I was running Blue Iris, but I've replaced it with a Unifi Protect NVR and G4 bullet cameras. Actually, I've replaced my entire home network of Cisco Catalyst switches and a Cisco ASA firewall with Unifi to save money on electricity, lower fan noise and lower heat generation. It has worked out well.
@@TechnoTim I started with a drive in my UDMPro and the only difference is that I have to access the NVR separately instead of within the UDMPRo interface. I have four 4 TB mechanical drives in the NVR. I haven't experienced any problems with scrubbing and the "Smart" features work very well. They need to lower the price of their G4 cameras because there are much better cameras in the market at a lower price. It would also be nice if they added a reasonably priced G4 PTZ camera.
15:38 The RTSP setting allows you to grab the video feed via rtsp or srtsp to software or a device that can receive rtsp. For example you can rtsp feed a VLC application on a windows machine to see raw video from that camera. I have VLC shortcuts that point to rtsp feeds on my cameras.. If I want to quickly see what is on a camera I just start that shortcut on my desktop. It even feeds audio from the camera. This works in conjunction with the protect software.
That plug at 23:50 actually IS related to your camera security. If you're traveling, on holiday, away from the home and your Internet goes down, your cameras might still be recording, but you won't get alerts, because your UDMP + Protect can't send alerts back out so you can call local police and have them check your house or fire department or other important services. You could be on vacation for a week, while your house is broken into or under some emergency before you even know about it. So yes, very much important and tied to security. There's another option: Dual WAN failover, and use a GSM modem/router plugged into your second WAN port. Unifi makes a device that ties to your local mobile carrier's towers (but is quite expensive). You could also plug in your own, and have it fail over to that device when your primary WAN connection goes down. With either of these, you won't lose the ability to manage your Protect/security cameras, nor get alerts when something important crosses their lenses.
Using Unifi Video, now protect, for over 5 years. Last gig (k-12) deployed 70 cam 2 site setup, no issues in the slightest. At home, just updated from G3 flex/bullets to G4 domes/bullets, loving the new motion capture. They live up to the North Dakota winter no problem.
@@TechnoTim The G4 bullet is a huge increase over the G3 bullet, and has a wider field of view vs the G3 flex. However, it's IR is a bit weaker for dim lighting. All in all, a good upgrade. The G4 Pro (which I received for free from Ubnt) is a fantastic piece of kit. Good all around, but at that price I have a hard time recommending it to anyone that isn't full Unifi already. An acti or Axis would do better at dollar for dollar. The G4 PTZ I have not had a chance to play with, but after dealing with Axis PTZ's for years, I worry for it's longevity due to some of the manufacturing choices I see in it. I've used pretty much the whole stack of Ubiquiti gear, from their switches to their ptp wireless, Unifi wireless deployments, even their old phone system. You name it.
Love your channel. Just getting into this world somewhat seriously and your delivery is nearly the best overall. Not a lot of fluff, background music is not overpowering or annoying, you explain very clearly without an annoying childish gimmick or trying to be funny or overly clever. You deserve many more subs, and please don't change your formula or get too clickbaity or cringy [ as an ex-millionaire ] for example.
I have a bunch of D-Link cams im replacing. Started with a 3 pack of the G4 Pros. They are amazing but expensive. I'm a big quality of vidoe guy so its nice to see the smaller cameras quality in your video. I do have a 8Tb 7200 hard drive with 3 G4 pros always recording and have no issues with scrubbing.
I was expecting a more "open source/self hosted/non-propietary" solution but I suppose the purpose of this video was not that, right? I love UniFi products but I was expecting a different thing in this channel! Maybe a future video for that... Regarding IP cameras I would like to know more about the use of VLANs.
@@TechnoTim I am using MotionEye with some cheap IP Cameras connect through RTSP and a couple of WiFi ESP32 Cams. Currently my doubts are if I am flooding my LAN with all this traffic all the time or if I only waste bandwidth when they are being seen by me on Home Assistant. I don't know if a VLAN help on that? How could I check that using Wireshark? Here a couple of ideas for a future video! Thanks and keep the good work!!!
Thanks for the video, you're killing it. A few ideas for some future videos. Bitwarden (password manager) container build in Rancher Headless Kodi w/ Database (sync other kodi clients with this database) Some type of music server like "koel" or "navidrome" or if you can find a better option. Evernote replacements like "paperwork" or "bookstack" Google Photos replacement like "Ownphotos". ProtonMail Keep up the good work man.
