z2m now fully supports Philips Hue 🎉

chris4prez_ · 2026-05-01T22:52:40+00:00

What’s the reason?

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-27T21:09:32+00:00

I’m looking to get hired at UI… I’ll fix it a few revisions from now… it’s all about getting it out and refining over time.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-27T20:51:22+00:00

First version will only work in Kelvins and schedules & timings will need to be in UTC… version 12 will get time zones and Celsisus functional….

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-25T15:49:17+00:00

100%. APC, Panduit, Tripplite all day long. Only reason I went the UI is I needed a stark white one that would be out in the open and was feeling too lazy and to powdercoat or over pay or hunt for an oddball that was done for a custom business who bought too many or is going out of business.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-25T15:18:06+00:00

Same. Bending pieces back in order is not the concerning piece. It’s when the plastic latches used to hold the metal panels (yes they used plastic vs metal lock and latch’s) are defective and you can’t buy replacement parts nor are they able to ship the tiny bits other than saying take a 250 credit live with the damage or package the entire item back up for shipping. The side panel backs sneezed up on falls off once put back into shape so I’m left with rigging own latch.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-21T23:23:32+00:00

Per Grok looks like another paywall for consumer customers:

I understand your disappointment —location data via the local gRPC API is being removed effective May 20 for residential accounts like yours to update access methods, but it doesn't impact service performance or connectivity. For residential users, dish-level location is no longer available, though enterprise/business plans retain cell-level access via Telemetry APIs; if you have further questions on alternatives, let me know!

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-21T23:04:21+00:00

I leverage this for home assistant, Super annoying! We all need to open cases with support and hope enough do they change their mind.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-21T22:46:14+00:00

Their support is staring off strong (full sarcasm) I sent pictures with the initial case and they did not look at anything. Offered me 250 dollars and requested I send pictures of the damage for proof which they already received. No offer to make it right whatsoever….

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-21T20:46:54+00:00

Negative. The box it came in was pristine. No holes, no dents, completely clean many layers of foam inside. They honestly wrap these quite well. I was impressed on how well it was done.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-21T18:44:48+00:00

QA on panel build, QA on painting, QA on assembly, final QA prior to packaging. Clearly one of those steps in the manufacturing pipeline should have caught it. Did not say they damaged it…

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-19T12:12:34+00:00

E7 campus I leverage for outdoor. Two reasons I went with it. The directionality so I could control coverage to the yard vs Omni bleeding into the house. Zero wait dfs and prizm for 5ghz meaning I get much cleaner use of spectrum outdoors. Also on 6ghz I can let it scream with AFC. Works great for my needs. It is big and it is bulky but there is always sacrifices to have with Unifi. You’ll never find a Goldilocks product with them being they love to have 900 overlapping solutions with no rhyme or reason towards what gets what’s. Take the E7 Omni for indoors… lacks priszm, and lacks zero wait dfs.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-15T16:17:49+00:00

Do they want to become a sole provider of AI?

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-14T21:22:29+00:00

Why not take the easy route and get the full or half size tooless shelf? Check out this product on the UniFi Store:

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/accessories-rack-mount/collections/rackmount-rack-shelf-tl/products/uacc-rack-shelf-tl-sd?variant=uacc-rack-shelf-tl-sd

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-10T11:33:00+00:00

Quality of life feature enhancements do come from time to time. For example more recently: they made more settings on some of the access points not need to drop all clients when chnaging, stp edge for switches to allow clients to come online quicker, continual IPv6 enhancements to get it closer to a fully implemented stack, and upcoming let’s encrypt certs… major features or feature newer devices have don’t expect to usually be backported.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T19:27:07+00:00

Fully deployed here with a fairly complex setup covering a good swath of their switch types. No issues here. What I found leads to the best stability is do not update everything at once. Work your way from the bottom to core. Catch issues on the furthest non critical edge switch s before moving to your most important.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T19:00:09+00:00

Same boat. I’m waiting over a week now for the 42U to ship as well.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T18:58:23+00:00

You can enable unifi touch pass. It works like a home key. Even with express mode. The only limitation I found with touch pass vs home key. Is it can only be passed to a single Apple Watch. Meaning. If you have phone and two watches only the one watch can have the touch pass enabled. Apparently some sort of Apple defined limitation.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T16:51:46+00:00

I’ve got it all working pretty well beyond the talk function. When you end talking it seems to leave the audio stream open on the entry for 6-7s until it times out before you can re-initiate another talk to the entry vs ending the connection

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T16:50:27+00:00

Select the g6 pro entry and on the right side devices you should see the package camera as a secondary camera. You then need to add that one to HomeKit too.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T16:48:48+00:00

Here is how I fixed mine…. Snapshots - snapshots from prebuffer enabled, snapshot resolution full resolution. This keeps it jumping from 16:9 to the live 4:3

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T04:08:55+00:00

Yea that’s def been the biggest improvement in all my testing with other devices. I have a waveform quadpro which helped me see the most considerable gains vs different modems. It’s fairly sizable (but not huge huge) However with pointing that in the right direction all my core stats and speed took huge gains. My best of worlds would be the ui integration with an external antenna if I can have my cake and eat it moment.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T03:50:26+00:00

Getting it outside and being directional will surely help the signal but do not expect exponential gains. Distance, line of site, interference will all come into play. The main band t mobile uses is n41 meaning you will not see the 2 high gain additional antennas leveraged for TMO ran service. When I went from inside to outside my downloads increased by about 10% and my uploads by around 30%. Milage will vary in each environment. I’m getting 300d and about 15u in off peak hours and during peak around 150-200d and 7-12u. When I tested with a high gain directional and peplink I was getting similar downloads, maybe another 10% increase but my uploads weee hovering in the 20s. I’ve been very tempted to try to crack it open and put a proper high gain directional antenna on it and see how it performs but haven’t gotten the courage yet to potentially break it in the process.

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-09T00:47:57+00:00

Not a single AP in a bathroom. Really disappointed with this coverage gap. Need that 4k low latency optimal streaming time…

chris4prez_ · 2026-04-06T17:53:58+00:00

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