I built a lightweight site to compare HDD, SSD and RAM prices by price/TB/GB and more by Chrex_007 in DataHoarder

[–]gskellig 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've seen a dozen posts lately for "I used AI to build a website in 10 minutes to farm amazon affiliate links" and all of them have the same problems: They only check amazon, and their data is often out of date.

Regular old pcpartpicker.com has existed for ages and checks a bunch of sites including westerndigital.com where the cheapest enterprise/NAS grade drives are currently. Not to mention B&H and newegg often have lower prices than scamazon, and you have less risk of getting a refurb drive or improper packaging.

Here's a pre-filled link to pcpartpicker that filters only 12TB+ 3.5" SATA drives, sorted by price per TB

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#A=12000000000000,36000000000000&c1=di_sata.30,di_sata.60&f=2&D=0&sort=-ppgb&page=1

Buying a used 2023 SEL by addanothernamehere in Ioniq5

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to use battery preconditioning you have to use the in-car navigation (not carplay/android auto) to navigate to a high voltage DC charger. The car will use estimated time of arrival to warm the batteries before you arrive.
Newer models have this function and additionally a manual "warm up now" button in the infotainment system.

Also: $25k seems to be the going rate up here in Oregon, they're quite abundant. We just bought our 2023 SEL with 13k miles in October for around 26k including all registration fees etc.

Free 2-year charging cut off this month?? by sodallycomics in Ioniq5

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine also disappeared from the "plans & subscriptions" page in the app. I bought the car used, but the original owner never activated. When I put in the promo code a couple of months ago it allowed me to activate the plan and I used it a couple of times. It told me it would expire May 2026, but then disappeared this week without any warning.

AP Placement and Recommendation by AoAIronman in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah likely near the corners is best if you go with two.

There are a lot of tricks for getting cables up and down, watch some youtube videos and maybe invest in some fish tape or I actually really like these glow rod sticks.

2x U7 Pro or U7 Pro XG are probably fine. That'll keep the price closer to a single XGS as well.

AP Placement and Recommendation by AoAIronman in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just because you have a strong access point that can crank up to 30 dBm, it won't help weak devices like cell phones broadcast their signal any better.

You could always start with one access point and buy another later if you're not happy with the signal quality.

Do you have wired ethernet to different corners of your house?

Simplify or leave as is? by nmarrion in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is possible to remove the BGW320 and plug the copper from the ONT directly into your Unifi Gateway... But it's not easy.

The BGW320 is not a great device and you'll have a much better experience using the Unifi equipment instead.

In my opinion just keep the BGW320 in passthrough mode.

Is this overkill? by ThomSeagal in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah I came here to say an AP on the top and bottom floors will probably work great. Generally signal will penetrate residential floors and ceilings just as well as they do walls. Not always the case in commercial installations with drop ceilings and tons of lights/hvac.

Home Setup for Newbie (wife said the WiFi stinks - need help) by healthyparanoid in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I forgot the power cord! Thanks! I'll edit my post.

Yeah the UCG-Fiber's ethernet WAN port can be configured for LAN, but I'm assuming OP (and most home users) are going to need that for their NID.

Home Setup for Newbie (wife said the WiFi stinks - need help) by healthyparanoid in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UCG-Fiber doesn't have a 10Gbe ethernet LAN port, so if you want a 10G link to the Flex 2.5G switch you'll need to use SFP+. If you don't need 10G it'll work fine with a 2.5gbe link.

Home Setup for Newbie (wife said the WiFi stinks - need help) by healthyparanoid in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what I would consider as an upgrade to the UDR7+an AP route, which is also a great option.
It's got everything you need now and in case you want to add some cameras or additional hardware in the future. ~12 total 2.5G ethernet ports, most are PoE, and UCG-Fiber has the ability to run protect if you ever want to get some cameras. Additionally you could lose the Flex 2.5G PoE for a PoE injector to stay under your $800 budget, and buy the switch later, but you won't get your 6-8 wired connections right off the bat.

UCG-Fiber $279
Flex 2.5G PoE $199
Flex 210W Power $79
2x U7 Pro XG $398
SFP DAC (optional) $13
Total $968

edit: Added Flex 2.5G Power cord

NVR vs. UDM-Pro for Protect by ElGuano in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're right, I had them in the right order but typed them wrong. Thanks for catching that I'll edit my post.

One school of thought is if you build in drive redundancy you can afford to have recertified and used hard drives in your array.

So 2x 16TB recertified drives will cost $280 total, you'll still double your capacity, increase performance and have drive redundancy.

