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Finally upgraded to #UniFi zones and migrated—mostly deleting rules that are now built-in—my firewall rules. Pretty slick. Then finally moved the rest of my IoT devices to the IoT VLAN & zone. I’d been it putting off because SmartThings/Z-wave made it such a pain.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

14 Sept

Matter with a HomePod is much simpler. After moving to the IoT network it just took about 30s for the hub to update devices info. Didn’t have to remove and re-add devices like I had to for SmartThings (pre-Matter, TBF).

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

14 Sept

+1 again for Matter. When I had to add more devices I decided to upgrade the others to a standard (yes, I know xkcd 927) and not get locked in. In fact, the ST Hub by that time supported Matter too but HomeKit provides a better experience. ST always felt clunky.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

But now I’m starting to think about NVR. Not only is my wife not impressed with the new, clean network topo, but rolls her eyes at the mention of buying cameras including a G6 that records over Teleport to home storage when we travel.

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Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

19 Sept

#UniFi travel router arrived! 😍 Also ordered another puck. Living room/kitchen doesn’t have great coverage. Too much solid interference from the puck down the hallway that provides coverage for the bedrooms. Should’ve installed it when that ceiling was open for the remodel. Harder install now. 😔

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

20 Sept

Replaced my older #UniFi nanoHD (WiFi 5) with the U6+ (WiFi 6). The mounting plate was the same so it was a quick swap and adoption. New scan of the upstairs has me thinking I may not need to install the nanoHD in the living room. Might try out the AP upgrade by itself for a while.