Hi all, my Unifi Doorbell just died after only 4 years of service. I’ve been pretty disheartened with them lately, other products haven’t lived up to the company’s promise.

So I’m not looking to replace my networking stack yet, but I am looking for a doorbell camera. I only have the Unifi machine, but I also have an extensive docker/kubernetes stack, and mostly I want to use it with Home Assistant.

Any recommendations? Open to software, hardware, you name it. I have a few other Unifi cameras too, if they could be brought into the fold while I slowly migrate, I’d be interested. Thanks!

  • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Same here. I went through 3 Netgear’s and a Linksys in as many years and said no more. Moved to Ubiquiti and haven’t looked back. My current dream machine of two years replaced a still working but older/slower cloud gateway of 5 yrs with AC Pro’s and now a WiFi 7 AP. The last NetGear I replaced cost more than the Cloud Gateway + AC Pro. And the latter was way faster with better coverage.

    Everyone’s got different luck with computer gear though. I know I’ve had bad luck with things other people rave about, so choices are great to have.

    • happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I had one 2 netgear WiFi AC routers that failed back to back, tho the first one ran for 10 years without trouble. When it died, the replacement was just… Awful. A direct downgrade in every aspect. Performance, wifi coverage was gARBAGE , it would reboot constantly, and the management ui was Fisher Priced to death. I got the Dream Machine BC it was on sale and they were about to roll out the new Dream Router. Never looked back.