I am late to the party here. Wifi coverage looks good. To me camera coverage is lacking but I went a bit overkill there as well. If you don't care about 360% coverage that is fine. I personally like to see a camera by all main entrance points. I understand for privacy reasons maybe not wanting them outside of sliding doors that are on bedrooms but what about the second person doo on the other side of the main entry front door? I like to be able to watch people as they walk up to doors for hopeful facial recoginition.
I wouldn't mount any cameras 30ft up. I did some 22ft up and highly regret it. They should have been mounted on the walls a max of like 12-13ft off the ground. They even say less than that for best facial rec.
PTZ are really great but I wouldn't leave them on motion tracking unless you also have another camera primarily covering the same area as you could end up with it seeing motion of something you don't care about and missing something you do. I plan to replace 2 of my stationary cameras with them but not for the AI motion tracking abilities but rather the zoom and ability to search for things manually.
POE wise, you could go 16 ProMax for buy once, cry once and be able to power regular and high-power POE devices, no problem.
On your alarm topic. I went with no motion sensors in my house and now the garage. Too many falses in the past at my previous house plus with our dogs at home the motion are terrible with that. I went with glass break sensors in every room and door sensors on every door.
Yeah so the drops were a tussle - "way more than we had discussed" via the builder. Plus cost wise for the cameras I get decent coverage and I can adjust angles to fine tune. Was not really a privacy issue just a what can I get away with without a lot of noise.
Agreed on the mount high - but some areas not much choice unless I want them hanging off a wall, which I think would look bad. I currently have 4 cameras mounted up about 40 feet at my townhouse - it's a set and forget type deal without a sectional.
So the electrician pulled Cat6 so that is good. I can deal with the switches later. I did not budget for $10k in LAN/Security gear and $10k for speaker/sound gear - so that may be a baby step thing. LAN first, obviously.
This Ring camera has been hanging tough - literally with a massive icicle on it. I need to find a away to defeat the icicle without it tearing down the camera. It is about 35 feet-ish up
And this one - massive. Hopefully the gutter hangs on.
PTZ camera power needs will depend on the camera and your poe switch. Check the camera specs for required watts and see how many watts your switch can provide. Willing to bet you will need additional power for the PTZs.
Right - my initial concern was the cable if CAT 5/6 is capable regardless of power demand.
Just to add some more detail here and maybe help guide you through the process...when you buy a PoE switch for a home, there are three major capacities to consider.
1) Throughput - for most of the ubiquiti switches I don't think this would be a concern
2) Ports - how many things do you need to plug in and at what speeds
3) Power - how much total power can the switch provide, and then how many PoE+, ++, or +++ ports you need for the specific devices you plan to run
For example, a G6 PTZ is PoE+ and uses 24.5 watts max whereas a G6 turret is PoE and uses 12.5W and a G6 Bullet is 9.9W. Identify you devices, their power consumption, add it all up, then you know how much power your switch needs.
A Pro Max 16 PoE switch has 180W total power supply with 12 PoE+ and 4 PoE++ ports. If you ran 4 U7 Pro XG access points, those would take up all your PoE++ ports since you want the 2.5 Gb backhaul and they would consume 22W each / 88W total of your 180W capacity - leaving 92W for cameras, etc. Since the PTZs tend to draw more power, you might want a switch with more capacity. Or you could provide power separately with PoE adapters/injectors for the locations the draw a lot. I went with a Pro Max 24 PoE - maybe a little overkill since I'm only drawing 126W from my switch. But in the end my limiting factor was ports. For network, camera, and other things that are up and running now before I've even moved in, I'm using 10 ports. That leaves 14 ports to run to various rooms around the house.
Another thing to note that I think we texted about - many TVs only have 10/100 ethernet ports on them but have 5 ghz wifi capabilities. I didn't know this before I started looking into it recently. So while I had planned to run my TV via wired ethernet because I thought that we be the most reliable and fastest connection, I will actually run it on 5 Ghz Wifi - which will be 5x faster.
I will have to calculate for the switch - again, was trying to carve out wiring for the electrician since they want inspections done, insulation, then drywall. I need to figure out fireplaces and cabinets next.
So good research on the TV - I still ran cable to them but will check the specs. Likely a 90" for the family room and slightly smaller for the bedroom. I need to figure out motion/refresh rates for TV's that size. The 75" Samsung I got last year is ok - not great for sports/racing etc. Movies are fine in 4k so might not be the TV's fault.
