Thanks Steven for taking the time to reply. I totally hear you about the the correct answers haha. One minute I was reading a forum post where it says NEVER use ZIGBEE devices and then I see another saying it’s the best thing since sliced cheesed hahah…
So I totally understand every setup will be unique and so many different factors can come in where the same device can work amazing on a farm but you take it to grand central station and it doesn’t work =)
-Good question, I will have to find out. I think the owners need 2 systems really. The one that insurance company really cares about I think is the fire alarm panel on the property and they already have some kind of monitoring on that system but I don’t think its good.
- I have never worked on the UNI mesh system, so ignore any of my silly question regarding this =). I think it was just setup and left as is on the property. I see the UNI devices upstairs where I plugged in my Raspberry PI 4. I think I should have all the admin passwords to access the admin section of the network and make any changes I need.
-I was going to take a tape measure out and draw the property to upload on here before replying to you but I didn’t get a chance. It basically goes House 1 - Small Barn - Big Barn - House 2 - Another Barn. All these have the WIFI reaching them from the UNI network.
If I had to guess House 1 is maybe 200 feet from the Small Barn.
Small barn could be 300 feet from the Big Barn.
Big Barn to House 2 is maybe 50 feet.
Then from House 2 to another barn is the longest with maybe 400-feet.
Would it be recommended to have the HA device in each of the house and then let them communicate with each other via the WIFI or maybe I could run just one CAT6 cable between them all or it doesn’t work that way?
-Thanks for the information on the Raspberry PI. I only went with that method because I have 5 of them laying around doing nothing and I figured to use them to just get the hang of this. I would like to build my own little server box and mount it on the wall. So I totally understand your feeling on this =)