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I was confused by the parent comment too. Aside from the remote management features, if you turn off cloud login you still get everything else. Maybe it's something specific to the USG Pro? I've only used the smaller USG.

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I recently invested in UniFi hardware with the UDM Pro and this isn't exactly correct. UniFi Protect (the video security line) requires remote access and Ubiquiti Cloud accounts or it will break in a million weird ways. If you disable cloud login you cannot reasonably use UniFi Protect.

Good catch. Since USG is Unifi Security Gateway, I kinda just mixed it up with Unifi Protect. Still a troubling development IMO.

As someone who uses UniFi Protect and refuses to use cloud-login: I disagree somewhat. It works fine, but the mobile apps become non-functional even on the same LAN. I haven't ran into any other problems.

> a major feature within my own infrastructure is completely broken

> can't see why disabling cloud login is a problem

I was responding to "will break in a million weird ways" which is FUD to my eyes.

I do agree it is a big limitation, and I am looking for alternatives as Ubiquiti do not seem to be prioritizing getting their app to work without remote login which is truly unfortunate, since the predecessor, UniFi Video, supported this.

Not USG but UDM-PRO. It was the first device from them that required me to make an ubiquiti account to set it up.

Well this is a disappointing development. I'm currently using EdgeRouter hardware, but was considering moving to their Unifi line for my next upgrade. Guess that's off the table till I can use these without cloud access.

Other comment seems to imply that only Unifi Protect really requires an account, not any of the networking functionality

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