You always impress me with your attention to detail and the neatness if your work. Many people don’t recognize the importance of neat work until it cones time to troubleshoot. My old trade school instructor would be pleased. He always emphasized to us apprentices to do our work in a neat and workmanlike manner. Hope we get to see more on site videos.
Beautiful install! You are a true professional Cody. Thanks for all the great content you’ve shared over the years, I really appreciate you sharing your expertise.
Sweet install, very clean indeed. Must admit that AI theta is looking interesting. It is much more discrete but with that dewarping mode, impressive video output.
3:47 I really can‘t understand why everyone in the US is installing these cheapass open racks… haven‘t you got money or do you just give a sh** … Why on earth don‘t you install some proper Panduit, Rittal or Eaton 19‘ Wallmounted closed rack!?
How do you have an AI Theta camera behind the desk? HIPPA regulations prohibit that as it can pick up personal and private data on computer monitors. for the door access, is that a back door to the office, or the network room? Did you install the emegency push to exit system too for fire code? Also for fire code in your area, are you allowed to power fail CLOSED for the lock, or do you have to power fail to OPEN?...actually, nevermind on thqat, lol, the push bar meets that requirement where in an emergency users can push bar to open door leaving the mag lock fail CLOSED for security.
With any Unifi camera you can have privacy zones so it totally blocks out certain areas ( like computer screens). For Unifi access there is a push paddle on the door so you can always exit no matter what. We never install maglocks but if you do you most definitely need to have some fail safe set
If I had that job, I think I would have convinced the Project Manager (probably just one of the Doctor's) to buy and have installed (using different cabling paths) backup CAT-6 cables to each outlet in all critical ares. I managed the Network install of my Brother-In-Laws medical office (as a favor with no Pay). About 6-months later, a fan in one of the Air Conditioner vents was replaced, and they accidentally cut (and pulled-out for some reason) four of the CAT-6 cables, resulting in the loss of network for two Doctors on their Office Desktops (fortunately redundant using WiFi), and connectivity to their CT Scan and one X-Ray room. It took almost a week to get everything back up by running/replacing the runs (once again gratis on my part and also leading to injury on one of my knees - however there were many doctors and 'easy to look at' Nurses around to help). Lesson Learned, unless the 'easy to look at' is considered a bonus.
Great video. I'd love to hear about how you go about customer acquisition to get and then any CRM you use to retain customers, as well as any pricing. Would especially love to hear about getting in on new installs.
If I have 6 POE devices (cameras and intercom) over 80m away from the main switch should I run 6 long cables or use small switches at some point in the middle to reduce the cables heading to the main switch?
At my workplace we often do similar job sites with Unifi Network and cameras - do you know if there is any marketing material (like videos or pictures) we can use on our Website or instagram to promote the products?
Hi Kodi, I really love your unifi videos, I was wondering if you could make a video on unifi protect, access and talk multi site management (having same credentials and permissions that work between different sites with different dream machines or UNVR or cloud keys). Basically the setup is going to be to have a user be able to use their door access credentials in different offices and can call a different site/office with and internal extension through talk.
Why did you put on the strain relief with the cable ties that early, even before you installed the keystone modules? What do you do, of the keystone Module took too much or too less cable? The keystone would not fit anymore into the patch panel
I have seen that you have used other brand cameras. How do you know when to user Ubiquiti and when to use other brand cameras? It is because the user asked you for it or did you recommend it to him?
Yep especially after seeing the mess of wires in our network cabinets at the schools I work at. I'm an IT tech for a school district. I spent many hours about 3 years ago cleaning up the cabinets at 2 sites. They're not pretty, but they look much better than when I started. Its one of my summer projects, but we have too many other projects going on and I feel we're very understaffed relative to the amount of projects we have.
I sure hope Ubiquiti gives you more attention than most when something goes wrong... or you are able to have replacement items in stock so your customers aren't the ones waiting around for them to bother paying attention to your RMA. I cannot use their products anymore. I, like many others, have been burned too many times by their abandonment and lack of real tech support. Yes, you get what you pay for... but are you REALLY getting what you pay for with them still?
