Ubiquity/Unifi integration( was Re: SNMP integration?)

[Scot]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:58:52 +0000, (null) (null) wrote:
> 
> I am a huge fan of the edgerouter - rock solid. I am at 482 days 
> uptime on it (and that last reboot was a power failure). Static and 
> dynamic addresses, port mapping, VPN, etc never an issue. Separate 
> switch and 3 UNIFI APs. Can be a pain to setup, not for the faint of 
> heart, but rock solid when it is working. No experience with the 
> newer stuff though. 

Just my $.02, but my experience with the newer Unifi stuff is mostly 
bad. I had a Unifi Dream Machine Pro die at 13 months, one month out of 
warranty. Couldn't be repaired at any price so $400 down the drain. 
That took out the security gateway, security cameras (all Unifi), and 
the main router for the network. That's a lot of eggs in one basket. 

To diversify, I replaced the UDMP with a Unifi CloudKey Gen2 Plus, 
which handles the network control and security camera functions. The 
base routing is handled by a Starlink router, not the most feature rich 
device but it works. I replaced the security gateway with a used Unifi 
Security Gateway Pro 4, but it slowed the network to a crawl and I 
haven't been able go figure out why. Maybe it's defective. The CloudKey 
couldn't keep up with the thirteen network cams, so it was replaced by 
a Unifi Network Video Recorder ($500). It worked great for three 
months, and I need to RMA it back to Ubiquiti. Meantime, I've dropped a 
few cameras and I'm getting by with the CloudKey. I've had a few camera 
failures as well, again unrepairable. 

At first, the Unifi stuff was great, but after my experience with next 
to nothing support and the unreliable equipment, I can't recommend it.


Scot
Yankee Hill, California