I'm helping a friend with cameras for his new house. I've always recommended Dahua, but was wondering if there's a reason to look at Unifi cameras? I feel that Dahua's are cheaper and have better if not comparable image quality (depending on the model), but wanted to see if there's something I'm overlooking.
Why Ubiquiti/Unifi over Dahua?
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Most here, including the Unifi universe fans, say their cameras have much to be desired and they are tickled pink that Unifi is starting to allow 3rd party cameras into their platform.
Yeah, I mean that's a game changer. Aside from cameras, the Unifi NVR/Protect stuff is probably what I'm going to recommend for him.
Thanks for confirming what I thought.
Your right about the sensors but there is a certain aspect of using unifi cameras with the protect system. Everything just works and you actually get updates to the cameras.
Protect system is actually pretty nice. They are constantly updating it and adding features. Its also ndaa compliant. At this time, if Im installing cameras in a small business (or home) I would probably go the unifi protect route. Its kind of set it and forget it.
I have one of the protect systems at my house (got a few different systems). The wife loves it and took her a second to learn how to use it. Their doorbell is also great and saves me the yearly increasing ring fee I used to pay.
Its nice they added third party support. I see their end game here. Trying to gain market share. Too bad no object detection unless you spend more money with third party cameras.
I know a guy who started putting it in for the AI stuff. Facial recognition is pretty cool and getting alerts when people banned from the establishment is pretty damn cool. Again its easy to use and just works.
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