4:40 the access points are pretty close, do you enable fast roaming? Bevore i had it not enabled and my wlan call dropped and switched to normal phone mode when it switched from one ap to another, but since i enabled fast roaming, no drops or switching to normal phone mode during talking.
No fast roaming but it will be on low power. I’ll end up doing a wireless survey and if we need to move it we will. This was the pre design now we validate
HDMI over Cat 6 is so much more reliable than HDMI extenders, once you break 50ft you either need HDMI over fiber or CAT6, you can alternatively inject 5v into HDMI over 50ft for the signal to reach, but not really an ideal solution.
Yep. I had to install one of those about a month ago at one of the schools I work at. We got a new interactive display to install and the existing HDMI run apparently failed while we were testing it. It was easily a 25 ft run. We happened to have an HDMI over CAT6 extender and a direct ethernet connection from a nearby wall port to where the display was. Only issue is there were 2 ethernet cables dangling from the ceiling tile and of course, they weren't labeled.
@@MactelecomNetworks yeah it's really useful for long distance, just two little converter boxes on each end. At 30ft though it's not necessary I've only found a need for it going over 50ft
I've been in Cisco environments and have now been tasked to find solutions to our smaller clientele with budget constraints. Unifi gear is a god send, however some things I'm traditionally used to such as "Stacking" doesn't look to be supported, am I wrong? How are we managing "Stacks", Lost right now.
Nice job! One recommendation for mounting the equipment. Put the screws in the bottom holes and not diagonal or the top. As gravity holds the top. Plus its a good habit for when you put taller than 1RU items in as it eliminates any torquing and twisting of the equipment.
I had a question where are you getting the wires at for the half of feet or 1 foot? They used in rackmount the connect from that black box to the unify switch it or do you hand make them
Larger service loops. tighter sweeps to patch panels. First two access points are too close. Unifi protect, and access = boo. Lucky to have conduit in the wall. Used to fishing everything.
@@MactelecomNetworks Awesome man! Looking to start a similar business after about a decade as a network engineer and building automation engineer. Thanks for your videos, they are great!
Good job but it will be interesting to know also how you configure these networks. For example do you segment data, VoIP, cctv, Guest Wi-Fi with VLANS, etc ?
I enjoy watching your videos, funny to me because in the UK we treat things like this like a factory worker, one company for cabling, another for CCTV and in house or or another company for network management, yet you do all three. I would love to do that as my daily job.
Beautiful work, Absolutely gorgeous layout. Is this circuit on emergency power? Did you put in a large UPS. I think EP is key when dealing with access control and security cameras.
@@Wintersky136 that’s what the architects spec out 🤷♂️ Currently the standard is cat 6 most people don’t need 10Gb quiet yet. Also for cat 6A , cat 7 it’s about triple in cost
Beautiful install man I wish I would have gone with ubiquiti hardware instead of FS. I like the rack it's a perfect size. Need to get one myself but a little smaller.
I really like your videos giving allot of information, and your installs are neat. Can you do a couple of videos on the settings in just unifi console? In some of your videos you lock the system down tight, others you don't cover I so much. I am trying to manage a church unifi network and end a couple of threats. Something has maipoi usage in the Gb level and trying to lock it down.
Doesn't the two switches need a link between them in case of failure of one switch or for quick transport if someone need to talk with something and can move from switch to switch. I'm simply just asking as I normally work with cisco
What do you think of the ai 360s vs the ai theta. Just did a install with 7 360s and maybe the theta would’ve looked cleaner. I know night vision is bad on the theta and without many reviews I didn’t want to risk it long term.
The view on both are great imo. I like with the theta you get two lenses one for 360 and one for wide angle if you want. In saying that I love the AI360 and we are adding one to this site as well. For the reception area the AI Theta just looked a lot better ( in this setting anyways)
Bro at least take me out to dinner before showing me that cable management
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HaHa! 😂
You always impress me with your attention to detail and the neatness if your work. Many people don’t recognize the importance of neat work until it cones time to troubleshoot. My old trade school instructor would be pleased. He always emphasized to us apprentices to do our work in a neat and workmanlike manner. Hope we get to see more on site videos.
