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The Start... almost empty 42u Canovate Rack Cabinet on casters in the garage
Few things added but not connected or powered (from the top): Patch Panel, UniFi 24 port POE switch, Control4 EA-5 (the brain), Pioneer SC-LX501, Control4 16 Channel Matrix, Control4 16 Channel Amp, 2x 1u Blanking Plate, APC Smart 1500VA UPS
More added, most items powered and connected (messily). Items added: Unifi 3G Flex, UniFi USG-PRO-4, UniFi 24 Port Switch, Control4 HC-800 (used for extra Control4 Audio outputs, UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 Plus, Nvidia Shield, Apple TV 4K, Furman M-10X E Power Conditioner, Dual CPU Unraid 4u Server (Unraid Server will have a separate post as it includes lots from a Nvidia 1080 Ti to CCTV software etc)
Little more added before final few items (possible HDBaseT Matrix, second AVR, dedicated 2u Blue Iris Quick Sync unit) and final relocation of units: dedicated 2u Plex Quick Sync transcoder* (photo below shows what’s inside), UniFi Cloud Key G2 Rack Mount, horizontal cable management bar. Yes, the Unraid server case is not fully on the rails and the top is off as was swapping the CPU fans. Also, soon to come is partitioning the cabinet as I never park inside it and may become a home cinema room ?
* Most of the insides of the 2u Plex Quick Sync transcoder. Pretty basic but does the only job it’s intended for which is Plex hardware transcoding. It’s running Ubuntu Server with is headless so no GUI but can of course with the Plex web GUI. The Unraid server is still quite a beast with a passmark of 20789 (thanks to its dual CPU’s) but Xeon E5’s don’t support Quick Sync. Having this dedicated 8th Gen i3-8100 build does a very good job of transcoding video leaving the Unraid Server more power for its dockers images/Virtual Machines. It’s also cheaper than a putting a Nvidia P2000 into it. Ubuntu Server is installed on a M.2 NVMe drive so metadata loading is extremely quick
Also added a new bit of software to the Control4 system, the UniFi Controller Driver. Photo is of a Control4 7” T3 Tabletop Screen displaying the UniFi Network. Driver is still in beta but pretty much fully working apart from not usable on the Control4 iOS or Android app yet. Again, instead flicking through multiple apps like Nest, Blue Iris, UniFi (this), WeMo, etc, Control4 combines them all into one app which is great