Curious if anyone here on the boards uses Ubiquiti at home/work and has anyopinions on it, specifically the cameras and using a dream machine as an NVR.

I've got a hodge podge of cheap cameras today. My POE cameras and NVR areapproaching 7 years and they were on the clunky side even then. I've got adozen Wyze cameras too, but it's tough to rely on them.

Not sure if the thousands I'd have to spend to get into Ubiquiti are worth it,or I should look elsewhere. I do want a local NVR, but I'd rather have an'appliance' as I'm looking to fiddle with stuff like Shinobi or Blue Iris... mycurrent Amcrest NVR has been quietly working w/o issues for years, but itabsolutely sucks for almost everything other than scrubbing video (once youfind the camera).

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Re: Ubiquiti vs...
By: dux to All on Mon Jun 01 2026 03:47 pm

Curious if anyone here on the boards uses Ubiquiti at home/work and has anyopinions on it, specifically the cameras and using a dream machine as an NVR.

I have not. At my house, I have an assortment of different IP (mostly PoE) cameras and Blue Iris - works really well, but you have to be into that kind of thing (I am). For my daughters' appartment, I didn't want to replicate such a system so I went with a Reolink NVR and WiFi camera setup. It's proprietary (not interoperable with BI or any other NVR) but the cameras are decent quality and the price was right. I think it was 4 cameras (one of them auto-PTZ w/dual lens/zoom) w/ NVR for like $500.
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