Attention to detail? He didn’t record the most important part of setting up the cables and rack. Ridiculous. Why post the videov
Beautiful install! You are a true professional Cody. Thanks for all the great content you’ve shared over the years, I really appreciate you sharing your expertise.
Thank you for watching :) really appreciate it
Man, great work! That is a huge dentist office haha. Everything looks extremely neat and tidy. Great work man.
It’s a big place ( a doctors office not dentist) but all the same lol
it's now also thankfully protected against bandits.
Sweet install, very clean indeed. Must admit that AI theta is looking interesting. It is much more discrete but with that dewarping mode, impressive video output.
3:47 I really can‘t understand why everyone in the US is installing these cheapass open racks… haven‘t you got money or do you just give a sh** … Why on earth don‘t you install some proper Panduit, Rittal or Eaton 19‘ Wallmounted closed rack!?
Awesome watch as usual. I'm curious how tech proficient some of these businesses are before hiring you.
My contact knows quiet a bit. The doctor was recommended to me from someone in Alberta that watches my channel! Gotta love how UA-cam gets me job 😎
My favorite channel about "on site networking" tasks! Clean, concice and very professional job!
I'm impressed with the 360 camera. Do you put the door access hub above the door in the drop celling? Looks like a great install.
How do you have an AI Theta camera behind the desk? HIPPA regulations prohibit that as it can pick up personal and private data on computer monitors. for the door access, is that a back door to the office, or the network room? Did you install the emegency push to exit system too for fire code? Also for fire code in your area, are you allowed to power fail CLOSED for the lock, or do you have to power fail to OPEN?...actually, nevermind on thqat, lol, the push bar meets that requirement where in an emergency users can push bar to open door leaving the mag lock fail CLOSED for security.
With any Unifi camera you can have privacy zones so it totally blocks out certain areas ( like computer screens). For Unifi access there is a push paddle on the door so you can always exit no matter what. We never install maglocks but if you do you most definitely need to have some fail safe set
Did you use a separate firewall like PF sense or something like that or is the UDM-Pro good enough in this case? Just curious thanks
Very cool, thanks for taking the time to share.
I wouldn't wire both switches to the UDM (like a top of rack switch). It's the weakest switch in the setup and doesn't even support RSTP.
Well that’s good to know I had no clue RSTP wasn’t supported! Thanks you :)
If I had that job, I think I would have convinced the Project Manager (probably just one of the Doctor's) to buy and have installed (using different cabling paths) backup CAT-6 cables to each outlet in all critical ares. I managed the Network install of my Brother-In-Laws medical office (as a favor with no Pay). About 6-months later, a fan in one of the Air Conditioner vents was replaced, and they accidentally cut (and pulled-out for some reason) four of the CAT-6 cables, resulting in the loss of network for two Doctors on their Office Desktops (fortunately redundant using WiFi), and connectivity to their CT Scan and one X-Ray room. It took almost a week to get everything back up by running/replacing the runs (once again gratis on my part and also leading to injury on one of my knees - however there were many doctors and 'easy to look at' Nurses around to help). Lesson Learned, unless the 'easy to look at' is considered a bonus.
By the way, your wiring and rack setup is definitely a 'Show Case', and I'm jealous.
That was my thought when I saw that last cable being terminated for the door, what about backup cabling.
Do you run the cables or do you only come in and finish after an installer does the cabling?
Yup I ran all the cabling as well
Great video. I'd love to hear about how you go about customer acquisition to get and then any CRM you use to retain customers, as well as any pricing. Would especially love to hear about getting in on new installs.
If I have 6 POE devices (cameras and intercom) over 80m away from the main switch should I run 6 long cables or use small switches at some point in the middle to reduce the cables heading to the main switch?
