You have my attention… Does it have a good / comparable app that you can use to view recordings?
moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m very happy with my ubiquiti doorbell. It records to a local NVR on my network.
Prox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The iOS app is decent, and the web interface is excellent imo. Web has better search. I think the AI computer vision stuff performs slightly worse than Ring. E.g. package detection is pretty good but not great. However, pretty impressive considering everything is running locally. I think they have some dedicated hardware now for running local computer vision stuff that likely performs better.
raid_dad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been telling anyone that will listen about my ubiquiti setup. Storing the video data locally is the only scenario that I’m comfortable with. I can still remotely log into my network and check camera footage, but no one else has access to it.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ubiquity has been awesome. I’m running a cloud gateway max and a single U7 pro wall AP. It was $400 all the networking stuff, and $300 for the doorbell. The doorbell was a little steep, but you gotta remember there’s no subscription. And after trying a bunch of routers, $400 is honestly a great value for the quality of the networking gear. And I have a ton of headroom for upgrades in the future.
I’ve heard ubiquiti support isn’t the best for professional installments, but in the home, it’s been fantastic.
raid_dad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m a certified network engineer so I wasn’t too fussed with their support. I have a Dream Machine, a 24 port PoE switch, two APs (one U6 Lite, and one U7 Lite that I added later), and three cameras. We mostly just use the cameras to check on the cats when we’re out of town, but it’s nice to have the extra security just in case.
Is the setup a little excessive: absolutely. Is it awesome to know within seconds if there’s an issue with my network or if it’s just another ISP outage: also yes.
In the five years that I’ve had this setup, I’ve had exactly one issue with the network and it was just that one of the APs died after four years of continuous use.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Considering how much money I spent on crappy router/WiFi solutions, I think the UniFi stuff is very reasonably priced. From a software standpoint, it’s definitely overkill. The only wall I hit so far is I don’t think you can send IPv6 traffic over a VPN. I use a network level VPN to Mullvad via Wireshark. I whitelist devices to VPN but blacklist some domains that don’t play nice with a VPN. If I turn on IPv6, it leaks my location via IPv6 address. But if I turn it off, Mullvad reports my location is hidden. 🤷