@@TechnoTim thank you for the amazing content. I always check if you made a video about before implementing something. You make such good content I even pointed one of my IT teacher to your content when he had like 2h to implement traefik.
I've got a solitary G3 Flex amongst my various cameras as the form factor and partially recessed ceiling mount was perfect for what I needed. I just struggle with the price of the better specified G4 cameras in comparison to other manufacturers, certainly here in the UK. There are much better quality options out there with nice features like 4K, in-camera AI and colour night vision at a quarter of the price. Granted, none of them have as nice a UI and complete ecosystem as a whole Ubiquiti setup. The one thing Ubiquiti does better than everyone else is the integrated PoE port in the base of the cameras. That really helps with installation when compared to the stupid captive fly leads for power/video/PoE that all of the opposition seem to use and which often means a nasty additional junction box to hide them in.
Good call on no pig tails! I despise those and all my old poe cameras had them. How quickly I forget. Maybe it’s because it should have always been this way.
Think it would be cool to also present your previous solution, like what software you're using, how you're connecting the various typs of webcam. I recently helped friend setup some cameras from different manufacturers for example. And it would be cool if there was a solution to have them all in the same panel/UI. You mentioned your old setup is also mixed with various cams.
How did it work out? Is it able to show an event "timeline" of recorded footage, allowing one to quickly move around the footage, from event to event? (without having saved each event as separate clips)
Great video!!! You’re the first video that I’ve seen that goes through the alerts screen. I’ve been wondering that type of alerts you could set up. I’m getting a UDM Pro soon and going all Unifi Protect and this video helped so much. I would love to see an in depth video of the app. I would like to know if it’s as easy to scrub through the footage as the Nest cams.
Run similar system with UniFi cameras, networking etc. Am also looking to install the UniFi Access gear to see if its any good. Not too worried about using proprietary gear because realistically you will face similar problems no matter what you are installing. Because UniFi gear is PoE it should be easy enough to replace it later on down the track with a competitor should I not want to use their equipment anymore. In relation to the UDM and UDMPro security features I am not entirely convinced that these are sufficient for enterprise use and don't think I would ever recommend them for serious security setups, so typically run a suitable enterprise firewall in front of the gear and leave the UDM to protect inter-VLAN. Also since the UniFi Access gear is powered by the PoE (that includes the door locks) you can put a suitably sized UPS on the switch to prevent it from losing charge to the doors and unlocking (or just install fail-locked strikes on the doors). Also in relation to the WiFi AP's they are hit and miss sometimes, always dependant on the drivers. Would suggest not automatically upgrading drivers as the IoT devices sometimes lose WiFi connection and can't connect back again (you need to swap them onto a different SSID for some reason).
@@TechnoTim I had the hardware for some time, but i finally mount it all up, atm i have 1 erx-sfp, 1 erx and 1 tp link poe for the cams, 1u supermicro server running proxmox and rpi 3b+, need to get a proper switch but some day :)
I like Ubiquiti hardware, but I don't use their cloud features for the exact reason as to what happened a few days ago with Ubiquiti's apparent data leak
Awesome video, I'm actually starting slow into the unifi ecosystem, we currently have amplifi which is also ubiquiti, but I want to slowly switch to unifi sometime soon. I'm starting out with a couple unifi switch flex minis and hopefully will grow from there
@@TechnoTim Thanks, Amplifi isn't that great at least for what I'd like to use my network for, I think its decent for a quick and easy setup of a network for average users. Its very basic and there isn't much functionality to it, it actually seems to. have less functionality than cheaper ISP routers but for most users it should be fine
Hay i started with a flex now i have a udm pro, us 16 150 watt poe switch, ap pro , and the flex, soon I’m getting some camera. I’m loving it my home network never felt so fast and smooth.
Interesting product choice, especially that shortly after they got hacked and customer data seem to have leaked. I guess the choice has been made prior to the news. Generally I don't think their products are bad, quite the opposite.
Let's hope this is an isolated incident, and yes I made this choice before the breach. My old solution was cameras by many different manufacturers, some with firmware that was 5+ years old. I decided that I'd rather have something that gets regular updates.
