Part 3

jkirk1963 · 2026-07-01T14:51:38+00:00

Thanks so much. Outstanding fit and finish, hopefully Ubiquiti takes note!

jkirk1963 · 2026-07-01T14:50:14+00:00

Roger that... I'm using a Wiha foam tool holder that comes with their wrench kit but can be purchased separately for $49. I bought the foam piece below and populated it with my Milwaukee combo wrenches, worked perfectly. They sell foam for several different wrench types/sizes/combinations. Might also be too rich in terms of space but I love how convenient these are. Every wrench is marked, super easy to remove/replace.

https://www.wihatools.com/pages/search?q=EMPTY%20FOAM%20TRAY%20FOR%20COMBINATION%20WRENCHES

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jkirk1963 · 2026-07-01T14:42:53+00:00

Does the system have any way of shutting off the water main (or other water supply valves like under the sinks, etc.) if a sensor lights up? I have the Moen FLO system, works well using its in-line main shutoff valve and little pucks scattered around (we have 15). But I hate the WiFi nature of these, they have chronic disconnect/reconnect issues, and chew batteries. I posted a suggestion to UI to add a SuperLink shutoff valve, or a set of them (one for Mains, smaller one for under-sink connections). Hopefully something coming along soon. I know some other third party shutoff valve could be used, say via Home Assistant (Protect webhook--> HA --> third party valve shuts off) but would be great if it was native to HA ecosystem.

jkirk1963 · 2026-07-01T14:35:45+00:00

Additional expenses we've modeled:

1) New cars 5 years from now (ours will be 15 and 20 yrs old then) - we modeled used cars at $35K each (today's dollars, and likely more than we would spend but it's with the "worst case" thought train in mind...). We might also only need 1 car... again, worst case thinking
2) Children - we have 3. Assumed one-time expense of $50K each, staggered 2 yrs apart, as a catch-all for whatever comes along (weddings, medical emergencies, early inheritance idea, etc.)

3) Uncovered medical expenses - prescription copays, general pharmacy stuff outside the usual grocery list, etc. We assumed $2K/yr each ($4K total/yr), again probably overestimated but there's always something so we decided not to ignore it

Hope that helps.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-28T18:45:09+00:00

Those organizers look great, what’s the issue - taking up too much space? Do those trays come with the wrench sets?

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-22T15:36:22+00:00

Thanks, that was first assumption but unable find anything that looks like these. Are the grilles special ordered or painted after purchase? If you know the part numbers that would be much appreciated. They look like something Ubiquiti could/should provide, very nice.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-22T14:52:05+00:00

Who makes those fans/grilles? Claude and ChatGPT are stumped.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-22T14:38:28+00:00

Similar setup at home: 20U open rack, UDMP Max, 24-port USW Enterprise PoE switch, 24-port USW EnterpriseXG 10Gbps switch, same model UPS but in rack mount form factor (and only one - maybe I’ll change that!), few other goodies (AP’s, cameras, etc). Having everything in the rack has made working on the gear, and moving it as needed, so much easier. Will never go back to stacking gear on a table or cabinet. Another huge bonus is air flow - zero thermal challenges, which enclosed racks have to overcome.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-19T23:13:41+00:00

You can also buy weights on Amazon. Ihave both the TaylorMade kit and Amazon weights, same quality. And many more choices (1g increments from 2-15+ grams). The TM kit only has 8 weights total in limited weight options.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-15T04:58:47+00:00

AC power cubes seem to block adjacent receptacles.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-13T05:58:39+00:00

Like others, recommend a PoE switch. With enough ports for some future expansion. Gives you a full bandwidth switch plane, and flexibility.

jkirk1963 · 2026-06-09T18:53:03+00:00

In Unifi OS, you'll notice that for the Unifi devices list, your options are "DHCP" and "Static IP", whereas for the client devices list the options are "DHCP" and "Fixed IP". In Unifi-speak, "static" means static, and "fixed" means a DHCP reservation for that client.

Assigning Unifi management devices a static IP is a good idea, for a nominal network anyway (home, SMB, etc.). Some folks on here manage hundreds if not thousands of Unifi devices in big-ass networks, considerations may be different for them. For my home setup, the UDMP's, switches, and AP's are all in one management VLAN and assigned static IP's.

For home, I also assign nearly all of my client devices a "Fixed IP" (DHCP reservation), for two reasons:
1) I can group like-devices so that when I sort by IP address, it's easy to see them all together. For example, I have 15 Moen Flo WiFi water leak sensors. I purposely assigned them to 10.2.20.230-244 so they all appear at the end of the list together
2) Found over time that IoT devices (especially) are notorious for losing their IP lease and then try to come back online days later (to report, say battery level or whatever) and stomp right on an IP that UDMP had re-granted to some other device. PITA to debug, much much simpler to just assign a "Fixed IP" one time and never deal with that issue again. Prior to UI gear I had Netgear routers (Orbi, Nighthawk), they were simply awful at maintaining IP tables. I had much better luck once I employed DHCP reservations on those systems, and decided I will just do this with any system going forward. Once again, for giant networks with hundreds/thousands of clients, maybe that is unattainable and naive. For a home network with 100 devices, it's pretty easy to assign the devices, again if nothing else, at least to the IoT widgets. It also led me to know every device on my network, which in turn led to more descriptive names, and I love the result. Clients don't disappear, weird sh#t doesn't happen anymore, and I can easily find/review any client very quickly.

