IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering

Re:IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Cus... by tda on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:29AM (#25197163)

Ubiquity definitely also has a lot of issues. Unstable firmware's, non-responsive support on their forums, deprecating working products... Like you can't self host their DVR software, but the newest versions don't run on older hardware so you have to buy a new hardware to get new software.

Also their product lines Edge and Unifi don't work together, so you can't manage an EdgeRouter with Unifi or vice versa, for which I don't think there is a technical reason, just commercial.

Hardware wise they also have made strange choices regarding PoE, don't assume your Unifi PoE switch will work with your Unifi PoE device (really double check the versions, voltages, passive/active)

So lots to complain, though I think it is still the most accessible pro-sumer networking stuff.

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Re:IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Cus... by roland35 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:09AM (#25197383)

Newer Unifi products use the correct standard 802.3af/at PoE, but you are correct their older gear uses some non-standard 24V (I believe).

I have been using their "Dream Machine" and a mesh node for about 6 months now and have had 0 problems, but I have not tried to tinker around too much yet!

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