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Disadvantages of unifi -the price is 2 times higher for cameras with similar characteristics. You cannot record video on a backup DVR normally. Low reliability (for example, the G4 pro camera).
I've had Ubiquity equipment for some time meshing my property, and I really think that a camera this size should be able to double as a WIFI access point since you need to run the POE+ cable.
Great video. Please help - Can you be notified for all unknown and persons of interest and not for "safe/known" people? Also, can you setup notifications based on time (notify me if people are in my yard between 6pm and 7am but not other hours) or can you setup an away mode (go on holidays so be notified of all cars/people in your yard but revert back to normal settings when you return without changing every individual camera setting)? thank you in advance. i am looking at switching to Unifi for all my cameras (currently Hikvision)
Thanks for all the great vids. Must of spent a number of hours on your channel now! 👍🏻. What would you suggest for front door camera at home? Have just bought a G5 ultra and G5 bullet for areas in the home as my first UniFi cameras! Appreciate any advice you can share as this will be one of the most important cameras! I notice you use the AI theta which is a new one that I haven’t reviewed any RU-vid content yet! Thanks in advance and keep up the great work and channel 😀👍🏻
@@DPCTechnology thanks for the quick reply it’s outside with a porch over door. Plate detection would be good but the door faces the side of passing cars! So unless I positioned in a way it could pickup the front or rear may or may not work!?
THETA, the most confusing product line UBNT have produced yet. Naming and identification is a total shit-show. I have not pushed them for the fact they all look same and have confusing specs and standards. Even UBNT can't get the details correct. Resolutions, image senor pixel count, angles and useable pixel count on playback.
@@bentheguru4986 I agree the messaging/branding has not been good. But I will say the AI thera pro tele is an incredible camera, it has the best AI detection rate for me. And the 360s are really good too. The hub and USB cable is a little worrisome from a maintenance standpoint but I think the product definitely has its place.
it is funny because you did an entire video for comparing the cameras, and you never showed us all the cameras together so that we can actually compare them ourselves. like we want to see all of them next to each other. i don't think i missed that shot
I have a customer who wants to have the live picture of one of his unifi protect cameras combined with some local advertising informations on a big TV screen (digital signage). - First i found the "Unifi Viewport", but this device can only show protect cameras, no still images what i need. - And then there is this Unifi Display Cast, which can only handle media, but no protect camera live view. It's ridiculous. - If unifi let me drop in some dummy camera views/still images which i can arrange in a view around the one real camera that would be also a solution to use "Viewport" for that purpose.
There arre some upcoming software updates to the Cast line. Not sure if they will do what you want (i dont know what they are) but i would keep my eyes out there...
This is great and a fair price finally, but, one problem, anyone can now yank that out and put power to the strike plate with something like a battery and they’re in.. So, good for convenience, security, not so much.
@@DPCTechnology that would make a break in obvious, compared to no trace whatsoever. I do like it, and the simplicity and price though, have 4 in my cart now, soon as I manage to catch the Display Cast in stock. I use the notification thing from Crosstalk Solutions, but still can’t get it in time, they sell out quick.
Very helpful indeed, I've just purchased a NVR that came with a G4 bullet, but I think that may not even get opened. I already have a G4 bullet that I was going to replace with the G5 turret and move the G4 bullet to another area, but tbh I may just bite the bullet for a G5 Pro. It's a home setup, but I want a good image for the driveway etc. The field of vision is certainly interesting too and the bullet range would suit the driveway area better by the looks of things. Are the mounting for the bullet Vs the bullet pro the same?
@@DPCTechnology thank you 👍👌 In the first instance I’d prob reuse the G4 and then swap for a pro, hence hoping mount same. Will got a G5 flex for the back of the garage to cover people entering. I’m based in the UK, so not a large property.
So another Unifi PTZ without patrol functionality? What do we have to do to get that?!?!? This would be PERFECT for the back corners of my barns, if it had patrol functionality.
I was thinking to use this for a house side gate, noting that it's IP rated, unlike the lite, and comes with a inbuilt hub unlike the g2 reader. Then a g2 reader pro for the front door, and a g2 reader for the back door to both run off the same hub. I'm trying to think of an elegant solution to not need 2 of these on the gate (one on each side)?
Just tried to install one of these today, we used the slim plate and for some reason, we cant get it to latch in place. even by hand with the bracket just resting on the back of it!
@@brandonreidy6989 if someone wants to rip it off the wall they could, but they could kick the door down too.. it alarms when tampered with and fails to locked..
@@DPCTechnology agreed. More curious if that was part of the design or not. A big difference between a curious person vs. Someone determined to break in. If someone can just grab it and rip the holding tabs off vs someone having the proper tools to remove it with intention. Also says something about the build quality as well.
Fantastic video; What electric Striker you are using or prefer. It will be interesting to hear base on your expertise which strikers (brand) work best and why same with Cables and wires ...
@@user-lq3ji9kb7z I've used a bunch, this time I just used the UniFi one, it was fairly priced and worked.like a champ.. others were just high rated Amazon strikes or mag locks..
@@DPCTechnology I mean that I think it would be cleaner to mount the ultra on the wall without the plate. The plate is larger than the ultra and doesn't look as clean. I'm wondering if the plate is optional?
As I have stated in previous videos, yours are some of the best on RU-vid. My only comment on this product would be it would be perfect if there was a keypad on this too. I could see this being used at Air BnB's as well as most of the entry doors on my house.
