Zarathustra[H]
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From 1st January 2021, the Unifi Video NVR will no longer be offered or supported, More specifically: No software or hardware revisions will be released, including for web UI and mobile applications.Dec 15, 2020
If I am not mistaken the NVR is their local only hardware box.
I do not think they have discontinued the Unifi Video Linux server software package. Probably only a matter of time though.
Turns out you are right.
I've been super busy over the last two years and just haven't been able to keep up with the news.
They are discontinuing the entire Unifi Video ecosystem in favor of their newer cloud based and dedicated hardware Unifi Protect product line.
That is profoundly stupid. Don't they realize that the ONLY reason so many of their customers bought their products is because they could run them on their own hardware? What's next, removing the ability to use Unifi AP's with your own local server? It's like they are morphing into Meraki, and in the process trying to kill their own business.
I still have some unifi cameras in unopened boxes I was planning on using to expand my network. Looks like I am going to ahve to sell or trash all my Unifi stuff and start over, if there even is an alternative out there these days. This really pisses me off. I have spent quite a bit of money on their camera hardware which is suddenly completely useless to me.
Looks like a software package called Blue Iris can read video streams from the Unifi cameras, so all is not lost, but it requires a $69 license, and will only run on Windows, which is a problem for my environment. ZoneMinder might be another option, but from everything I ahve read it is very poorly documented and really difficult to set up...
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