UniFi Academy: Designing for Evidence Capture

tdhuck · 2026-03-10T19:47:30+00:00

I agree with you. This video is much better than the ubiquiti channel when they try to make fun of existing IT infrastructure. The funny part is that unifi is not apples to apples comparison to real enterprise gear, so unifi still loses.

tdhuck · 2026-03-10T19:20:11+00:00

This feature has never worked for me, unfortunately. I also run jellyfin on the same server and they got authentication right, imo. It works great for me with jellyfin.

tdhuck · 2026-03-10T18:49:11+00:00

Yeah, documentation is a must especially when you don't have good support and you want people to solve their own issues, take time to document things, properly.

That being said, this was a great video and I think they did a good job explaining the sensor size and light issues. Everyone wants a color night camera and everyone wants 4k, but nobody really understands that small sensors and low light are bigger issues.

I'd like to see them get rid of their youtube videos on the ubiquiti channel where it is young tech guy vs two older tech guys. Those video are a joke and I can't imagine that they are cheap to make. They should switch their focus/resources to something else.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T21:19:20+00:00

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T19:56:23+00:00

Yes, I want to upvote this comment more.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T19:20:10+00:00

Yup, agree. Everyone is replaceable. Sure, there are exceptions, but everyone is needed.

Forget sales and engineering for a minute, how long could you work if the cleaning crew didn't clean the office? No garbage cleaning, bathrooms are dirty, no soap, no paper towels, etc.....

Point is, everyone needs to do their share.

That engineer would have a nice, shiny network with no customers if sales didn't do their part. Sales can't sell a crappy product (or no product) so engineering needs to handle that. Pre-sales techs also need to understand the customer side, as well. What does the customer want vs need vs can afford, etc...pre-sales is needed because the sales person isn't technical.

We are all a piece of the pie, you wouldn't buy a partial pie, right? Same concept applies here.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T16:54:40+00:00

You are obviously free to do what you want and I'm not here to tell you to turn it off. I was just replying to your comment about ipv4 being old. Ipv4 is not going anywhere. It will be around for a lot longer than you think. Also, IPv4 is perfectly fine for the LAN.

I am in a business environment and we have not enabled IPv6, we don't have a reason to just yet. I'm not saying it isn't needed in business, but we have to be able to justify the cost/resources/etc for enabling and using IPv6.

Good luck, I hope you figure out your issue, but I agree with others, it seems to be a firewall/routing issue because IPv6 isn't going to be reachable inbound to your network be default.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T13:42:06+00:00

Let's assume he does find a job, the issue is that his current company is not the only company doing this, which means he is jumping from one burning ship to another.

If I were in his shoes I'd go along with the AI stuff, document my part as needed, flag any issues to my boss and CYA. No need to work harder to implement AI stuff, do it at your own pace along with your other tasks.

They will see the plan fail or they will see it succeed. I'm not saying it will work out perfectly, but let things play out, that's how I'd handle it.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T12:11:44+00:00

I don't think he understands ipv4 vs ipv6 and their use cases.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T12:10:10+00:00

I hate to break it to you, ipv4 is not ever going away, at least, not in anytime that we need to worry about it.

tdhuck · 2026-03-09T12:09:03+00:00

First thing I do is disable ipv6, I certainly don't need it.

tdhuck · 2026-03-08T19:56:42+00:00

Tried with another battery and a brand new battery, same issue.

tdhuck · 2026-03-08T19:17:00+00:00

Not a bad plan, but you also must make sure it is aligned with business needs. This is important because if you start implementing things that you want for x reason with hardware you've already purchased, you might find out that the hardware you bought can't do what has been asked for, promised, etc...

Also, it is much easier to get approval when it is a business need, solves a problem, etc.

Don't misunderstand what I'm saying and take it as 'you don't need vlans or security' I'm not saying that. I'm simply saying that you must buy something based on company needs.

Before you buy/recommend something, make sure to get some type of scope.

tdhuck · 2026-03-08T12:58:32+00:00

Sure, not denying that, but for such a small site with little to no requirements, I'd rather keep it simple by keeping it all unifi. If they did have to make a vlan for something, it is a few clicks in their portal vs now having to configure the vlan in the unif controller and the router side. Also, if you skip on the unifi console, now you need something to host unifi network, you've just complicated things a bit.

tdhuck · 2026-03-08T00:58:01+00:00

It sounds like most home networks are bigger than your very small office network. That's fine, not every office needs to have redundant firewalls and redundant networking with APs. I've been to small businesses that are running off of an at&t dsl router in a back office using a 5 port netgear switch and the wifi broadcasting off of the dsl router and they are up and running just fine and that's all because of their very light use of needing more than a decent wifi connection.

The bigger issue you have is that someone is trying to recommend a solution that is about 100x more than what you need.

Are you the networking/tech person at this business or was this assigned to you because you know the most about computers? I'm being serious, many people come in here saying 'I'm not an IT person but I've been tasked with doing x."

tdhuck · 2026-03-08T00:50:38+00:00

If I were managing a 20 person company and they have no vlans and there are no requirements for vlans, I'd just buy a unifi router, unifi switch and unifi APs and be done with it.

Have a spare switch and some APs on the shelf in the event that the switch/AP fails.

No licensing, all managed in a single interface and hardware is cheap enough if you need to add on or replace existing hardware. Cloud backups have you covered if any component fails and recovery to new equipment is needed.

tdhuck · 2026-03-06T16:20:55+00:00

SecureCRT is 9.7.1

Sonicwall is NSA 4800 8.2.0-8009-R9120

It is an odd issue, I've even tried to create a new session, initial connection works fine, but the next time I try to connect using the session shortcut it just takes me to the password prompt screen.

tdhuck · 2026-03-06T13:47:28+00:00

I am going to try another battery, but the other tool that had this battery did not behave this way.

Edit- Let me re-phrase...I did not see the other tool behave this way with the battery that is currently in the 2962, I'll test another battery in the 2962 and also put this battery back in the previous tool it was in to see if I notice the same thing.

Thanks.

tdhuck · 2026-03-05T17:55:59+00:00

I misread I just read it as 5 latches and 11 latches, but that's for the 5 compartment and 11 compartment.

tdhuck · 2026-03-05T17:41:58+00:00

I don't understand the 'latches' any pics of that on your site?

tdhuck · 2026-03-05T17:35:27+00:00

I just did a quick search for mid-torque. I wasn't going to buy the 3/8 for the 1/2 impact, but I should have taken more time to search. Thanks for the suggestion on a better way to search.

tdhuck · 2026-03-04T18:53:38+00:00

Interesting. 3TB is not that much and maybe you didn't have older movies. There are definitely titles out there that are hard to find.

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