I went the Unifi route a few years ago and have had zero issues, nor have any of my friends who I have convinced to do it as well. With HomeKit you can have cameras show up on your TV and the api lets you monitor all things related to your network in Grafana.
However, in order to maximize the benefits you need to have ethernet wiring throughout your home because so many of the products are PoE.
Yes, the only reason why I didn't go down that route earlier was wiring - more expensive and kind of a pain in the ass, especially for outdoor cameras.
Obviously I'm not going to throw away all my Nest cameras, but surely enough, I won't be buying new ones once they die.
Unifi is not flawless regards canceling or limiting services either, BUT most of the stuff works even when they are dead because most features work locally.
So be aware, there are dragons. On the other side: works flawless for me for many years now.
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I went the Unifi route a few years ago and have had zero issues, nor have any of my friends who I have convinced to do it as well. With HomeKit you can have cameras show up on your TV and the api lets you monitor all things related to your network in Grafana.
However, in order to maximize the benefits you need to have ethernet wiring throughout your home because so many of the products are PoE.
Yes, the only reason why I didn't go down that route earlier was wiring - more expensive and kind of a pain in the ass, especially for outdoor cameras.
Obviously I'm not going to throw away all my Nest cameras, but surely enough, I won't be buying new ones once they die.
Unifi is not flawless regards canceling or limiting services either, BUT most of the stuff works even when they are dead because most features work locally.
So be aware, there are dragons. On the other side: works flawless for me for many years now.