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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    I can’t really find anything on that specific unit other than this: GENERATOR • Marathon Electric® Brushless • 6 kW standby output • 120/240 VAC – 50/25A • +/-6% capacitor voltage regulation Too bad you’re not closer or I’d let you borrow my power meter to check it out. That’s the only real...
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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    The problem isn’t so much voltage regulation (higher voltage is always better than too low for circuit boards) as it is THD (how close the AC generated power sine wave is to being a perfect sine wave). Now smaller portable generators usually vary wildly on THD but these larger units are usually...
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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    That’s exactly what I was going to use if I switched over to diesel, those things run forever on fumes so as long as you can get by with 6kw then you’re golden. For $1200 that was a steal.
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    My hats off to you, sounds like you really went above and beyond for her. Funny how it’s often the rich folks that cheap out and sometimes end up spending much more than if they had just done it right from the start.
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    I have no time for that stuff, that would have received a huge PITA charge for sure. Folks like that are never happy no matter how good your install was.
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    Yeah it’s expensive to go all in on the Ubiquiti ecosystem, especially for a homeowner. The Cloud Keys are just a fancy term for Ubiquiti’s controller. That Dream Machine she had should also have a controller too. Sounds like she had several generations of equipment in there.
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    I’ve been using their networking equipment for a long time (mainly switches, APs) because you’re right, the stuff just works and you don’t need any crazy licensing like Meraki. I prefer using PFsense or OPNsense on the front end unless it’s a very small install or it’s for someone that just...
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    Can’t disagree with any of that, I’ll just have to see how it actually does under normal operating conditions. I suspect that improvements to AI and integration with 3rd party ONVIF cameras will bridge much of this in the not too distant future.
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    Yeah 3x isn’t great for an LPR but the AI DSLR has a 45mm fixed focal length so I’ll be curious to see what that looks like at distance. I know it doesn’t have true IR night vision but it’s supposed to have exceptional low light performance so a well lit parking lot should be a good test for it.
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    I have a bar owner I’m helping to set up a full Protect system (full rack Enterprise NVR) and I haven’t really played much with their higher end AI Pro cameras. He wants all the facial recognition stuff as well as the ability for nighttime LPR so we may try the AI Pro, AI LPR and the DSLR Pro to...
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    I totally agree their AI stuff needs work but honestly the way it integrates with 3rd party stuff already is just fantastic, absolutely blew me away how well it performed especially mobile access. You can’t get sound or motion/AI events (incl night LPR) yet but that is definitely coming. Yes...
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    Yes it definitely wasn’t cheap to do it all at once but you can start piecing together a system over time and buying used stuff off eBay, FB marketplace, etc. If you want to start playing around with Protect then just get yourself a Cloudkey Gen 2 plus first (you can run 2-3 cameras on that) and...
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    I got almost everything straight from Ubiquiti in Canada (their canadian website ca.store.ui.com ). The hard drives came from B&H photo in the US (cheapest price I could find on them). The 3rd party cameras were from Empiretech on Amazon.com and got the doorbells there too.
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    Adoption issue with NVR pro Ubiquiti

    Can you see all the cameras on the switch and do they all have their assigned static IPs or is there an issue with one of them (ex a 169.x.x.x address)?
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    Adoption issue with NVR pro Ubiquiti

    Depends on the type of cameras, I believe the Pro can handle up to (35) 2K or (24) 4K cameras.
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