If you had two WAN connections, how would you DAC cable the devices together? If the SFP ports were only 1Gb would you LAG the switches together?
Nice job! What is that tool you are using at 0:50 to organize the cables for wrapping? That looks handy!
Yes that's exactly what I want to know as well!
Its a cable comb ( Affiliate link) amzn.to/42857SP
Fantastic install, Cody! Thanks for your great videos.
A very clean install. Without giving specifics, what does a job like this cost in Canada today?
At my workplace we often do similar job sites with Unifi Network and cameras - do you know if there is any marketing material (like videos or pictures) we can use on our Website or instagram to promote the products?
This is my favourite type of content. So peaceful and enjoyable.
Great video man, I'm really liking the Theta!
Hi Kodi, I really love your unifi videos, I was wondering if you could make a video on unifi protect, access and talk multi site management (having same credentials and permissions that work between different sites with different dream machines or UNVR or cloud keys). Basically the setup is going to be to have a user be able to use their door access credentials in different offices and can call a different site/office with and internal extension through talk.
Why did you put on the strain relief with the cable ties that early, even before you installed the keystone modules? What do you do, of the keystone Module took too much or too less cable? The keystone would not fit anymore into the patch panel
Hi. From which manufacturer are you using this 6 inch Patch cables? 👋
I have seen that you have used other brand cameras. How do you know when to user Ubiquiti and when to use other brand cameras? It is because the user asked you for it or did you recommend it to him?
Excellent work Cody. This is the kind of installations that set the bar. Clean and well thought. Job Well Done !!!!
Nice rack organization but I always get the audio and TV guys trying to cram their stuff into the same rack
Great video! I had a a lot of funny watching everything come together.
Makes me want to get into networking as a business. Excellent work!
How many Ethernet jacks per wall box would you prefer?
so satisfying to watch all those 6 inch patch cables go in
Yep especially after seeing the mess of wires in our network cabinets at the schools I work at. I'm an IT tech for a school district. I spent many hours about 3 years ago cleaning up the cabinets at 2 sites. They're not pretty, but they look much better than when I started. Its one of my summer projects, but we have too many other projects going on and I feel we're very understaffed relative to the amount of projects we have.
At least we all know if we break into this building where the CCTV cameras are now.
I sure hope Ubiquiti gives you more attention than most when something goes wrong... or you are able to have replacement items in stock so your customers aren't the ones waiting around for them to bother paying attention to your RMA. I cannot use their products anymore. I, like many others, have been burned too many times by their abandonment and lack of real tech support. Yes, you get what you pay for... but are you REALLY getting what you pay for with them still?
Nope I'm just a guy running a business I get treated like everyone else. I have not run into many problems and when I had to RMA it was fast
What kind of patch cables are those and where did you get them?
Have you seen that tool for wire pulling/guiding in the corner of drop ceilings ? Its pretty cool, snaps on and it like a corner funnel
I have something similar called the pulling pal
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Nice & clean work Cody. Just wondering, does WAN sfp+ on udm works with switch? Thanks
They can now be configured to be a LaN port :)
Can you show the process of running cables in a business unit?
4:40 the access points are pretty close, do you enable fast roaming? Bevore i had it not enabled and my wlan call dropped and switched to normal phone mode when it switched from one ap to another, but since i enabled fast roaming, no drops or switching to normal phone mode during talking.
No fast roaming but it will be on low power. I’ll end up doing a wireless survey and if we need to move it we will.
This was the pre design now we validate
have you heard anything about number porting in canada?
Nice job. What phones are they using and how did you get them to unlock the door? as in do they work with unifi access?
Grandstream with some hosted solution. They will be using cell phones with the UID app to unlock the doors
Nice work Cody !!
Omg... you can just remove the tile.... I have been balancing and looking up this whole time... work smarter not harder i guess...
😂 yup the tiles come down
Awesome, very professional.
Curious, what is the palo alto used for? I see it hiding at the bottom of the rack..
It’s a juniper which is used for the ISP gear
That looks great bro. Love it.
