Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

• archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unifi looks amazing, but those cameras and dream machines are so fuckin expensive

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  • Dimand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Purely anecdotal but in my experience unify is overpriced garbage. Had a dream machine die at 13 months and could only get an, it’s out of warranty, buy a new one response. Looking at the internals it was pretty clear they were never designed with any service in mind.

    They also force you into plenty of cloud bullshit. They lost my password hash for my local device because they fucked up some cloud transfer. If I didn’t have an SSH key I would have been screwed.

    It takes a bunch of time and tech know-how but foss has been a much better solution. Have a openwrt pi4 router, truenas server and switched my Wyze cams to openmiko firmware. Far better than anything offered by these prosumer companies.

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    • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have ubiquiti access points and a router, and a Tp-link Omada router. The Unifi interface is more slick, but the Omada interface is good too. And the Omada stuff costs a lot less.

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      • Dimand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Plus you can flash wrt to a lot of the TP-Link stuff including the access points. I haven’t looked in ages but I remember that most or all ubiquity stuff was locked down.

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