I greatly appreciate the real-life install videos. It shows the common issues you run into and how you overcame them which is honestly helpful for most of us DIY-ers out here! It's often frustrating to watch a "perfect install" video or a "let's just set this up on a table for a demo" video and it looks all super easy and then you go to do it and end up spending 3 days and 4 trips to Home Depot. Also, one question I couldn't readily find an answer to: What is the maximum distance for running the low volt wires from the Access Ultra (or the Access Hub) to the actual lock? Thanks again for all the great videos!
Great video! Your Protect videos have helped me tremendously and these Access videos are giving me the confidence to try what has been a daunting and complex endeavor until now.
You lost me. "I don't want a high end build" then immediately go to 64 gb Ram, 12 core CPU, riser care with dual Gen 4 1 TB NVME drive and load up with 15 Exos 18 TB drives. Followed by " I try a bunch of things and realize I am doing a bunch of things that are stupid and start all over again"..... I plan to comment on your second video in more detail howerver I am going to ask you if you ever read about the difference of cold vs hot storage? Using quick internet tool it says you will have 150 Tb of Raid Z2 storage. Are you REALLY going to use 150 Tb of storage every single day at home with you and your wife? 150 Tb?
I shoot a ton of video, all of these are shot in 4k SLogg 4:2:2. a typical video is 30-50 gigs. I am a photographer as well and with 60meg sensors you chew up space. the Airshow is 4 days and I took 17000 photos fillng 653Gb.. I certainly could curate that better but thats what big frives are for! That doesnt even start to cover my plex library as well.. It's true, total overkill but I also run a tech company and love to test stuff.. and PS., I have 4 other large(ish) NAS on my home networks so yeah ur probably right for alling me out......
@@DPCTechnology Not trying to be cross with you. I am somewhat in the same camp as you and even looked at creating the exact build so the video is very intriguing. There is a lot to unpack but this is not the forum for it. You are welcome to email me. I think I poorly executed trying to get you to see though a different lens. Instead of a 1-5 year plan, I was looking to stretch you to a 15-20 year plan. Most people use the break fix model with their irreplaceable data instead of cycling out the out of warranty drives with fresh ones, in your case 5 years. I cycle them out them sell them to recoup part of the cost. Your use case open one up for a higher risk of a big hit. Large files = easily corruptible. Large quantities of files = heavy drive use for indexing, scanning, scrubbing and a complex file structure = large quantities of I/O. When an 18 Tb drive dies it is going to take longer to rebuild the RAID, statistically during that rebuild another drive will fail. The more work the drives do the less life they will have. In addition unlike a 4 Tb drive when you lose an 18 Tb drive that is a massive about of precious data to loose. I doubt this is any revelation to you. Now add in unforeseen issues like ransomware/encryption virus or like when Synology released a new OS version that busted the read-write cache and people lost their entire storage pool, a fire, flood, power surge/static discharge, again a lot to lose. To solve that issue you should have a 3-2-1 backup solution = 3 * 15 drives = 45 drives * $330 = $14,850 which in 5 years has to be replace to avoid risk. $14,850 * 4 replacements to get you to 20 years = $59,400. Did that get your attention, it gets mine? This doesn't factor in exponential growth you have with your data that is just to maintain the current level. This is the lens I am trying to solve for myself and I see it duplicated here. It brings me back to cold vs hot storage. HHD, SSD, NVME all have a lifespan, bit rot, RAID Write Hole, RAID card requires a battery (super capacitor), they break and require being used to retain the data. What is left? Cloud storage which is a zero option as once out of your hands so you have zero control over it. Next up is 100 GB M-Disc or 18 TB native 45 TB compressed LTO backups. Those solutions will last 20 years plus, avoid virus attacks, can be encrypted, don’t require power, can be stored off site (like safety deposit box), easily organized, scalable, less expensive, proven reliability as started in 1950. Negatives, slow and inconvenient. Yes, I read your response. Homework, watch both videos by Wendell “RAID is dead” then Linus “All of our data is GONE!” I have your answer, all good. New question, do you think Linus would rather have had a slow, inconvenient LTO tape on the shelf or battle it out trying to get a RAID to rebuild as seen in the video? That is my lens and a place I want to avoid. For myself at this moment I have separate ZFS based storage devices that are never on my network meaning access to the internet or my infected PC. They are connected with link aggregation on dual 40 GbE Mellanox card using QSFP+ cables. They are kept off however I turn them on every 5-6 months to a RAID scrub and sync with each other then back to cold storage. I keep my live files on a MS server that is backed up at 8 am and 8 pm each day on a separate drive which is then synced with a QNAP TR-004 RAID external backup. The server is periodically backed up to the ZFS systems as well. My solution doesn’t apply with yours and it is temporary. I could put it all on a 16 bay Xeon QNAP, a 24 core Xeon dual CPU server, HL-15, Unraid server or buy a used LTO drive on eBay which gives me at a minimum my data on a shelf and at the bank. IDK. Waiting to see your final solution. Perhaps someone will make a recommendation.
one above the other that makes no sense if its a plz on a corner. Rule of thumb is one on one corner and another across from it on the other corner and really one on each corner they all cover each other with no blind spots giving 360 view around a house etc
hi, nice video. I use the unifi protect, but can you say where i put my email to it send notification to me? i know that in alerts i can activate what kind od alert I want, but where I put my email?
