I did a basic UniFi setup at my house back in the fall and it’s been pretty simple and fully reliable. It’s pretty much the apple of home networking and security.
Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell
by hot_gril on Thursday March 09, 2023 @04:02PM
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The Apple of home networking was Apple until they discontinued AirPort. It was much easier.
It's my understanding that now ubiquiti used to be a good company/solution, but they ruined that recently by introducing a lot of "phoning home"-like "features" for their routers. Given that the tech group is almost always more privacy/security oriented than typical, and that's Ubiquiti's target audience, it was a very poor choice on their part and probably removed a significant portion of their customers.
Perhaps the solution that the tech-oriented crowd will move to now is just making things from scratch, I haven't seen the clear consensus on it yet.
You can opt out of remote/Ubiquiti managed login. This is just FUD. Ubiquiti is still excellent.
Re:The privacy loophole in your doorbell
by hot_gril on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:48AM
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But it's an aggressive default. Tbh I didn't even figure out how to opt out of it, I just grumbled and made the account. It's wifi for crying out loud, should be plug n play.
My parents replaced the Ubiqitis themselves with some no-name Amazon wifi APs when they started having issues I wasn't there to fix. MAC address manufacturer lookup just said "Shenzhen." Plug n play.
The real test is at my parents' house, where I don't live but I manage some of their stuff remotely / occasionally in person. I can't sit there and babysit whatever gets installed, nor do I want to do that in my own home. They don't understand computers but were fine managing the Ring once I set it up. Ubiquiti wifi there was a headache.