HDMI over Cat 6 is so much more reliable than HDMI extenders, once you break 50ft you either need HDMI over fiber or CAT6, you can alternatively inject 5v into HDMI over 50ft for the signal to reach, but not really an ideal solution.
Yep. I had to install one of those about a month ago at one of the schools I work at. We got a new interactive display to install and the existing HDMI run apparently failed while we were testing it. It was easily a 25 ft run. We happened to have an HDMI over CAT6 extender and a direct ethernet connection from a nearby wall port to where the display was. Only issue is there were 2 ethernet cables dangling from the ceiling tile and of course, they weren't labeled.
TBH I didnt even know HDMI over cat 6 was a thing. This is only going maybe 25-30 feet and seems to work fine
@@MactelecomNetworks yeah it's really useful for long distance, just two little converter boxes on each end. At 30ft though it's not necessary I've only found a need for it going over 50ft
Anyone know what that roundish blue and yellow cable management tool is? Never seen it, but I like it.
It’s a cable comb similar to this
amzn.to/3OjNcn9
Cable job would fail fire inspection becuase its not suspended above ceiling, no cables should touch ceiling tiles.
Fire inspection passed we have jhooks
I've been in Cisco environments and have now been tasked to find solutions to our smaller clientele with budget constraints. Unifi gear is a god send, however some things I'm traditionally used to such as "Stacking" doesn't look to be supported, am I wrong? How are we managing "Stacks", Lost right now.
BIG FUCKING METAL DOOR and paper walls :P
Good work
What would you like me to do about that lol I don’t construct it
Nice job! One recommendation for mounting the equipment. Put the screws in the bottom holes and not diagonal or the top. As gravity holds the top. Plus its a good habit for when you put taller than 1RU items in as it eliminates any torquing and twisting of the equipment.
Beautiful work where do you buy vertical Cable products in Canada?
Hey I buy them from TDL Canada
I had a question where are you getting the wires at for the half of feet or 1 foot? They used in rackmount the connect from that black box to the unify switch it or do you hand make them
These are similar to the ones I use. Affiliate link amzn.to/3LFf1El
Larger service loops. tighter sweeps to patch panels. First two access points are too close. Unifi protect, and access = boo.
Lucky to have conduit in the wall. Used to fishing everything.
Fantastic craftsmanship. Very well done. Enjoyed looking at your cabling work.
Looks great!
Hello Cody, do you make your own 0.15m cables ? If not, where did you buy theim ?
Excellent video! Where did you put the UA-Hub Access Hub?
Dude! You're neater than me, and I didn't think it was possible. I learned from you today! Thank you!
Nice setup, a rack shelf is just that a shelf, so far you've figured your own mounting options that works for you, who's to say what's better
Good morning, Cody, what wire comb did you use at this site?
Hey,
This is the one I currently use
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( Amazon affiliate link)
Is there a profession where one can do this type of work without working at an MSP?
Hmmm not sure I just do this on my own. You could just work for a cable installation company they may also do some networking
Wouldn't you want to have two other switches for failover? Something like the aggregation switch?
Love these cabling videos. All my clients are remote. So satisfying to watch.
@ 1:23 what was that crimper? It crimped the keystone jack all at once?
It’s the vertical cable 1 punch tool
what was the cost of this job ?
Looks awesome!
Clean setup!
First thought was I bed this is the video of the same office you posted the picture of on reddit
Is this all just recording to the UDM SE?
The cameras currently are yup
Would have loved to hear those satisfying clicks at 2:43
I know!!! I should have done that.
Where can i buy that cable management tool?
This is what I use now ( Affiliate link)
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What do you use for IPAM/CMDB ?
I use IT Glue but for this job were passing it over to another msp anyways
Amazing content! Does anyone know the name of the tool Cody uses to bunch the cables together at 0:45 ??
It’s called a cable comb. Affiliate link below
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@@MactelecomNetworks Thank you so much for the prompt reply! I have been searching high and low for this lol Cheers!
Did you run the cable or was that outsourced?
