UniPhi DC -- Home Edition Complete

UniPhi DC — Home Edition Complete ($999)

The installer plus thirty days of the inventor's time. UniPhi DC Home Edition Complete bundles the same patent-pending Home Edition software described under the Installer tier with a thirty-day window of direct email setup support from the inventor — a personally answered inbox during which you can ask about any deployment question, any router quirk, any node-pairing failure, any application bundle you want to run on the rack. The Installer tier sells the artifact. The Complete tier sells the artifact and the relationship.

Why Complete instead of Installer

The Installer tier is the right purchase for a buyer who is comfortable reading the README, reviewing the open-source-equivalent dashboard, running a six-digit code through three or four machines, and using the built-in troubleshooter to interpret any failure. UniPhi DC was engineered to make that buyer succeed within an evening; the troubleshooter command exists specifically because the inventor spent four hours debugging a router on a Friday and refused to ship a product that would inflict the same evening on anyone else.

The Complete tier exists for the buyer who would rather not. Maybe the home network is unusual — two routers in series, a Wi-Fi extender bridging into a third subnet, an Internet-service-provider router with surprising defaults, a guest network that blocks peer-to-peer traffic. Maybe the buyer wants a particular application to run on the rack (a media library, a personal Jupyter, a home-automation runtime) and wants help packaging it as a UniPhi bundle. Maybe the buyer simply does not want to read a README at all. The Complete tier turns the deployment into a conversation with the person who designed the system.

What you get at this tier

• Everything in the Installer tier — the signed-ready UniPhi-DC-Home-Edition-v0.2.0.zip (37 MB), the self-installing Windows service registration, the tray icon, the dashboard, the troubleshooter, the permanent right to deploy on the household's machines. SHA-256 included in the order email.
• Thirty days of inventor email support, starting on the day the order is delivered. Average response within one business day; faster for blocking issues. The inventor reads, diagnoses, and writes back personally. There is no support-ticket queue and no first-line agent; the email goes directly to the same person who designed the fabric.
• Pre-deployment network review. Send the output of uniphi-dc doctor from one of your machines and the inventor reviews the results before you start, points out anything unusual, and tells you the cheapest fix per item flagged.
• One custom application packaging. Identify one application you want to run on the rack — a media server, an automation runtime, a personal cloud service, a development tool — and the inventor packages it as a UniPhi bundle for you, with the manifest tuned to your machines' capabilities. Delivered as a tar.gz ready to deploy.
• Written deployment summary at the end of the thirty-day window: a personalized summary of how your rack was set up, what runs on it, what to do if something breaks, and what to email the inventor about during any future incident.
• Priority access to updates during the support window. Any minor revision of the binary released during the thirty days is sent to you first, with a written change description, before it is offered to other buyers.

How the support window works in practice

You send an email to the address printed on the dashboard. You describe what you are trying to do or what went wrong. You may attach screenshots, error text, the output of uniphi-dc doctor, or the relevant lines of the structured JSON log. The inventor reads it personally and writes back with the answer, the fix, or the next diagnostic to run. The window is thirty calendar days from delivery; the inventor does not count individual support emails against a cap — ask as many questions as you need.

What the window does not include: scheduled video calls, screen-sharing sessions, on-site visits, or anything that requires the inventor to be present in real time. Those are excluded by design so that the email-only workflow remains the offered service for every Home Edition buyer — fair to all buyers, scalable to the inventor's calendar. If a real-time engagement is necessary for your deployment, the Family Pack tier or a custom engagement is the appropriate path.

Design target (same as Installer; reproduced here for completeness)

Numbers measured on a Windows host with eighty logical cores and thirty-two gigabytes of RAM, real TCP loopback. Residential Wi-Fi 6 adds approximately three-tenths of a millisecond round-trip; treat these as upper bounds.

• Deploy latency p50, one through eight nodes — approximately one hundred milliseconds.
• Deploy latency p99, eight-node rack — approximately one hundred twenty-three milliseconds.
• Sustained throughput, single client — approximately ten deploys per second.
• Replication throughput, sixteen-megabyte file, N=3 replicas — approximately twenty-three megabytes per second user-visible.
• Reschedule recovery, eight-node rack, five apps moved — approximately two hundred eighty-one milliseconds algorithm-only.

One hundred thirty automated tests pass on the codebase. Numbers reproducible: uniphi-dc bench --scale 1,2,4,8 --apps 30 --output bench.md.

Enterprise-grade features that ship inside Home Edition

The Home Edition binary is built from the same codebase as the flagship UniPhi DC product. Features that are usually pitched at enterprise rates are present in this $999 SKU:

• Persistent hub state with crash recovery. Every state change is appended to a hash-chained, fsync-on-write JSON-Lines event log. The hub can crash, be killed, or be restarted for an update; on the next start it replays the log and the rack continues exactly as before. Audit-grade — tail -F state.log or pipe to any SIEM.
• Prometheus metrics endpoint. The hub's /metrics route returns standard Prometheus exposition text with counters, gauges, and histograms (deploy latency, replication MB/s, event-log size, peers seen). Point any Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, DataDog, or open-source dashboard at it.
• Structured JSON logs with trace identifiers. One JSON object per line, ingestible by Loki, Splunk, Elastic, or grep.
• Optional mutual-TLS. The HMAC pairing code is fine for a household; for the unusual home where mutual-TLS is wanted, the same binary supports per-peer X.509 certs signed by a small in-cluster CA. The Complete tier's support window covers helping you configure it if you want.
• Optional role-based access control with multi-tenant quotas. Roles include admin, operator, viewer, and tenant. Tenants have per-tenant maximum-app and maximum-RAM quotas. Off by default; one CLI command enables it.
• Real resource enforcement. Apps that exceed their declared RAM budget are killed by a watchdog within two hundred fifty milliseconds. POSIX hosts get setrlimit; every host gets the watchdog.

What is NOT included

• Commercial deployment. Single-household, non-commercial, residential use only. For commercial, OEM, multi-tenant, multi-site, or service-provider deployments, see the flagship UniPhi listings.
• Telephone, video, or real-time support. Email-only.
• International sale. USA-only. USD only.
• Hardware. Software only; use the PCs and router you already own.
• Custom code or feature development. Application packaging is included; new feature work in the UniPhi DC binary itself is not.
• Support beyond thirty days. The window closes at thirty calendar days after delivery. Renewal is available by emailing the inventor; pricing is negotiated per renewal.

System requirements

• One always-on Windows 10 or 11 PC for the hub; any modern CPU, four gigabytes of RAM minimum, twenty gigabytes free disk minimum.
• One or more additional Windows 10 or 11 PCs for nodes; same baseline.
• One residential Wi-Fi router (Wi-Fi 5 / 6 / 6E acceptable, WPA2 / WPA3). Wired Ethernet works.
• No Python, Docker, or Kubernetes install required. The bundled binary is everything.
• Administrator rights on the hub machine for the one-time firewall registration UAC prompt.
• A working email account at which to receive support replies.

How to order

Email christopher@cri-one.com with subject UniPhi Home Edition — UNIPHI-HOME-COMPLETE. Payment by reply. Delivery by email; the artifact and a personalized welcome message arrive once payment clears. The thirty-day support window begins the day the delivery email is sent. A reply to that delivery email opens your thread with the inventor for the full window.

Postal contact:
Christopher Gabriel Brown
1341 Wellington Cove
Lawrenceville, GA 30043-5255
United States

Patent-pending. USA-only sales. United States Dollars only. Email-only contact.