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You can still use their products without a dedicated box or cloud accounts by running the UnifFi admin console in your own network. Can you clarify what you mea
by barbazoo 5y ago
You can still use their products without a dedicated box or cloud accounts by running the UnifFi admin console in your own network. Can you clarify what you mean?
- GekkePrutser 5y agoI understand that the UDM range of products can no longer be set up without a cloud account, and none of the video products can he hosted locally. I was thinking of a newer gateway as the USG is too slow to do decent IDS. And the video for my home.. But I didn't buy either for this reason. I looked at it about 2 years ago. It feels like they want to do the same with the older network gear but they just won't because there will be too much backlash from the move.
- zrail 5y agoAll of my wireless gear and most of my switching is UniFi running against a self-hosted controller without cloud access. This works fine. However, UniFi Protect is hardware only. You have to have either a UDM, a CloudKey Gen2 Plus, or a UNVR. I bought into Protect a couple years ago and now I'm sort of stuck with it. I _think_ that I could de-provision the cameras from my UNVR and use them standalone with BlueIris or Frigate but I've heard stories that they gimp the RTSP resolution on the G4 Pro camera (of which I have three).
- unethical_ban 5y agoThey don't necessarily promote their self-hosting software method of Unifi management, and they outright removed support for Unifi Protect unless you buy hardware. Want your surveillance video to be cloud-hosted or on your own pre-existing RAID? Pound sand!