I use g3 flex, and g1 doorbell, with the USG and 16 port poe switch. I have home assistant running as a vm with proxmox and deepstack running within home assistant using portainer. I do plan on moving deepstack ai to its own VM at some point
I think this is one of the few videos that made the unifi bug bite me... smh. lol It all started with a single USW-FLEX-MINI.. then another.. then a USG.. now on the way a G3 Instant Camera & Cloud Key+ (UCK-G2-PLUS) and a USW 16 POE switch.. oh yeah and a UAC-AP-LITE. TAKE ALL MY MONEY!! lolllll
I hope your Unifi systems work well. I was thinking of doing the same thing that you have done. UDM pro, switch, ap's, G3 flex, I just haven't made the leap yet.
Hey Tim, the Flex's also will run on passive 24V which is good for those upgrading from older G3 bullets that were not true PoE. The SmartPower is just like UBNT's LTE offering, only of use to US customers only, crap for rest of world.
Hey Tim, in one of your shows you mentioned you do Software Development for your day job. Do you have any future shows to cover what you do in this space? Really enjoy your content.
I love my UDM Pro, I will be pulling the trigger like you on Protect soon, I’ve been using Synology for that but their licenses are a pain to acquire and just not scalable for me...
@@TechnoTim I cant remember the time when the tm report any scans. I think it was before update from 1.6.x to 1.9.x. Do you got an idea how to fix this?
Sorry if I missed this in another comment or if you said it. But I am in the midst of setting up my home very similar to this. Waiting on some camera's to come in. Did you have to make any firewalls rules for the 'Security Camera VLAN' or did the UDM automatically connect to everything? I know its a slim chance of somebody plugging into the cameras outside the house, but I'd really like to have everything segregated.
NP! Congrats! I didn’t have to create any firewall rules other than the ones I’ve had to keep VLANs segmented. I think UniFi can discovery any UniFi product anywhere, probably for ease of use and a fail safe too.
Hi Tim, Love your stuff. It helped me commit to Proxmox, among other things. Less so with Rancher though. 😁 Would you be inclined to make a video on the unifi firewall? I moved to a UDMP and a couple of AC Pros in December, and have been somewhat confused by the firewall finer intricacies. I've read the doco, but it seems like all the rules of ever need to set up (manage boundaries between trusted devices, homelab, and IoT networks) go in LAN IN. I'd love for someone to show valid use cases for the rest.
What is their integration with third party software? Something I like about my cameras is that I'm able to take screenshot from home assistant on different events and send them to me
@@TechnoTim saw the entire video, but those are just alerts using their own methods. I use RTS (I think it spells like that) to access my cameras from hassio and do whatever I want with the images. I guess this cameras are at least compatible with that
I considered quite a bit and have done my own home security with lots of different cameras, that's part of the problem, that I have cameras from 5 manufacturers where they never update firmware.
I believe that you shouldn’t be using a VLAN for the cameras as the protect software is running on the main VLAN all the data from the cameras would’ve been routed by the UDM and while the UDM is powerful enough it’s a waste of energy, could you confirm that?
Good call, I didn't think about that. I have a camera VLAN already (for my old PoE cameras). It's hard to gauge what the incremental load of just turning on Protect is vs. using Protect with cameras on a different VLAN. Once I decommission my old PoE cameras I will check it out although I still like them on their own VLAN so that 1) nothing can communicate with them and 2) they don't have direct access to the internet. For those reasons I may keep them there even if it costs some more cycles... well that is unless I start to get CPU bound.
It is really interesting, at first I was tempted to go like this with a setup Home Assistant / Compatibles camera, but that add a nice other option. Is everything local and owned by you? Or is there any system that require an Unify account or some online / cloud thing?
@@TechnoTim That's great! They are not really cheap, but I may look into it in the futur and after some saving, it look like a great option without much configuration needed in the end!
I truly love ubiquiti but the lack of logs make me feel bad :/ I'm interested in their camera system but I can't stop thinking then their device need more function sometime. Don't get me wrong, I love my udm but I want to have logs and filter on the logs...
@@TechnoTim yes I'm thinking to do a logstash/kibana combo or a splunk just for that but this will required to me some work for something then I consider as a native thing to be :/ :)
@@TechnoTim Here is the warranty information for the linked ssd in the description. Chances are, with motion events, it will be may be difficult to write 1.2 petabytes to wear out the cells. However, that's subject to how your recording settings are set and how many cameras you have. It's an environment factor. * Warrantied TBW for 860 EVO: 150 TBW for 250 GB model, 300 TBW for 500 GB model, 600 TBW for 1 TB model, 1,200 TBW for 2 TB model and 2,400 TBW for 4 TB model. * 5-years or TBW, whichever comes first.
