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Reiterating this: Management and updates are wonderful through the unifi app. It functions similarly to Meraki, better in my experience and there's no recurri
by halbritt 8y ago
Reiterating this: Management and updates are wonderful through the unifi app. It functions similarly to Meraki, better in my experience and there's no recurring fees.
The app can be self-hosted, run in the cloud, or on something they call a "cloud key" that's not much more than a Raspberry Pi.
I've run it on a Pi3, and it's a little bit laggy, but tolerable. I prefer to run it on my little x86 server.
Both the self-hosted and the cloud version can be managed remotely, which is neat.
There are a host of other benefits, but given the price (around $100 per AP), I see no reason to use the more commonplace consumer grade stuff. Check out the unifi demo here:
https://demo.ubnt.com/manage/site/outlets/dashboard https://demo.ubnt.com/manage/site/outlets/dashboard
- pedrocr 8y agoFor me LEDE/OpenWRT are easy enough to configure and fully open source. APs are also about half the price you quote and the selection is much wider as it works with most manufacturers (including UniFi's). So I see no reason to depend on a more expensive closed-source solution that I never know when it might go away.
- halbritt 8y agoOpenWRT is pretty powerful, certainly. If you prefer an open source solution, that's definitely the way to go. I've used OpenWRT which I liked quite a lot, but I prefer the ease of having an integrated solution with the Unifi products.