Why do I have a compulsion to collect Ubiquiti things?
Why do I have a compulsion to collect Ubiquiti things?
Kind of a silly post, to be sure, but figured I'd put it up for the sake of the community...
I'm relatively new to the Ubiquiti community, buying my first gear a few months back. I wanted more control, more performance, or more options to fiddle with. I started with a UDM-SE, a U6E and two U6 Extenders. They've been great and significantly improved my overall performance.
But the rabbit hole opened up, next was a rack, then some UPSs. Then a SW24E (because I needed that 2.5G port for the U6E, right? The nest cameras were sold to get some Ubiquiti ones, a UNVR was just acquired. Getting a Doorbell Pro is only a matter of time, cause I need to get rid of that nest doorbell. I keep looking on line for used Ubiquiti gear on line (that's how I ended up with the UNVR and one of the cameras). I keep trying to think of reasons for other gear.
I've never really had a collector mentality for anything, but for some reason the Ubiquiti gear has trigger it. I've apparently drank (and am swimming) in the kool-aid. Anyone else need an intervention?
I'm doing it, too. The room my rack will go in won't ready til later this year but I got a UDMSE, U6 Pro, U6 In-wall, Flex Switch anyway. All running in temporary spots until I can get my home runs run. I have a 24 port PoE switch, 5 cameras and a doorbell yet to go.
I'm already looking at trying to integrate some IoT lights/shades/whatever via Lutron or Homekit. Can't do that for a few months either but it will give me time to figure it out.
Ubiquiti was founded by an ex-Apple employee. I don't know to what extent that has an impact on how products are designed and made, but I do feel like products, particularly the Unifi line are a bit like Apple products. Made to work and integrate together. For better and for worse, sometimes more thought is being put into design rather than implementation.... but over the years I noticed an improvement with regard to that. It just looks appealing visibly. And given the prosumer features/price, it's a far lower barrier to buying new stuff to play around with and not having to pay the enterprise premium prices for the more established brands.
I have quite a few items as well. Would this community be a good place to possibly buy, sell, and trade devices?