Dual Monitor UniFi Protect Viewport Setup | Dream Machine Pro Max

[@MinecraftManAndFrien]

Get video, but here's a couple things I would have done differently. UDM pro max is bit over kill for a home system. You could've saved a lot but getting a basic UDM or UDM SE. Second thing I would've done is used a 10GB DAC cable on the SFP ports to link the UDM and switch. That would give you much more bandwidth.

[@ManShed]

Thanks for the input, I'll consider it for future projects.

[@hewhorocketh]

You can view 16 cameras on a viewport.

[@SLADE_xL]

But i would assume a single viewport would not fill this unconventional screen ratio. This looks clean and theoretically could show 32 cameras if he ever wanted to

[@hewhorocketh]

@ I figured the screen ratio was to have a dual input PnP monitor. A standard 16:9 will show 8x or 16x 16:9 cameras fine

[@ManShed]

@@SLADE_xLyes exactly and I didn’t want each camera view to be microscopic.

[@ManShed]

@@hewhorockethyes but the camera views would be so small on the screen that it would be worthless. This is very easy to see what’s happening in each camera from a distance.

[@hewhorocketh]

@ fair enough. If it works for what you want it to do.

[@AndrewHarris83]

Great job, clean install. I would recommend a rack mountable battery backup for power redundancy. Also the blank keystone inserts would be a good touch. I would love to see the completed rack.

[@ManShed]

I agree. I’m working on the power backup and I’ll post a picture of the completed rack. I did use blank keystone inserts.

[@weslogan1572]

Noting when you installed the rack in the garage, you connected the UDMP-Max and the Pro-Max switch together using RJ45 connections, limiting the uplink to 2.5Gb. Just wondering if there was any specific reason why you did it that way instead of using the SFP+ ports to do a 10Gb uplink using DAC, fiber or Cat6 (listed in preference order of what to use). Understandably the Cable modem is only 2.5Gb max connection, but you could have gone with a 10Gb uplink on your LAN

[@ManShed]

I have since changed it to SFP+

[@BlakesBench]

Weird at my grandparents funeral chapels that opened in 2023 we added a shit ton of cameras and added a unifi view thing to the tv and it showed all 10 cameras using 1 thing

[@razvanilea]

A little bit of advice, check the temps, I would recommend to have a bit of space between due to the temps. I found out the case of all tend to get pretty hot.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

That nas cooks

[@ManShed]

Yea, I’ve added more space and fans to keep everything around 89° tops.

[@haonnoah]

Now set up home assistant to turn the monitor on triggered by Unifi Protect motion events, and turn it back off after set duration

[@ManShed]

I like that!

[@TelcoGeek]

Why not just pull two cables to the monitor location instead of having to mount a switch?

[@ManShed]

Because I didn’t want to limit myself in the future incase I want to add something else wired in our bedroom.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Tube not fire rated?

[@ManShed]

Hmmm…didn’t think of that.

[@PapasParentalToolBox]

Why where do you live, Baghdad?

[@ManShed]

? I’m thinking that you didn’t listen to the part that we have a large property not easy street.