Comment by windexh8er

I have a couple sites with both types of cameras. And I really love all the customizability with my Frigate / Reolink site. But UniFi can command the premium on the camera hardware because of all the features they give you on the software side of their NVR. It's far better than what you get out of the box compared to something like Reolink in terms of detection and set-it-and-forget-it mentality.

I have a site that has 8 cameras and 2 of the 8 are original cameras that are >5 years old still getting firmware updates. Reolink does not do this and I have had much higher failure rate with them as well. Especially in outdoor cameras that have to handle snow/ice/extreme cold.