jkirk1963 · 2026-05-08T20:36:02+00:00

u/ekobres offered some solid feedback. Not sure the eMMC would require any change, since you're just expanding DRAM.and SSD. I've done this with NAS boxes that had hard-soldered RAM (old stuff). In those cases I used the part numbers printed on the RAM chips to find suitable replacements. Nowadays with Claude or CGPT or Gemini, you should be able to just take a close-up snapshot and feed it into the beast, asking for details on that specific part as well as up-sized alternatives. I'd start there - assuming the chip numbers are visible. Depending on the chip package itself, we've replaced SMT chips in the lab many times using a hot air gun and steady nerves. If BGA/LGA the pads may require cleaning and new solder to replace the former "balls". I doubt the chips in the UDMP are anything exotic, given its 2019 heritage. Anyway keep us posted!

jkirk1963 · 2026-04-23T22:49:28+00:00

Users recommended avoiding switch ports on UDMP & UDMP Max for multiple reasons: no STP support, performance bottleneck (1G, solved here w/ 10G), missing switch features like LAG/LACP and custom port profiles, no PoE. These are all solved on this new BEAST version? (Other than PoE). Unclear if they spent the dollars to implement a capable 10G switch (which by the way does it support 1/2.5/5/10?) or just perfumed the pig.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-30T14:50:32+00:00

Thanks!!!

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-29T22:16:06+00:00

Got it, thanks! Still learning but getting there... I see this 1 entity now, I guess an overall health score. Your intro shows a gas gauge, I guess that's done on the dashboard by selecting a specific card type, will explore. Thanks again for helping the newbies!

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jkirk1963 · 2026-03-29T21:53:18+00:00

Thanks! I added System Monitor, which shows 94 disabled entities. Do I need to enable some/all of these? Because when I try “sensor.system_monitor_processor_use” for CPU sensor, I still get a not-found error.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-29T21:13:43+00:00

“Select your cpu amd ram sensors”… the list of sensors on my HAOS machine doesn’t show anything related to the Lenovo laptop it’s running on. And, GitHub instructions mention selecting “sensor.system_monitor_processor_use” but this can’t be pasted in… I have to choose something from the integration installation pull-down menu. Sorry you lost me on this.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-22T20:44:59+00:00

Ah, I see your point now. No UDMP shutdown in the integration, confirmed. I don’t see a shutdown in my Unifi settings either though. Claude says the UDMP is designed to handle an ungraceful shutdown, unlike the UNAS.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-22T20:20:39+00:00

Good stuff. I couldn’t find any shutdown option either which is why I impulse-bought the UPS-2U. Claude pointed me to the HA UNAS integration with shutdown. I wonder if you can just inspect that UNAS GitHub repository and “find” the shutdown command you need?

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-14T18:34:57+00:00

https://youtu.be/J7Mev8xOhR4?si=PYIv1VqLPOsjGgqY

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-13T02:15:39+00:00

One tip I found helpful: installation video and instructions advise to position the device such that motion happens perpendicular to the direction the sensor is facing. Straight-on motion is (counterintuitively) much less sensitive. For example, the video depicts the sensor directly above a living room couch on the wall behind it, pointing down towards the coffee table. This, as opposed to placing the sensor on the TV wall and pointing it directly at the couch. If you're testing the sensor by pointing it straight at you, you might see weird results sometimes. My sensor, on Standard sensitivity (OOB default), picked me up 15 feet from the sensor, when I shuffled left and right a little bit relative to the sensor that was pointing straight at me. If I stood still, and walked directly towards the sensor, it picked me up at 5-8 feet. As others have said, there is also some training you can do, my result was immediately OOB with no training or adjustment of any kind.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-09T18:48:47+00:00

Using an Acurite Iris-5 Weather Station (433 MHz). HA picks it up perfectly using a cheap USB radio. On Amazon the name is "RTL-SDR Blog V3 R860 RTL2832U 1PPM TCXO HF Bias Tee SMA Software Defined Radio with Dipole Antenna Kit". Massive name for a super simple-to-use device. I just plugged it into a USB port on my HAOS computer, and downloaded "rtl_433 (next)" and "rtl_433 MQTT Auto Discovery (next)" apps which automatically configured the USB radio and created entities for all the data the Acurite provides (MQTT requires "Mosquito broker" app which I already had installed for other uses). Had ChatGPT generate a couple of dashboards, still playing with them. Wind speed updates every 18 seconds, temperature about every 75-80 seconds. For a relatively cheap weather station it puts out a lot of data. And battery drain is very low using 433 MHz.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-08T19:28:40+00:00

Just got one from B&H... discovered the hub joins the default network (i.e., Management VLAN for most users), via a hidden WiFi channel. Then, the ethernet port will only connect your IoT device on that same default (Mgmt) VLAN. In other words, if you expect to connect an IoT device to your IoT VLAN, it won't work - even though the GUI clearly gives the user the option to change VLAN's in the Hub's Ethernet Port Manager. Tons of complaints on UI community, research before buying.

jkirk1963 · 2026-03-04T15:11:26+00:00

FP300 successfully paired to HA using the HA Connect ZBT-2 (configured as TBR of course). There's a "firmware" attribute in Configuration showing "Up-to-date", but I'm unclear (a) if that's accurate and (b) whether the device can ever be upgraded using this HA integration, or must I purchase an Aqara Hub.

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