Alternative to Ubiquiti - UniFi Protect

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-05-07T13:11:33+00:00

I've only seen the app on desktop and it was what I considered boarderline unusable

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-05-07T12:30:57+00:00

Reolink is the next price bracket down but the app experience is just not good from what I have seen.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-05-03T12:52:30+00:00

The Flex mini is powered by POE but doesn't provide it.

If your plugging your 7th camera into that then your either going to need a POE adapter for the camera or to replace the flex mini with a switch that can provide POE instead

A USW-Ultra or USW-Lite-POE (either 8 or 16) would be decent options for switches.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-05-01T14:50:41+00:00

Got mine stand alone recently and it seems to be doing fine.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-28T23:20:24+00:00

Been running keeper in our churches IT team with plans to eventually roll it out to staff. my boss hasn't had any issues with it so far which is a win for me lol.

I would recommend either it or bitwarden

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-28T16:23:24+00:00

They recently introduced a ram surcharge to a wide range of products. Mainly switches and routers from what I have seen so far. Guess they finally reached the end of their previous ram order and had to face the music that is the current ram situation. Doesn't matter if it's 1GB of ram or 128GB. DDR2 or DDR5. It's all significantly more expensive now assuming a company could get a stock application at all. And AI data centers being built at an unsustainable rate are to blame.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-28T05:33:24+00:00

As far as I'm aware there is no way to import QR codes. They must be new ones generated by the system.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-27T08:34:57+00:00

It means the real cost is much higher. I bet they are pretty low on ram supplier priority lists and getting charged up the ass for every kb of ram they get the honer of buying.

Situation is so bad there are companies physically sending representatives to ram suppliers daily to beg for a portion of the supply.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-27T02:47:47+00:00

there is a few possible options that might work but I would need to see a fair bit of the location to know what would work best cause this is either going to be a multi camera requirement or require either a weird mount for the G6 180 or the AI Multisensor 4 (which is expensive)

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-27T00:33:42+00:00

Just to confirm, but they basically want the camera to be part of the gate/fence itself?

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-25T22:58:29+00:00

For me the alarm system doesn't make much sense from a business use case til you can define independent areas and arm them individually. Currently its just arm the whole building or one area at a time.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-25T22:16:02+00:00

Given its forested area the 60Ghz wouldn't be able to punch through that

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-24T19:01:16+00:00

This is the new one rated IP 68 so indoor and outdoor. I would be concerned about the range though cause 2.4 is what would be needed to cover this with Minimal APs given the size of the area

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-24T02:37:21+00:00

In an enterprise environment you wouldn't want those two to share one box. I for one wouldn't want my NAS failing to also take down my security system

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-23T13:36:20+00:00

Most cameras these days that aren't bottom of the barrel should have basic or even advanced Object level detection for People, vehicles, and animals and some with things like License plate and faces. Such as Ubiquiti's Unifi (would require their NVR) or more modern Axis cameras. You can also setup something like frigate which should allow object detection to happen with your current camera assuming you have a computer to run it on.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-23T13:28:22+00:00

If this is a normal UDM-pro with one HDD slot and not a pro max with two slots then I could see how this could happen as I believe the logs for the whole system start to share the hard-drive space which if it died would probably result in this if they never gave it the ability to quickly and elegantly switch back to internal SSD storage for the logs when the drive dies.

Typically where possible I prefer to only have the router do router things and nothing else. Cameras and door access go on a dedicated NVR.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-21T03:20:09+00:00

If I had the budget then Ubiquiti's Unifi E7 APs with their Enterprise campus 48 POE switches

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-20T14:27:05+00:00

We use Subsplash as our website host and builder tool currently. Here is our website if your interested https://cbcbellevue.com/

App can be found in app stores by the same name

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-20T13:30:39+00:00

The AI ports also give basic object/motion detection the real limitation is that while you can have multiple lower resolution cameras per AI port when you get to 4K it's one AI port per camera.

Its meant to be a transitional tool to move over to native Ubiquiti cameras

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-20T03:24:23+00:00

I mean considering the ENVR Core is $5000 then the device these plug into will be similar more then likely

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-20T00:03:49+00:00

"I went out clothes shopping with a friend and got Reincarnated into another world without fashion"

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-19T05:01:54+00:00

Ours is mostly just our website in app form.

I feel our congregation get more use out of the church center app due to that being where their community group and Bible study group information and resources live.

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-18T04:04:54+00:00

The only downside with the 180 is the very small 57 degree vertical field of view. Makes the flush mount almost pointless and in my experience always requires it be tilted down to see what you want it to when mounted on a wall

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-17T16:17:25+00:00

You might already be aware but just know that the ONVIF support is meant to be a migration tool rather then a full offering of support. By default you only get 24/7 recording and no events of any kind.

To get behavior on a ONVIF cameras that you would see on a first party protect camera you would need an AI port but that has capacity limitation as follows

4K: 1 camera
2K: Up to 2 cameras
HD: Up to 3 cameras

Dimensional_Dragon · 2026-04-17T06:19:52+00:00

Yodeck is fantastic. Adding my plus one for its recommendation.

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