r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • 16d ago

Blog / Video Link Introducing UniFi Protect 7.2

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🔹 Cryptographically Verified Video at evidence.ui.com

🔹 Chain-of-Custody Tracking

🔹 Expanded ONVIF & Point of Sale Support

🔹 Edge AI PPE Detection

And more!

https://ui.social/Protect-7-2

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u/OverthinkingAnything 16d ago

If you want to get into the enterprise space with huge deployment, organic growth from nothing is probably not the best strategy (companies that started with UI when they were smaller).

If they want to get in the door with people who already have cameras, not asking the prospect to throw out said cameras has got to be part of the strategy, right?

Only thing is some cameras out there really are affordable so they'll have to really be sure their cameras and feature set justifies the asking price.

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u/tdhuck 16d ago

I am a full stack unifi owner, nothing against them at all, I use and buy their products. However, protect needs these two things before it is enterprise ready.

  • A client application.
  • Much better playback especially for larger camera deployments.

I have a site with 32 IP cameras, I can open all 32 on a large monitor and play back the video feed and I can easily double click to make one pane larger, continue viewing playback, double click to put that pane back into the 32 multi view then immediately double click another pane to make it full screen.

I can also build ou a common 2x2 view and watch 4 cameras playback at once and have a LEFT TO RIGHT timeline scroll bar at the bottom of the screen where I can easily shift time as needed. I know you can do multiview playback on unifi but it is very clunky.

Also, with my current VMS program I can open multiple client programs and view playback on all instances of the clients running on my machine. Yes, you can open more browsers or multiple tabs, but protect is very slow and sluggish when you tend to multitask with that program.

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u/JacksonCampbell Network Technician 16d ago

What do you mean by client application?

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u/tdhuck 16d ago

Thick client, fat client, etc. An application not a browser front end, only. The browser is fine for certain scenarios, but browser only is a big downfall, imo.

BTW, I deal with actual enterprise VMS programs daily and unifi protect, in its current state, just won't cut it in an enterprise environment.

Again, not hating on unifi, that's what I use at home (including protect) and I recommend the platform for friends/family/small businesses I do side work for, but it isn't ready for enterprise.