I’m confused about ubiquiti

[Adsibob]

Just to give you my novice's take on the point @Dan F raised in his last post: if you scroll back to the beginning of this thread, you'll see a cross section of my house. It's a 5 bed house at about 2400 square feet, with decent sized ceilings in most rooms (between 2.6m and 3.3m). We just have the UDR in the corner of the house on the ground floor, then one in-wall AP inside a UFH manifold cupboard in the middle of the first floor and another in-wall AP plugged into the wall almost behind a cupboard more or less in the middle of the second floor. Very good coverage all over the house and apart from the UDR (which I think looks quite elegant) not a single AP in sight as they are all concealed. So I would think very hard before forking out all the extra cash for a UDM. The UDR is much cheaper, and enables me to power both APs directly from it using PoE.

 

Only issue on wifi coverage for me is that because I put a metal foil into our EWI as part of our build up, and also have steel studs behind the plasterboard, I've made my external wall somewhat of a faraday cage and so I don't get such a great wifi signal in the front of the house (i.e. outside our front door and our driveway) but even there it's still good enough for the outdoor hue bulbs to connect and for the Ring doorbell to just about work.

[markharro]

Thanks that's very helpful. Our house will be smaller as its two storey and we wont have any metal foil issues etc so I was hoping that the UDR + maybe one more AP might do it. As you say I can power the AP from the UDR PoE sockets and actually @Dan F the UDR also runs Unifi Protect with 128 MB internal storage for video. Not sure how that will cope storing footage from a doorbell cam and possibly 2 other external cameras and prob 1 internal but it accepts additional micro SC storage cards and a quick look shows these are available up to at least 1TB so again hopefully that might work.

[Wil]

Watch out for stone walls too.. I have loads of APs thanks to lack of signal between rooms.

 

128MB won’t last 2 mins with constant recording and most ‘motion detection’ misses critical events IMHO. has the UDR got a USB port for an external hard drive?

[markharro]

I was thinking of setting it up for motion detection only and I think that some at least of the Unifi cameras can be further restricted to record only on "human" motion detect. No USB port - just a slot for a Micro SD card!