Here in the PacNW, anytime I mount anything with an opening that faces upwards, I think about all the ways water can pour into it 
Just force of habit...
Shock and surprise in the first few words and then I remembered you are the originator of the Hubitat 'stick on a rope trick' 
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Not a bad thought, but water finds its path. Keep that little angle dry!
I bought a small piece of acrylic (6" x 6") screwed it to the wall and used two strips of Velcro to hold the hub to it.
I've used this setup before on my VeraPlus and it never fell down. And if I need to move the hub near a stubborn device I can just pull it off the wall. My orientation is: wires up, light shines down (so I can see it).
That's a good idea!
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The sombrero is all I want to talk about though! 
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+5pts for the use of "jaunty" in a sentence.
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Similar thread with additional answers:
There's a lot of interesting Zigbee related info in this installation guide (for an unrelated Zigbee product) if you are concerned about antenna radiation patterns in a multi-story application.
Kind of glad I found this after my setup was installed and working in the first spot I happened to choose... looks like a lot of things can cause issues. The dead zones and interference potentials may account for some of the problem installations that come up from time to time.
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Well here's an anecdote. Yesterday after asking the question about mounting, I ended up mounting the hubitat on a wall with the stick pointing up vertically. Previously it had been sitting on a shelf in the same closet with the stick oriented horizontally.
Before all this I had some trouble connecting the lock to my back door. I finally got it working, but after re-orienting the hub the lock still thought it was connected but commands weren't making it to it. Nothing else had changed except re-orienting the hub vertically and moving it about 2ft. I repaired the z-wave mesh last night with the hub in its new vertical orientation and the lock is working again this morning.
I'm guessing that the different radiation pattern between horizontal and vertical orientation caused some nodes in the mesh to be unavailable as first hops and other's to be preferred? Something like that.
I’d be interested to know if the usb stick is horizontally or vertically polorised.
Are zigbee/z-wave concerned about polorisation?
I’ve never read the spec
Andy
The USB stick has an internal PCB with copper forming an antenna. This is pretty standard, I know the Wink and Staples Connect, when I took those apart, had the same.
Sorry for the zombie revival, but I just got my C-5 hub, and it's TINY! I'm planning to wall mount it with a 3m command strip. Are there any issues with this? I note the whole bottom is ventilation and that would be somewhat covered (unless I mount it with the top against the wall).
Thanks!
I don't have a C-5 but that hasn't stopped me from wondering if an Echo Dot wall mount would work. Maybe an Apple TV wall mount? (probably either are too "thick." As in expecting a taller/thicker device.)
The C-5 is possibly a similar footprint to an apple tv. Way thinner... but hmm. I do have an old apple tv mount...
actually, no. the C-5 is listed as being sub 3" square... apple tv's are 4", about.
If you have a solid surface to mount to (i.e. not wall paing) I use Velcro. Makes removal for whatever very easy.
As for the ventilation,... don't know.
I love the command strips that are for picture hanging. They're like velcro 2.0 (they're kinda like a bunch of mushrooms). I split one of those lengthwise and put half on each side of the hub. plenty of open ventilation.
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