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I personally recommend against UniFi for security now. Their software just isn't great anymore, and you can't really "selfhost" the protect. You have to have one of their proprietary boxes hosting the protect software. I'm not 100% against that - but I was not aware of that when I bought the first camera and had to buy the box.
As for the software, it's honestly just buggy and laggy. I'm in their system now, but if I could do it all again I'd look at others.
I'm somewhat stuck on Unifi for wifi APs and Routers, because all the other consumer-grade devices can't handle the number of small IoT devices I've got. Netgear and Asus just lose connections with ESP devices and refuse to let them connect after about a dozen. The commercial grade stuff, in addition to being too expensive, is all rack mounted, high power draw and noisy af.
Aside from the fact that my stuff seems stable on the Ubiquiti hardware, I hate the products. The interface is terrible, Unifi insists on hiding the advanced networking behind a halfass gui, the SSH console lacks half the features of even that terrible gui, and every time i try to create a new routed network, the wifi devices stop connecting.
I use unifi for wifi because honestly I like the dashboard.
But.. for anything layer 3, I'm using MikroTik. It's extremely powerful without actually running your own router, and many are Poe as well. I'm running a RB5009 which is overkill for me.
I chose RB5009 because it runs DoH, ZeroTier, sub interfaces, it's rack mountable, passively cooled, poe capable, and can handle up to 2.5gb symmetrical. I just wish they had 2 x SFPs so I can use a full 10gb WAN
Was about to mention Mikrotik. They even have a 100GBit switch for under $800 (CRS504-4XQ-IN).
This was the biggest bummer for me that convinced me not to get into the Unify ecosystem. I already have a robust storage solution at home, I just want to point the cameras to a docker container running on my host with all the storage.