Recent content by Alan commike

@AlphaCentauri, what @redfive says. You'll need to find someone (Unifi support?) that will help you understand how to view logs in the USG Pro. It should have a mechanism to show the rules that trigger a block action.

I have a commercial hardware firewall on my network. My home environment is atypical. Most people don't have a full height 19" rack in their basement. :) Another low-cost option that will give you plenty of feedback is something like pihole. It's not as safe as VLANs and firewalls, in exchange...

Yes, a VLAN with firewall rule is sufficient. Create a VLAN that doesn't have outbound WAN access. Depending on which VLAN your BI server sits, you'll need rules for it to reach the camera ports and the cameras to reach it, or for you to reach BI if it's on the same VLAN as the cameras. It may...

I have a Supermicro server that runs all my KVM VMs including FreeNAS, BI, and a bunch of others. I gave my win10 VM running BI 4 cores with a 1T iscsi volume to the FreeNAS VM and it's running well. I'm still setting things up with multiple cameras, so I'm not in steady state yet and can't...

Edited the original post with an a google maps satellite view image (which I thought the site would automatically scale, it's a bit larger than I expected). Yes, pwr/ethernet is not an issue.

Hi Folks - I'm planning a system for my house. The one problem area I'm not sure how to handle is the driveway. I have a detached garage in the back yard with a 160' long driveway that sits between our house and neighbor. - I'd like to see people walking up the drive, but obviously there's...