The executives at ubiquiti should absolutely get fired for this dumpster fire terrible idea. At the very least their bonuses should be pulled and their pay docked to that of their engineers.

LoRA, Sigfox, NB-IoT, etc… already fill the long range niche with great battery life and are useless for almost all smart homes (outside of agriculture-related stuff or hobby stuff). I guarantee that they stole some of this technology under the hood for their vendor-locked trash. They should have used matter/thread, zwave, or zigbee. I wonder how easily all of their crap is going to get blocked by brick walls?

I use their networking but this is just like their cameras: overpriced garbage with mediocre quality to try to vendor-lock you.