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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.

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).

+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.

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.

#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. 😔