This post is late, but I definitely do not recommend Ubiquiti cameras following their decision to go back on their promise (and previous company focus) of havin

This post is late, but I definitely do not recommend Ubiquiti cameras following their decision to go back on their promise (and previous company focus) of having end user flexibility and instead tying their UniFi Protect offering exclusively to their own proprietary cloud key. They made it worse by having a marketer PR guy come in to a thread of the community offering concerns and spouting a bunch of transparently garbage excuses. UniFi Video is basically in maintenance mode at this point and will probably be EOL'd soon, Protect was what everyone was expecting (and has mostly been positioned as) the successor. And nobody objects to the existence of support in "Cloud Keys" (Ubiquiti's own little all in one computer/controller offering, think like a POE raspberry pi type deal) of course. But making something like this exclusive to CKs is a new and extremely unwelcome thing for them, and should be a real red flag even if it's not tied to the cloud.