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The actual title of the article is "UniFi-Video Products End of Life Announcement". That's very different from this headline. Ubiquiti is very much still in the video business. They're just deprecating the previous generation, which has been a long time coming.

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You definition of "long time" and mine are very different. Security camera life cycle is measured in manymany years (min of 5 if not 10+). This move is very sudden for people that have invested thousands of dollars into a security platform only to be told you have 5 months before we leave out out in the cold

Not a good look for UI. I was thinking about using UI protect for myself. But their treatment of UI video customers has me rethinking that

They have been saying the older Video products are deprecated for over a year now, and it’s not like they’ll suddenly stop working either. The nice thing about those cameras is the self-hosting. Nothing changes there, so what’s the problem?

They have been talking out of both sides of their mouth to to ensure UniFi Video NVR customers would keep buying camera's

They have been saying the UniFi Video NVR would be supported for security released until Protect provided the same feature set, then they would give amble notice to transition

Protect does not have the same feature set, nor is 5mos ample time for transition

As far as "nothing stops working" Well things will stop working, remote access for example

Further as one person on the Ubnt site asks "How long will the keep the mobile app in the app stores" if they remove it from the iPhone store and a user upgrades their phone they will have no way to install the app again.

That is just 2 of the huge list of issues that this move brings

Ok, we've changed to the article title. Submitted title was "Ubiquiti Video Products: End of Life Announcement".

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