I don’t know anything about this company (which people seem to not like), but SLAM for WiFi is looks pretty cool (and even somewhat useful).
Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
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Re: Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
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#13I'm pretty happy with Ubiquity's hardware, but if it has anything to do with their cloud based software it's gonna be a hard pass due to the increased security risk. It's a shame too, since cloud based services make device admin so convenient.
> It's a shame too, since cloud based services make device admin so convenient. I don’t see how cloud services could make anything easier than just sticking a Linux box with their controller in a rack or closet. It’s your own cloud.
Also if you lose connectivity during a disaster, you're effed.
Sure you wouldn't have internet, but you would have a local network that would still work, and could still be administered.
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#14I'm pretty happy with Ubiquity's hardware, but if it has anything to do with their cloud based software it's gonna be a hard pass due to the increased security risk. It's a shame too, since cloud based services make device admin so convenient.
> It's a shame too, since cloud based services make device admin so convenient. I don’t see how cloud services could make anything easier than just sticking a Linux box with their controller in a rack or closet. It’s your own cloud.
This completely disregards the software aspect which arguably is the most value in a cloud-based management service.
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#15Why does this require Android 9 or higher?
I'm not related to this project, but I am an Android dev, and I would guess it has to do with the WiFi changes detailed here: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0... Google often changes the permissions/allowed access/APIs to potentially sensitive device data, and frowns upon/bans using old APIs. Probably the app was built with permissions changes in mind and perhaps had to set that specific m…
Ironically those changes are why I'm still on Android 8.1.
Re: Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
#16Why does this require Android 9 or higher?
Considering that this is pretty novel, I’d guess that Android v9 offers some APIs that aren’t available in earlier versions.
Either way supporting something that was released 3 years ago (and available to devices bought up to 5 years ago) feels very much reasonable for a new product.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's a shame too, since cloud based services make device admin so convenient. I don’t see how cloud services could make anything easier than just sticking a Linux box with their controller in a rack or closet. It’s your own cloud.
Also if you lose connectivity during a disaster, you're effed. Sure you wouldn't have internet, but you would have a local network that would still work, and could still be administered.
I believe that this is not a problem with UniFi. It should save your credentials locally. And you always have the option to log in via a local IP address rather than ui.com
Re: Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
#18nice, has lots of other features like detecting low energy bluetooth and audio to tell you if you're getting closer or farther away
Re: Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
#19Great. More things no one needs. Please, Ubiquiti, work on your existing products. Your forums and reddit are full of frustrated customers with unresolved bugs and issues.
I disagree that no one needs it; this would have been very helpful when I was trying to troubleshoot my AP’s dead zones. Agree on the rest
There are quite a few basic, long-promised, high-demand features they need to spend time on first, before introducing an additional half-baked feature.
If it's anything like the dashboard it'll be lots of pretty without the simple tweaks needed to actually make it useful.
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#20Wow lots of haters here. I love their products. I, for one, don’t have that time or energy to build or manually maintain my own home grown networking gear. So having something that works flawlessly for me nearly all the time is very valuable.
The hate is because most felt like you at one point, and loved, and want to love, the products.
Then one day you try to change a simple setting, and realize it'll take ssh and scripts and half a day of tinkering to make a non-persistent change that Linksys/Netgear/whoever does off the shelf, and dd-wrt could do a decade ago.
Or add an additional device, or run the software update, or have a UPS kick on, and everything suddenly breaks.
Also, it doesn't always work flawlessly. Have had hardware issues on probably 1/4 of the devices over 3~4 years of use.
Then there's the phone-home "feature" they slipped in a software update without mention or a way to disable without manually rolling back updates on every device.
That said, I'm still using it. I bought a separate firewall device and run old firmware, but I still use it.