UniFi Planning Tools
Each of these runs the same arithmetic the guide beside it publishes, against the same sourced spec sheets the gear pages render. They are pinned to those figures by test, so a tool here cannot quietly disagree with the page that explains it.
Protect Storage Calculator
Cameras by bitrate, retention target, drives and layout in — the days a recorder will really keep, after parity and the formatting tax. Protect never warns you it has run out; it deletes the oldest footage and looks healthy doing it.
How many days will I actually hold?
PoE Budget Planner
Class draw reserved at the port rather than consumed at the device, checked against the total budget, the per-port ceiling, the standards the chassis speaks and the 70-to-80-percent design rule. Read from the spec sheets behind the gear pages.
Can this switch actually power all of that?
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