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Sam Rose
@samwho.dev

Recently installed a 4G backup SIM on my home network for when the actual broadband line is down and I can’t believe I didn’t do this years ago.

CJ Shearwood
@cj.shearwood.games

What are you using to do it? Last time I looked most of the solutions I could find had take up times so long that normally city fibre has gotten their shit together by then.

nickrw
@big.nick.energy

Also using one of these, and built some hooks into the current WAN state to shut down anything data hungry when failover happens 🤓

CJ Shearwood
@cj.shearwood.games

I was afraid you were going to say that. I have been thinking about upgrading my core router, the express 7 has served me well, but I don’t have the ports to support this (I think?)

Sam Rose
@samwho.dev

I made the plunge a while ago and have been quite happy. It’s an expensive ecosystem to be in but it does work well. It’s not great if you care deeply about privacy, they do seem to require you have a UniFi account and log in to your local router with it. I’m too old and tired to care.

CJ Shearwood
@cj.shearwood.games

Yeah, I now have the express 7 and two mesh nodes, and probably next year I’m going to upgrade and start using their cameras and if I can convince myself, I might go for their door access system on my front door.

Sam Rose
@samwho.dev

Ohhh you’re already in, sorry, misunderstood you. I have a few cameras and one of their doorbells and they work great. I like that it’s all PoE and the recordings stay local. The Protect app is very good too.

CJ Shearwood
@cj.shearwood.games

Honestly, I think my bigger problem is that when it applies updates, it reboots itself and kicks everything off the network. And whilst this is probably a user error, I can’t see a way of telling it to do it at 3 am. I can tell it when to check for updates.