Not the cheapest it's ever been, but I've noticed a rise in the price of these in recent times, so this is a really good price. Would be nice to couple a new UDM Pro with the Unifi 6 LITE deal for some juicy wifi goodness.
Absolutely - having PoE and the onboard SSD would be great.
It's going to be about AU$200 more than the regular Dream Machine Pro based on the released pricing in the US. I'd rather put that cash towards a dedicated Unifi POE switch that doesn't have a 1 gigabit backplane.
With building a new house, is this something we should look at?
We want most things to be "connected". Will be running a 5 camera system with 8-10TB HDD, with 4-5 mobile devices and 2 desktop with printer and server. TV will be hooked up via ethernet etc as well. We live quite regional so finding someone to do this for the house has been difficult.
Stick to a Dream Machine (not pro) unless your planning on setting up a data cabinet. It will also double up as an wireless access point. You will probably need one more access point around the house somewhere, so make sure you get a cat6 run to that point too. Also 8tb-10tb for 5 cameras is way overkill. I would stick to 2tb-4tb and set some cameras around the house to motion record and the ones out front to full time record.
If you want to do cameras then the Pro may be the better buy as it supports Unifi Protect where the non Pro doesn’t. If you’re going another vendor for cameras then that won’t matter, but if you want to use Unifi then the UDM-Pro would be the better buy.
I think the only non rack Unifi Protect option is the Cloud Key Gen 2 but that’s a good 60% of the cost of this device, isn’t itself a router or Switch (so you’ll need another device) and the 2.5” HDD may be limiting as there’s plenty of reports of SRM drives during within a year is used for NVR purposes and there’s little or no 2.5” CRM drives above 2TB.
You do really need to rack the Pro, but the 3.5” drives more versatile and it does cover a lot of the base hardware you need. Again, the decision to use or not use Unifi for your cameras is a big factor in this decision but.
Regular dream machine has had pretty scathing reviews
Yes - Most sparkles do cabling now and some may have experience in network. Ubiquiti tools are pretty straightforward
If I was building new, I would have an enclosed rack in a central location such as cupboard - needs venting and power - with cat6 cabling to entertainment rooms/study/kitchen, central wifi ap in celing, those camera locations, external network termination point (nbn or other).
Dream machine pro matched with a central roof mounted wifi access point like unifi 6 lite should cover a reasonably large house with that many devices
You will also need a 1g switch for as many ports/devices and if you need those desktops and printer connected extra cables
Gear can and will be changed over time. The most important thing is to run ethernet cables (Cat6 or above) from where you will put all of your network "gear" (NBN box, switch, router, NAS etc) to where you will put your wifi access points (APs).
I recommend you place an AP central to your living area because we usually use wireless devices on the couch these days, and one at the other end of the house.
Also if you can afford it, run ethernet cables to all TV locations and the office. Streaming 8K TV will see you run out of WiFi bandwidth quickly, if you can leave that data to run over ethernet your WiFi will stay fast for your wireless devices.
The only thing you need to do as part of your build, is run the network cabling, and most sparkies can do that. It'll cost next to nothing if they run at the same time they drop the power cabling.
Run a cable from every room, back to a central location. And also cables for your cameras and wifi access points.
Then once the house is finished, you have a bunch of network cables all running back to one place. Just plug them all into a network switch, plug that switch into your router, connect the router to NBN, and you're done.
In each room, just plug your device into the network port, and if you have more than one device in that room, then plug a network switch into the network port, to convert it into as many ports as you need.
Your actual choices of switches and router and access points, don't need to be made until you're ready to plug in. This device is a fine choice for the router if you're ready to connect up today.
Ubiquiti also make POE switches to power your cameras, 16 and 24 port switches to go into your main cable location, and small 8 port switches to go into the rooms that need them.
Probably not necessary. Most important thing I would suggest is getting decent conduit runs out in for getting your cabling throughout the house. The Sparkie will probably do a shit job of cabling too, they often have no idea. You can then engage a proper data cabler to do the cabling afterwards.
Some builders can act like dicks when you try this path tho.
Thank you all for the posts, we allowed about 15k for technology to be put in. Its a 2 storey house with a rooftop terrace (about 500sqm total) but is being built with ICF so ensuring we get the cabling correct is quite important.
Ignore the cable spaghetti, but here’s an example of a UDM Pro + netgear POE switch running in a central cabinet. This combo is running 3 Unifi cameras, an AP plus an IP intercom. The UDM pro is great if you are running other ubiquiti gear. When we renovated our house I cabled every room with at least 2 runs, and ran a few spares into the roof “just in case”.
This is perfect thanks for sharing, look forward to joining the Ubiquiti community!
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There is a UDM Pro SE edition around the corner. So maybe wait for those who wants the latest and greatest…