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by martinmunk
1651 days ago
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Updates are usually pretty easy. I manage 4 controllers at home, and 2 at work. All hosted on debian. I've had just one update go bad, so I do do the recommended backup/export beforehand. That said, I don't trust Ubiquity much anymore. Use Unifi in QA setups so we are prone to hit cornercases, but they exists. I still buy their gear as there is no competitors in the price range. Edit: Spelling |
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My big problem with Ubnt is things like trying to force me to create and use a cloud account just to use my local hardware. I did not, but a couple different times they tried to make it mandatory.
To me it's not good enough that I was able to get around that. To me it's a problem that they even tried, that they would if they could. That means my win is only temporary and every day they are trying to figure out a way to get what they want, and every day might be the day they essentially break my stuff.
But I've had a pretty good experience with the hardware and software all in all. I run a cloud key, the old original one. It was annoying paying so much for so little, and annoying needing anything at all just for that, and annoying that it makes my 24 port switch effectively a 23 port (I see it as robbing a port because it's not like any other device which does some job I want. The devices all run full freaking linux OSs. They have way more than enough brains on board to hold their own config settings!), but I can't say it ever failed.
But I only use switches and aps. No cams and definitely no router. That's another case where it's only been fine for me because I'm not doing what they want.
There have been a few different times over the last few years where I was glad I never even made an account on their cloud service let alone actually configured a device, and glad my router is opnsense.
So there are things I don't like, but failed updates and non-function has not been among them.