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Edit: ideally wifi cameras that I can solar power.

Looking to replace my Arlo cameras with something self-hostable. Arlo lets you store on a USB stick, but there's no way to get out from under their cloud, which gets more expensive all the time.

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[–] nottelling@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I already hate Ubiquiti's Unifi networking that I got myself stuck with. I won't do any of their other products.

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whys that? Stability has improved the last few years, and the value cant be beat with UDM pro and even their lowest cost camera options.

[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

(if this comment reads like I feel slighted it's because I do)

Their networking ecosystem is very focused on a specific class of prosumer and once in it can be very difficult to upgrade out of that bubble to toys that have more growth capacity, from both a tech and learning perspective.

I have an advanced network with dynamic routing (iBGP and OSPF), as well as several VPN protocols for both site to site and access VPN. I also have redundant layer 3 gateways everywhere in the main site. Ubiquiti has had the tech to make redundant layer 3 for YEARS, but they refuse to and instead stop updating useful product lines that have more features and instead focus on gimmick products that have flashy marketing campaigns. Even on one of their more feature-ful routers (ER-4), I have to use OpenVPN gateway servers because Ubiquiti doesn't support plugins that I can get on *sense for full mesh VPNs.

I can really only use them at layer 2 because once I hit my network core I need redundancy protocols at L2 (stacking or vPC/MLAG) to maintain a system that can keep vSAN and Ceph happy.

I'm really glad I went the *sense route instead of taking a chance on a USG-3 and depending on the custom json file to load OSPF, because that's a feature they removed from newer gateways iirc.