Comment by tills13

1 year ago

If you're like me and you want something that Just Works -- ubiquiti's offering is fully local and has all the features you'd want including alerts, ml detection (on some first party cameras), app, timeline, etc. They recently started allowing third party cameras, too, so all you need is a Cloud Gateway (USG Ultra is $150) and you're good to go.

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tuchsen  1 year ago

The last time I upgraded my networking setup (just as the pandemic started) I went with Ubiquiti, shortly after (before?) they started default forcing you to sign up for their cloud service to use the router, you can switch it to a locally operated mode after you sign up but they bury it in the options. Their networking equipment works great, don't get me wrong, but they don't open source anything. I keep waiting for the full rug pull when sales start to slow because everything they release is rock solid and everything I have is "good enough." I don't feel the need to upgrade for as long as the rug pull doesn't happen.

I am super grateful people are starting to work on open source solutions to this stuff :).

sneak  1 year ago

It is reasonable to assume that Ubiquiti has remote access to your fully local data, given that they run the auth server and also push automatically installed updates.

  • tills13  1 year ago

    > they run the auth server

    I don't think this is true unless you are logging into your router using the ui.com console. Logging in to my UDM POSTs to the local address and works without a WAN connection.

    > also push automatically installed updates

    I suppose if you've enabled them.