The same is true for our AI processing on the cameras. This is entirely local and private. You can even air gap the UniFi Protect system from the Internet and it'll operate fine.

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throwaway219450 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I do like the onboard AI, and it works well for entity detection (like people). We haven't found the face detection to be very reliable in outdoor security applications. There doesn't seem to be a way to correct/combine classes if someone's detected as multiple individuals on different occasions, so we end up with the same person detected as 5 "unknown"s. This is not a hard problem to solve. You'd just allow embedding matching to different face groups, but it's annoying as a user.

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infecto an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The cost is just insane though. $4-$500 for a camera that I can get equivalent specs for $50-100.

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kube-system 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

IME those sub-$100 Chinese IP cameras have you at the mercy of whatever firmware they cut from the master branch the week they shipped it. People don't buy UI because they win on specs-per-dollar. They buy it because they win on results-per-dollar.

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9x39 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With face detection? License plates? Tamper protection?

I'm guessing you're thinking Reolink or other Chinese ultra-commodity cam. It's fine, it's just in a different product class and ecosystem - and that's where enterprises fit in, they want that support+ecosystem and not DIYing.

Reolink CX820 8MP $129 https://reolink.com/product/cx820/

Unifi G6 8MP ~$300 https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/physical-security/uvc-g6-dome...

Avigilon H6A 8MP ~$1200 https://www.avigilon.com/security-cameras/h6a-dome

	▲	infecto 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I never really thought of Ubiquity as enterprise always felt more of the premium small to mid sized business but I am sure some enterprises use them.

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projektfu an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're not all $500, some are $150-300. Overall price comparable to Honeywell, but more than, say, Lorex.

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throwaway219450 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

All the basic G6 cameras are in the $200 range and have edge compute?

What's the comparison at $50-100?

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eptcyka 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can I use it without running some inane management VM?

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lostlogin an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The UDM runs mine, but prior to that I ran a Docker container with it. It worked well.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/unifi-controller

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Avicebron an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Genuine question, if you're running unifi, why don't you want the management vm? Synology makes a decent NAS without the controller.

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InTheArena an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Synology hardware stopped being decent a while ago.

	▲	pinewurst 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Plus their drive type restrictions which are poison in a cost-sensitive NAS. (Seemingly rolled back recently, but a roll back can be easily rolled back itself. I don't trust them enough to count on that not happening.)

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eptcyka an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I like the hardware, cannot stand needing to run another machine just for management.

	▲	linohh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If you get one of the Cloud devices, you won't need to, as they bring their own.