100% agree on the # of projects and do you need 1 more. You have a lot of projects on the go already so the question is - when will you get them off your plate and just enjoy driving them? Once the Volvo is done that should be pretty reliable - but will you ever actually call it done? And the 911 is super reliable and could be driven across the US and back with zero issues. But something tells me you won't ever call that done either. And the real question around project --- how many rovers are in the fleet? Then again this is all part of the fun. You have enough cars that you'll never be without something that runs. If the Highboy is in the middle of something and not usable, take the Defender. Or the Disco. Alternatively, there's also a lot of fun in a high hp manual trans turn key f150 that you can bomb around in with NFG.
I just need to get motivated to tidy these projects up before they head west. Dreaming about a heated/cooled garage with endless space/lifts for projects won't get things done now. Weather is **** here so moving stuff around is hard - and the garage is packed. I did set an internal rule for myself in terms of all vehicles need to be driven west vs. trailer even the FZ6
so that is motivating.
You make a very good point to consider total power consumption as well as leaving a little overhead for potential future devices. If going to run more cameras than he is currently looking at, or if he goes all G6 PTZ, then he will need more power. A good combo might be the Pro Max 16 and the UDM Pro SE as it would give an additional 180w POE and POE+ where he can run turrets or bullets. It would also give redundancy if the cameras are split between two devices in case of a chance the switch fails. It would actually also end up cheaper than a regular UDM Pro and a Pro Max 24 while having a total POE output that is higher. I think the only reason to go the Pro Max 24 route would be if more POE++ ports are needed.
Because I had a TV kill itself during a firmware update, I no longer put my TVs on the network to use the internal apps. I always suggest people use them as a screen and then use a streaming box, which, if you have it a lot of time have a hardwired connection. Steaming boxes are cheaper to replace than a TV. Many these days are 1000mb but 100mb isn't an issue, though, since 4k doesn't even exhaust that. The only thing that will eventually not be handled by 100mbs is 8k but we are so far away from that it doesn't matter. We can't even get quality 4k sports on a regular basis these days.
You can always add another switch right? Do they fail? Wonder if they will do the Superbowl in 4k, I think they did last year?
Roku devices are ridiculously cheap and work great, especially compared to the soon-obsolete software in TVs (that are probably spying on you as well).
Yes have 4 of them - using the memory cards also helps IMO. I do reboot them every once in a while since I don't feel they are good on that on their own without a power down or they pick inopportune times to reboot - when they start getting squirrely its time for a reboot.
I have issue with one of my Rokus but the rest are still problem free. The one that started to be an issue is fine if I reboot it once a month so haven't bothered to replace it yet. I actually went with GoogleTV devices in the garage. They seem to work better with a secondary device for audio. Some of the newer Rokus do from what I have been told but all of my Rokus are 7-8 years old now. I also like that the GoogleTV devices can run a VPN app which comes in handy for certain things.
I might look into the Google TV device.
In other news the battle of the "Snowcrete" continues almost two weeks later. I am on the HOA board and folks are getting heated.
In our neighborhood part of it is VDOT snow removal and part is private contractor. VDOT never showed up. People don't understand that in a once in a 10 year storm VDOT are trying to keep major arteries open. I drove from Leesburg VA to DC the other day and it is sketch, everywhere. 3 lanes at 70MPH suddenly reduce to 1 single file trail that looked like a 5 year shoveled - be patient. Conditions are still bad all over. You can't move this stuff with a plow you need heavy equipment, even Bobcats with treads are having a tough time.
Issue is/was it snowed about 8-10" in most areas, some got a foot or more but the tail end of the storm was ice - like 3 to 4 inches of ice which made it concrete to move, then temps never budged.
@cccoltsicehockey was looking at your plow pics and wondering how your setup would have worked here?
I was out shoveling (still) this past weekend and talked with this guy for a bit. Hard to tell in the picture but he had a wad of tissue stuffed up his nose and still bleeding. He said he had the cab window cracked for air and a piece of ice flew in and smacked him on the face. Whole cab was ****** but he soldiered on. He had been working double shifts for 10 days.
Poor guy was like "can you just tell your HOA we are doing the best we can - I know there are tons of complaints and it falls on us"
Yes! I can do that -
Anyway the Karen's are rampaging - temps here never got above freezing since the storm hit and lows in the single digits, schools closed for 8 days - even this week all/most schools on a two hour delay for the rest of the week.
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