@@GrishTech thanks! I’ll always roll the dice on SSDs. We roll the dice on mechanical too. I have very few, if any, hard drives from 5 years ago. Most likely they will be replaced with something else by year 4
You should probably say in the beginning, wether you are sponsored or received some of the products from the manufacturer when you are doing videos about hardware or stuff one need to pay for. Good video though. Curious if propriatary is the best solution here.
@@TechnoTim I've got two g3 flex cameras and two ac-lite APs, and I'm on the fence over whether or not to get a CK G2+. Ubiquiti abandoning Unifi Video kind of sucked. At the minimum I just need motion detection, object detection would be nice. I need to look at open source solutions, then maybe Blue Iris, then maybe a CK G2+.
@8:19 If I see my "WiFi Traffic Distribution" to be anything else than green and if my "average device experience score" is less than 97%, I start looking for ways to suicide. HOW CAN YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD WITH AVERAGE DEVICE EXPERIENCE AT 94%????? Just teach me how!
Which home security system do you use at home? 🐶 is an acceptable answer.
🐶 🐶 Not sure if I would go the cloud option with security cameras exposed to another company.
I was running Blue Iris, but I've replaced it with a Unifi Protect NVR and G4 bullet cameras. Actually, I've replaced my entire home network of Cisco Catalyst switches and a Cisco ASA firewall with Unifi to save money on electricity, lower fan noise and lower heat generation. It has worked out well.
Nice! How do you like the NVR? Agreed on power, UniFi products sip power vs others!
@@TechnoTim I started with a drive in my UDMPro and the only difference is that I have to access the NVR separately instead of within the UDMPRo interface. I have four 4 TB mechanical drives in the NVR. I haven't experienced any problems with scrubbing and the "Smart" features work very well. They need to lower the price of their G4 cameras because there are much better cameras in the market at a lower price. It would also be nice if they added a reasonably priced G4 PTZ camera.
@@rayk32 nice! If I ever go bigger I will check it out. I’ve been watching, hence why I included it in the video!
15:38 The RTSP setting allows you to grab the video feed via rtsp or srtsp to software or a device that can receive rtsp. For example you can rtsp feed a VLC application on a windows machine to see raw video from that camera. I have VLC shortcuts that point to rtsp feeds on my cameras.. If I want to quickly see what is on a camera I just start that shortcut on my desktop. It even feeds audio from the camera. This works in conjunction with the protect software.
That plug at 23:50 actually IS related to your camera security. If you're traveling, on holiday, away from the home and your Internet goes down, your cameras might still be recording, but you won't get alerts, because your UDMP + Protect can't send alerts back out so you can call local police and have them check your house or fire department or other important services.
You could be on vacation for a week, while your house is broken into or under some emergency before you even know about it. So yes, very much important and tied to security.
There's another option: Dual WAN failover, and use a GSM modem/router plugged into your second WAN port. Unifi makes a device that ties to your local mobile carrier's towers (but is quite expensive). You could also plug in your own, and have it fail over to that device when your primary WAN connection goes down.
With either of these, you won't lose the ability to manage your Protect/security cameras, nor get alerts when something important crosses their lenses.
Using Unifi Video, now protect, for over 5 years. Last gig (k-12) deployed 70 cam 2 site setup, no issues in the slightest. At home, just updated from G3 flex/bullets to G4 domes/bullets, loving the new motion capture.
They live up to the North Dakota winter no problem.
Good to know! How do you like the G4 products? Worth it?
@@TechnoTim The G4 bullet is a huge increase over the G3 bullet, and has a wider field of view vs the G3 flex. However, it's IR is a bit weaker for dim lighting. All in all, a good upgrade.
The G4 Pro (which I received for free from Ubnt) is a fantastic piece of kit. Good all around, but at that price I have a hard time recommending it to anyone that isn't full Unifi already. An acti or Axis would do better at dollar for dollar.
The G4 PTZ I have not had a chance to play with, but after dealing with Axis PTZ's for years, I worry for it's longevity due to some of the manufacturing choices I see in it.
I've used pretty much the whole stack of Ubiquiti gear, from their switches to their ptp wireless, Unifi wireless deployments, even their old phone system. You name it.
Love your channel. Just getting into this world somewhat seriously and your delivery is nearly the best overall. Not a lot of fluff, background music is not overpowering or annoying, you explain very clearly without an annoying childish gimmick or trying to be funny or overly clever.
