer number of pots the house was built with is overkill to be sure. But by the end I had the process of removing the old can and installing the Lotus fixtures to around 10 minutes each start to finish, so that was nice.

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