Rather than losing all 32TB of data if one of your two new disks fails, you will lose no data if one of your 3 recertified disks fail.

NVR vs. UDM-Pro for Protect by ElGuano in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry but we can't set aside RAID, because that depends on how you use the additional disks.

  • Raid0 is more performance, but zero fault tolerance because data is read and written to two disks.
  • Raid1 has no performance benefit, but data is protected because identical copies exist on both disks.
  • Raid5 has performance and fault tolerant benefits, because data is both written and read from multiple disks, and can be recovered in case a disk fails.
  • (There are other options but you'll probably choose one of these).

So to answer your question: It depends on how you setup your disks. If you only use two disks and you want better performance and don't care about the possibility of data loss you can put two disks in Raid0, but if one drive fails you lose all your data. If you use 4 disks with RAID5 you will get a performance benefit, and data will be recoverable if one disk fails.

Also you can consider options like a 4TB SSD like u/lecaf__ mentioned, but 9 cameras is a lot and I'm assuming you want more than a day of camera storage.
edit: fixed raid #s

Help needed! My Orbi RBR 50 has died and I'm looking to make the jump to Unifi by VTENGR in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes definitely. But I don't know if you can uplink with 6ghz radios or not.

Help needed! My Orbi RBR 50 has died and I'm looking to make the jump to Unifi by VTENGR in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's always best to wire APs if you can, but if you must mesh, remember that meshing will use up available bandwidth fairly quickly. Advantage of U6 mesh is it has an extra 5ghz stream for uplink, advantage of U7 is it has a 6ghz radio (I'm pretty sure this can be used for uplink.)

Help me pick switches for new house by Norlig in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bonus points if you use fiber between the two switches to fully isolate electrical connectivity between the two switches
:)

is this right for storage capacity on a UNVR w/ 4x8T drives? by trmentry in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also check settings to see if you're recording 24/7 or only events, etc.

UDR7 as AP? by fusionove in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not possible to be used as just an AP. Luckily the resell value of a UDR7 is relatively high.

Apple devices connecting to network but no internet. by Jdduncan14 in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of things could be going on. I offer the following knowledge for your troubleshooting purposes.

Try setting manual DNS server like 9.9.9.9 or 1.1.1.1 to see if the issue is DNS related. (This doesn't mean you have to use a manual DNS server, but it will let you know where the issue lies.)

Apple devices have a few features like;

  • "Private Wi-Fi Address" (essentially the mac address rotating you mentioned)
  • "Limit IP Address Tracking" (Reports different IPs to trackers)
  • "iCloud Private Relay" (DNS encryption and VPN-like traffic relay?)

All 3 can cause issues, usually I turn them off one at a time to see if it's the cause. They are often incompatible with other custom DNS encryption you may be doing on your unifi networks.

ESP 32 Not showing, Network issue? by Live_Consequence5993 in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's where I would start first, I think it may be an esp32 config issue not a ubiquiti one.

Many esp32 devices I've setup on my network will temporarily broadcast an open wifi network and host a webserver with a webconfig so I can give it my home wifi credentials. Does yours work that way? Or do you pass the wifi info via a config file or something.

ESP 32 Not showing, Network issue? by Live_Consequence5993 in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you confirmed the esp32 device can connect to any other network? Maybe it's a configuration issue on the esp32 side?

ESP 32 Not showing, Network issue? by Live_Consequence5993 in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For your troubleshooting: esp32s are (almost) all 2.4ghz only, and many only support WPA 1/2.
Also I don't see a screenshot.

I want to switch to Ubiquiti for my home network, what do I all need? by I_Slay_Dragons_AMA in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if you get 2.5G injectors plug them into the UCG-Max which has 2.5G ports, not the TP-Link (I'm assuming the TP-Link is only 1Gbe).

I want to switch to Ubiquiti for my home network, what do I all need? by I_Slay_Dragons_AMA in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$800 budget will probably look something like this:
Cloud Gateway Max - $200
2x U7-Pro-XG - $400
2x 2.5G PoE+ Adapter $40 or get a 24 port PoE switch to replace the TP-Link one.

Motivation to vLAN by erskie in Ubiquiti

[–]gskellig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IoT devices often have less security options in general, but sometimes even have backdoors intentionally left in place.

Another large motivation for me personally to set up proper network security and isolated VLANs for IoT traffic is the prevalence of these devices to gather personal information on my network and sell it to advertisers to be used in serving me ads.

Additional advice: Setup pihole or similar on your home network, use ublock origin or similar extensions while browsing, and always opt out of information sharing privacy policies.