You deserve many more subs, and please don't change your formula or get too clickbaity or cringy [ as an ex-millionaire ] for example.
Thank you so much!
this sort of felt like a unifi-ad :D
(I also run unifi :P )
Haha! I am happy with their products 😀. Will see how I can do things differently in the future!
Just want to say that I love your channel and followed many of your tips! Still getting use to seeing you my TH-cam feed! Keep up the awesome work!
Awesome! Thank you! How are you Jack!!!! Good to see you man! Hope all is well!
It’s like ur reading my mind man. Just thinking about going for unifi protect. Thank you so much! Keep up to good work!
Let me know how it works out! Thank you!
I have a bunch of D-Link cams im replacing. Started with a 3 pack of the G4 Pros. They are amazing but expensive. I'm a big quality of vidoe guy so its nice to see the smaller cameras quality in your video. I do have a 8Tb 7200 hard drive with 3 G4 pros always recording and have no issues with scrubbing.
Nice! Thanks for the tip on scrubbing and always recording on a mechanical drive! I will have to give that a shot!
Very good video Tim! Thanks for going through the whole process from unboxing to setup.
Thanks for the feedback on the video!
I was expecting a more "open source/self hosted/non-propietary" solution but I suppose the purpose of this video was not that, right?
I love UniFi products but I was expecting a different thing in this channel!
Maybe a future video for that...
Regarding IP cameras I would like to know more about the use of VLANs.
Sorry to disappoint but not all my solutions are open source!
I was using Blue Iris before this which is closed source and Windows only.
@@TechnoTim I am using MotionEye with some cheap IP Cameras connect through RTSP and a couple of WiFi ESP32 Cams.
Currently my doubts are if I am flooding my LAN with all this traffic all the time or if I only waste bandwidth when they are being seen by me on Home Assistant.
I don't know if a VLAN help on that?
How could I check that using Wireshark?
Here a couple of ideas for a future video!
Thanks and keep the good work!!!
Let me know if you find this 🦄
Thanks for the video, you're killing it.
A few ideas for some future videos.
Bitwarden (password manager) container build in Rancher
Headless Kodi w/ Database (sync other kodi clients with this database)
Some type of music server like "koel" or "navidrome" or if you can find a better option.
Evernote replacements like "paperwork" or "bookstack"
Google Photos replacement like "Ownphotos".
ProtonMail
Keep up the good work man.
Thank you! Noted!
I'm a simple man, I see Technotim, I press like
thank you!
@@TechnoTim thank you for the amazing content. I always check if you made a video about before implementing something. You make such good content I even pointed one of my IT teacher to your content when he had like 2h to implement traefik.
I've got a solitary G3 Flex amongst my various cameras as the form factor and partially recessed ceiling mount was perfect for what I needed. I just struggle with the price of the better specified G4 cameras in comparison to other manufacturers, certainly here in the UK. There are much better quality options out there with nice features like 4K, in-camera AI and colour night vision at a quarter of the price. Granted, none of them have as nice a UI and complete ecosystem as a whole Ubiquiti setup. The one thing Ubiquiti does better than everyone else is the integrated PoE port in the base of the cameras. That really helps with installation when compared to the stupid captive fly leads for power/video/PoE that all of the opposition seem to use and which often means a nasty additional junction box to hide them in.
Good call on no pig tails! I despise those and all my old poe cameras had them. How quickly I forget. Maybe it’s because it should have always been this way.
Think it would be cool to also present your previous solution, like what software you're using, how you're connecting the various typs of webcam. I recently helped friend setup some cameras from different manufacturers for example. And it would be cool if there was a solution to have them all in the same panel/UI. You mentioned your old setup is also mixed with various cams.
Fantastic review. Just going down the same path myself, so the overview was brilliant, really enjoyed it!
Thank you!
bro you deserve a million subs. great content
How did it work out? Is it able to show an event "timeline" of recorded footage, allowing one to quickly move around the footage, from event to event? (without having saved each event as separate clips)
Great video!!! You’re the first video that I’ve seen that goes through the alerts screen. I’ve been wondering that type of alerts you could set up. I’m getting a UDM Pro soon and going all Unifi Protect and this video helped so much.
I would love to see an in depth video of the app.
I would like to know if it’s as easy to scrub through the footage as the Nest cams.
Thanks! It's really awesome. You can scrub through the timeline really fast! Thank you!
