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The cameras are very overpriced for features and quality if you read ipcamtalk. Granted, they recommend mostly stuff that is Dahua/hikvision, so maybe there is a premium to be paid for something that doesn’t report what you had for supper and the size of your Amazon packages to the Chinese government.

A couple things here... I don't have too much problem with chinese cameras, it's easy enough to deny them access to the internet as long as you use trusted software to record. And I've seen complaints about ubnt image quality, but I have access to a couple G3 cam streams and they look great to me in both day and night even though they're only 1080p. It's like the chinese cams pack in the pixels without regard to any other factors that affect image quality like optics, white balance, etc. Of course I've mostly dealt with the lower end chinese ones in the sub $100 range, but if you go much higher than that then you're in the G3 price range. And I know I don't have the best eye for picture quality, but from the limited experience I have I'm not disappointed with the ubnt gear at the price.

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But more importantly, I don’t like their requirement for a cloud controller g2 or UDM-pro. They limit the hardware so heavily and still have a poorly-functioning, overpriced system that isn’t totally reliable or particularly friendly to any outside hardware. Then they sort of have a history of abandoning what doesn’t work/sell, leading me to sit them out until it’s more caught on and ironed out.

Yeah that's what people are pissed about, the old Unifi Video line had free software that you could run on your own hardware, but the replacement Protect software will only run on their hardware. They're taking the Apple approach, but not pulling it off. However I believe the cams can be put in rtsp mode for use with 3rd party software, but for me the main selling point is the slick software for people who just want something that's easy to use. If it worked right, that is.

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I love the company. I will buy and recommend their networking stuff left and right. But requiring crappier hardware than I have (i5 8500 in a desktop that is always on instead of whatever is in a cloud key or UDM) should at least come with a pretty high floor before I will overlook the low ceiling, and the Protect line isn’t there yet.

Right there with you, I think.

I'd still like to hear from someone who uses it regularly, though. I find it hard to believe that these show-stopper problems could be so widespread.