We ran the cable
Do you need to have an emergency release for the door latch that’s controlled by the Unifi system?
You can exit this door no matter what it has a push handle that allows you out
@@MactelecomNetworks I am trying to work out, if it has the push to exit latch what is the point of an access controller on the door?
What 6-inch patch cables are those? link?
These aren’t the exact ones. The ones I use are from infinite cables in Canada
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Another great project. Thanks for sharing.
are you the only one running all the cables drop?
Pretty much I had help the one day
Do you have an electrician physically run all the cabling or do you do that as well?
I do it my self :)
@@MactelecomNetworks Awesome man! Looking to start a similar business after about a decade as a network engineer and building automation engineer. Thanks for your videos, they are great!
Do the contractors label all the cat lines when they run them?
Well I mean I ran all the cables 😂 yup everything is labelled with a wire wrap
Good job but it will be interesting to know also how you configure these networks. For example do you segment data, VoIP, cctv, Guest Wi-Fi with VLANS, etc ?
Hey I do have other video that show setups of UDM pros from start to finish :)
pretty slick
I have the same V-Max 1-Punch Down Termination tool, do you need specific RJ45 Keystone Jacks to use with the tool? thank you.
Need to use the vertical cable VMAX jacks
I've question, why do you use wooden backplate, is something wrong with walls in US/Canada?
Nothing wrong with the walls. It just gives us space behind the rack if we even need to run a cable behind it. Also I prefer it a bit off the wall
I enjoy watching your videos, funny to me because in the UK we treat things like this like a factory worker, one company for cabling, another for CCTV and in house or or another company for network management, yet you do all three. I would love to do that as my daily job.
Ya I love doing buildouts from start to finish. Some companies only hire us for one thing. But ends up cheaper for them if we do it all
Nice work! That little Thea camera works well too
Beautiful work, Absolutely gorgeous layout. Is this circuit on emergency power? Did you put in a large UPS. I think EP is key when dealing with access control and security cameras.
They have a big ups that they provided ( not rackmountable)
2:00 while in germany everyone installs Cat. 7 cabling, in the US people still install Cat. 6 & 5 🤣😂
Get cat 6/6a or cat 8. Skip cat 7, like IEEE and EIA did.
Yup that's what was spec'd for the job
@@Wintersky136 that’s what the architects spec out 🤷♂️
Currently the standard is cat 6 most people don’t need 10Gb quiet yet. Also for cat 6A , cat 7 it’s about triple in cost
this is amazing
Beautiful install man I wish I would have gone with ubiquiti hardware instead of FS. I like the rack it's a perfect size. Need to get one myself but a little smaller.
I know a few companies who went with FS as Unifi didnt have stock. Its not back but the interface is a little harder to work with
Dude, that’s one sexy install!!
I really like your videos giving allot of information, and your installs are neat. Can you do a couple of videos on the settings in just unifi console? In some of your videos you lock the system down tight, others you don't cover I so much. I am trying to manage a church unifi network and end a couple of threats. Something has maipoi usage in the Gb level and trying to lock it down.
Hey James,
I am planning on doing more videos shortly just waiting on the network controller update
Doesn't the two switches need a link between them in case of failure of one switch or for quick transport if someone need to talk with something and can move from switch to switch.
I'm simply just asking as I normally work with cisco
You can and I've actually added a cable between :)
Hey brother I just discovered your channel about a week ago and have been enjoying your videos very much. Your work is super clean, thanks for sharing
Appreciate you watching :)
i hope they dont burn down or get hacked
Why would they lol. Also I’m not managing this network anyways another msp is
What do you think of the ai 360s vs the ai theta. Just did a install with 7 360s and maybe the theta would’ve looked cleaner. I know night vision is bad on the theta and without many reviews I didn’t want to risk it long term.
The view on both are great imo. I like with the theta you get two lenses one for 360 and one for wide angle if you want. In saying that I love the AI360 and we are adding one to this site as well. For the reception area the AI Theta just looked a lot better ( in this setting anyways)