Run similar system with UniFi cameras, networking etc. Am also looking to install the UniFi Access gear to see if its any good. Not too worried about using proprietary gear because realistically you will face similar problems no matter what you are installing. Because UniFi gear is PoE it should be easy enough to replace it later on down the track with a competitor should I not want to use their equipment anymore.
In relation to the UDM and UDMPro security features I am not entirely convinced that these are sufficient for enterprise use and don't think I would ever recommend them for serious security setups, so typically run a suitable enterprise firewall in front of the gear and leave the UDM to protect inter-VLAN. Also since the UniFi Access gear is powered by the PoE (that includes the door locks) you can put a suitably sized UPS on the switch to prevent it from losing charge to the doors and unlocking (or just install fail-locked strikes on the doors).
Also in relation to the WiFi AP's they are hit and miss sometimes, always dependant on the drivers. Would suggest not automatically upgrading drivers as the IoT devices sometimes lose WiFi connection and can't connect back again (you need to swap them onto a different SSID for some reason).
Wow! Thanks for the insight!
Great video keep it on brother, today i finally put my rack together and installed 2 reolink refurb cams
Thank you! Let me know how your rack and reolink goes!
@@TechnoTim I had the hardware for some time, but i finally mount it all up, atm i have 1 erx-sfp, 1 erx and 1 tp link poe for the cams, 1u supermicro server running proxmox and rpi 3b+, need to get a proper switch but some day :)
I like Ubiquiti hardware, but I don't use their cloud features for the exact reason as to what happened a few days ago with Ubiquiti's apparent data leak
It is unfortunate for sure. Let's hope this is an isolated incident!
Awesome video, I'm actually starting slow into the unifi ecosystem, we currently have amplifi which is also ubiquiti, but I want to slowly switch to unifi sometime soon. I'm starting out with a couple unifi switch flex minis and hopefully will grow from there
Nice! Not familiar with amplifi, how do you like it?
@@TechnoTim Thanks, Amplifi isn't that great at least for what I'd like to use my network for, I think its decent for a quick and easy setup of a network for average users. Its very basic and there isn't much functionality to it, it actually seems to. have less functionality than cheaper ISP routers but for most users it should be fine
Hay i started with a flex now i have a udm pro, us 16 150 watt poe switch, ap pro , and the flex, soon I’m getting some camera. I’m loving it my home network never felt so fast and smooth.
I need to learn more about Vlans. When you put a camera on its own VLAN can I view the cam locally on my pc, if my pc is on another home VLAN?
Yes, you certainly can! Check out my network upgrade video
Interesting product choice, especially that shortly after they got hacked and customer data seem to have leaked. I guess the choice has been made prior to the news. Generally I don't think their products are bad, quite the opposite.
Let's hope this is an isolated incident, and yes I made this choice before the breach. My old solution was cameras by many different manufacturers, some with firmware that was 5+ years old. I decided that I'd rather have something that gets regular updates.
Awesome content man. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!
I use unifi protect and home assistant with deepstack ai and it works great!
Oh nice! I will have to check that out!
Tell us more about your setup, please.
I use g3 flex, and g1 doorbell, with the USG and 16 port poe switch. I have home assistant running as a vm with proxmox and deepstack running within home assistant using portainer. I do plan on moving deepstack ai to its own VM at some point
i have 9 cameras on unifi protect arround the outside of my home and i like it so far
Nice!
I think this is one of the few videos that made the unifi bug bite me... smh. lol It all started with a single USW-FLEX-MINI.. then another.. then a USG.. now on the way a G3 Instant Camera
& Cloud Key+ (UCK-G2-PLUS) and a USW 16 POE switch.. oh yeah and a UAC-AP-LITE. TAKE ALL MY MONEY!! lolllll
🤑
I hope your Unifi systems work well. I was thinking of doing the same thing that you have done. UDM pro, switch, ap's, G3 flex, I just haven't made the leap yet.
Working great keeps getting better
Thanks a bazillion for the demo and info
Thanks for stopping in, watching, liking, and commenting!
amazing video tutorial i really appreciate it !!!
Glad you liked it!
Hey Tim, the Flex's also will run on passive 24V which is good for those upgrading from older G3 bullets that were not true PoE.
The SmartPower is just like UBNT's LTE offering, only of use to US customers only, crap for rest of world.
Thank you!
Can you set up a camera VLAN if you use UDM Pro? Heard you need the Unifi NVR to set up a separate camera VLAN
I run a camera VLAN just fine with UDM pro
What sweatshirt is that looks nice! Also great content! Getting ready to setup my security system.
