Mastering Ubiquiti: UniFi Protect App, In-Depth

Welcome to episode 6 of our Mastering Ubiquiti webinar series. Explore the UniFi Protect app in-depth in this webinar and learn how to get your surveillance system up, running and tuned. We will cover everything from camera on-boarding to managing your CCTV coverage areas.
Whether you're a network engineer, IT professional, or simply interested in the latest WiFi technologies, this webinar is tailored to cater to all skill levels.

🎓 What You'll Learn

📜 Gain an understanding of the history and product range of UniFi Surveillance.
📦 Deploy UniFi Protect Appliances efficiently to optimise your surveillance setup.
🎥 Learn about various cameras for different functions, understanding their unique features.
🔔 Integrate doorbells and UniFi Access to create a unified security system.
💾 Understand throughput and storage requirements.
🛡️ Secure your network for cameras, ensuring the protection of surveillance data.
📍 Select, manage, and strategically position cameras for optimal coverage.
📱 Live demonstration of the UniFi Protect app.

✏️ Full Agenda ✏️
① Welcome and Introduction
② UniFi surveillance - History and products
③ Throughput requirements and security
④ Camera selection, management and positioning
⑤ Viewing footage - Platforms and users
⑥ Q&A and closing remarks

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🔗 Useful Links 🔗

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0:00 Intro
5:21 UniFi Surveillance, History and Products
7:35 Deploying UniFi Protect
9:28 Exploring the Camera Models
12:35 Understanding Codecs, Resolution and Bitrates
17:19 Storage
21:02 Camera Selection, Management and Positioning
24:45 UniFi Protect Live Demonstration
42:53: Recap and Ubiquiti Training
46:19 Q&A Session

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[thelegendarymasterofnothing]

Hm… 🤔 Is that all the history you sure? Aren't you forgetting something? I don't know… Off the top of my head, that one time when they killed UniFi Video and removed the necessary apps from the mobile stores crippling all installations unless the users still possessed access to an account used to get the app earlier.

And of course with that, resell value tanked as well. Not to mention UI's relentless attempts accompanied with threats and other warning to drop support for older devices which would then have no way of being managed since unlike most other vendors who have at least a TUI. Let's not forget UI's pivot to become a data collection company, in control of your network. Read the policies. Last but not least: the blatant gaslighting effort UI has entangled itself in; it has this SSO service, not unlike Azure B2C with a starting base of 50000 user accounts (UniFi is 5) at the free entry tier. That's fine, whatever, the problem is that UI want to charge you for integrating your Active Directory. UI doesn't provide the AD servers, you provide them, you also need to provide UI's required hardware and UI provides… what exactly? Nothing, expect access to use your own equipment, in other words licensing—which on the front page UI claims it doesn't do—complete with a rip off of Apple's Hi, I'm a Mac ad campaign.

This, recently hacked company, has behaved insidiously unethically over and over, which should give potential customers pause before dropping money on its locked ecosystem. I'd be mortified to have a UI-branded NVR connected to the Internet— Actually, I'd be worried about any of its consoles/controllers in general being rendered on a browser, unless they are reverse proxied in order to remove the tracking scripts. There is zero reason for network/AAA/surveillance equipment to connect to the Internet.