Folks - I need help.

I bought the UDR7 router during the Black Friday sale just to see what the hype was about and since then I’ve already placed multiple orders for hundreds of dollars of equipment. As we speak I have a cart full of over a thousand dollars more equipment that I’m on the cusp of submitting and and there is no end in sight.

If there is anyone out there who can talk me out of this rabbit hole I fear this may be the last chance for salvation

My name is ccunning and I’m a Unifi-holic…

  • ccunning@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I will admit I gave Protect an unfair advantage as it’s the only fully first party solution I tried (unless you count Apple HomeKit Secure Video?)

    Protect with 3rd party cameras is indeed lacking. But it works like magic with first party cameras.

    The only other solution I’ve tried was QNAP QVR Pro with third party cameras and it was awful

    Sounds like you’re having better luck with HKSV than I did. For me that is where I started and quickly bailed on it despite the unlimited cloud storage. It just did a terrible job at recording video. It would always end the recording with the detected subject still in the frame. It was incredibly frustrating.

    • phucyall@lemmy.caEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      HKSV has been decent, but the protocol relies on cameras doing motion detection and telling HKSV when events happen that need to be recorded. So it works pretty good with good cameras.

      That said it still only records clips of events. With Aqara G5 Pro I tell the cameras to also write video to NAS so that’s how I get continuous recording in addition to what HKSV offers

      • ccunning@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        It’s been a year or two since I was looking into it and I didn’t have a NAS at the time, but another one of the issues I had was the tiny selection of cameras available. I tested some Aqara G2H Pros and the Logitech Circle View. The Aqaras I added local storage to and at least could get continuous recording, but event seeking is pretty terrible. The circle view was, despite very well built hardware, essentially useless. Keeping it connected to the network was basically impossible

        I’m curious how writing to the NAS works. Is it just a bunch of files dumped to a network share or is there some sort of timeline viewing software available? Are they giant continuous files? Individual files for events? Without knowing the details it seems like it would be a nightmare to navigate and actually find useful information.