Hey Tim, in one of your shows you mentioned you do Software Development for your day job. Do you have any future shows to cover what you do in this space? Really enjoy your content.
Next see if you could add unifi protect to home bridge.
You can, I already have!
Can you make a tutorial please. !!!
does the instant support data over the poe connection?
Good question, not sure. I never bought the adapter since these will be placed in areas I haven't pulled cabling.
Are you giving away or selling any of your old ubiquiti stuff?
The NVR is really worth it tbh
Totally should have gotten one. Maybe an upgrade in the future!
@@TechnoTim ye... You just saved me, if I didn't see that wireless camera in your video, I wouldn't have used ubuiqti. Thanks!
I love my UDM Pro, I will be pulling the trigger like you on Protect soon, I’ve been using Synology for that but their licenses are a pain to acquire and just not scalable for me...
Nice! Good luck!
Does your thread management show up any threads with IPS on? Since the last few updates there are no reports 🤔
They do. There were a few updates where they didn't (I think bad cert) but that was months ago. Been fine since.
@@TechnoTim I cant remember the time when the tm report any scans. I think it was before update from 1.6.x to 1.9.x. Do you got an idea how to fix this?
It’s my under standing that they are adding iPhone and Apple Watch to unifi access that would be cool.
That sounds awesome!
Hi,great video, what is the power usage for the G3 flex? :)
Thank you! They are all super low!
Sorry if I missed this in another comment or if you said it. But I am in the midst of setting up my home very similar to this. Waiting on some camera's to come in. Did you have to make any firewalls rules for the 'Security Camera VLAN' or did the UDM automatically connect to everything? I know its a slim chance of somebody plugging into the cameras outside the house, but I'd really like to have everything segregated.
NP! Congrats! I didn’t have to create any firewall rules other than the ones I’ve had to keep VLANs segmented. I think UniFi can discovery any UniFi product anywhere, probably for ease of use and a fail safe too.
@@TechnoTim awesome. Thank you! And thank you for the content. I’m a fairly new follower. So I got some catching up to do. Lol.
4:01 Those are some cool .af cameras there alright! 🤣
You should see 4:32 :)
@@TechnoTim 😱🤯
Hi Tim,
Love your stuff. It helped me commit to Proxmox, among other things. Less so with Rancher though. 😁
Would you be inclined to make a video on the unifi firewall?
I moved to a UDMP and a couple of AC Pros in December, and have been somewhat confused by the firewall finer intricacies. I've read the doco, but it seems like all the rules of ever need to set up (manage boundaries between trusted devices, homelab, and IoT networks) go in LAN IN. I'd love for someone to show valid use cases for the rest.
Check out it's my natural color. He has one of the best guides on setting up VLANs as well as the use cases for it.
@@TechnoTim Appreciated, I'll check him out.
Do i need a switch or anything In order to use the G3 Instant ? Please Help!
You do not, I mean it requires Unfi Protect.
@@TechnoTim app or a device?
Try MotionEye
What is their integration with third party software? Something I like about my cameras is that I'm able to take screenshot from home assistant on different events and send them to me
see the alerting section in this video
@@TechnoTim saw the entire video, but those are just alerts using their own methods. I use RTS (I think it spells like that) to access my cameras from hassio and do whatever I want with the images. I guess this cameras are at least compatible with that
How do you buy more than one of these? Other than making multiple logins ha
I think you'll just have to wait until they are more generally available. Hopefully soon!
How can you find out what they have for the future
Not sure, most companies don't talk about things until they are relased.
Did you consider different vendors mixed together?
Eg hikvision on prem with unifi protect on nvr?
Do you vpn in to view your streams?
I considered quite a bit and have done my own home security with lots of different cameras, that's part of the problem, that I have cameras from 5 manufacturers where they never update firmware.
@@TechnoTim ouch. That's a lot. I'm looking at mix of 2, 3 max
Do you have to have their NVR/UDMPro or can you use your own local network HD to store all video?
That’s in this video!
@@TechnoTim I watched it and couldn't determine if that was the case since you already had your own system including the UDMPro so I'm still confused.
No prob! You have to store your video in the UDM pro or NVR, you can't use network storage for this!
@@TechnoTim Thanks!
5:54 !banana for scale
Oof! Missed opportunity!
I believe that you shouldn’t be using a VLAN for the cameras as the protect software is running on the main VLAN all the data from the cameras would’ve been routed by the UDM and while the UDM is powerful enough it’s a waste of energy, could you confirm that?
Good call, I didn't think about that. I have a camera VLAN already (for my old PoE cameras). It's hard to gauge what the incremental load of just turning on Protect is vs. using Protect with cameras on a different VLAN. Once I decommission my old PoE cameras I will check it out although I still like them on their own VLAN so that 1) nothing can communicate with them and 2) they don't have direct access to the internet. For those reasons I may keep them there even if it costs some more cycles... well that is unless I start to get CPU bound.
It is really interesting, at first I was tempted to go like this with a setup Home Assistant / Compatibles camera, but that add a nice other option. Is everything local and owned by you? Or is there any system that require an Unify account or some online / cloud thing?
Glad it was helpful! I can use everything local if I like.
@@TechnoTim That's great! They are not really cheap, but I may look into it in the futur and after some saving, it look like a great option without much configuration needed in the end!
Be careful with SSD for devices that have heavy read/write cycles. SSD have a lot shorter R/W cycles than magnetic drives.
Agreed! Thanks!
Thats why you should use Write Endurance Enterprise SSDs for high write workloads. Also most of those have a longer warranty
@@Morpheuz87 It's just the nature of NAND in gereral. It has a more limited R/W life spand
I truly love ubiquiti but the lack of logs make me feel bad :/ I'm interested in their camera system but I can't stop thinking then their device need more function sometime. Don't get me wrong, I love my udm but I want to have logs and filter on the logs...
Agreed. I am almost to the point of exporting them but this should be native
@@TechnoTim yes I'm thinking to do a logstash/kibana combo or a splunk just for that but this will required to me some work for something then I consider as a native thing to be :/ :)
💯 agreed
what brand is the ethernet cables? =)
You can find everything here kit.co/TechnoTim/techno-tim-network-stack
SSD wears out though. How long can you record before it wears out?
We’ll find out. If it wears out I will file an RMA and get a new one.
@@TechnoTim Here is the warranty information for the linked ssd in the description. Chances are, with motion events, it will be may be difficult to write 1.2 petabytes to wear out the cells. However, that's subject to how your recording settings are set and how many cameras you have. It's an environment factor.
* Warrantied TBW for 860 EVO: 150 TBW for 250 GB model, 300 TBW for 500 GB model, 600 TBW for 1 TB model, 1,200 TBW for 2 TB model and 2,400 TBW for 4 TB model.
* 5-years or TBW, whichever comes first.
@@GrishTech thanks! I’ll always roll the dice on SSDs. We roll the dice on mechanical too. I have very few, if any, hard drives from 5 years ago. Most likely they will be replaced with something else by year 4
You should probably say in the beginning, wether you are sponsored or received some of the products from the manufacturer when you are doing videos about hardware or stuff one need to pay for. Good video though. Curious if propriatary is the best solution here.
@@naso_g AH thx
As others mentioned, I bought everything with my own money. It's in the description too.
sooooo inspiring bro!
Thank you!
Does that instant have standalone RTSP?
It can relay the video to RTSP from Protect
@@TechnoTim No, I'm wondering if it can do RTSP w/o protect.
I use Unifi Video unfortunately...
Ah, bummer. Will you ever upgrade to Protect?
@@TechnoTim I've got two g3 flex cameras and two ac-lite APs, and I'm on the fence over whether or not to get a CK G2+. Ubiquiti abandoning Unifi Video kind of sucked. At the minimum I just need motion detection, object detection would be nice. I need to look at open source solutions, then maybe Blue Iris, then maybe a CK G2+.
@@CameronBlunt I just came from that environment. Was running BI for years and sadly not too many OS solutions. I wish there were.
these products' shape is so ...... adult only. The bigger size one looks better for me.
How does small sleek camera === adult size? :)
I think you mean Columbo, he always says, "one more thing"
Well played!
Are we giving away our age if we know just who Columbo is?
@@jeffherdzina6716 Who's Columbo ;)
Wait, You have been sitting down this whole time?
Haha! Yes for TH-cam but stand the whole time on Twitch!
@@TechnoTim Aaah haha got it. Big fan btw.
@8:19 If I see my "WiFi Traffic Distribution" to be anything else than green and if my "average device experience score" is less than 97%, I start looking for ways to suicide. HOW CAN YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD WITH AVERAGE DEVICE EXPERIENCE AT 94%????? Just teach me how!
Haha! I have some clients that have a weak connection. I am ok with that since they are iot and far from my AP 😀