UniFi Dream Machine SE

The Dream Machine that can power cameras itself, which on a small job removes the separate PoE switch. Count the ports before relying on that: of the eight gigabit ports only two are PoE+ at 30 W, the other six are standard PoE at 15.4 W, against a 180 W budget, so two higher-draw cameras is the ceiling before a switch comes back into the quote. It runs UniFi Network and UniFi Protect together on a single 3.5-inch bay, which is the limit worth watching, since a job that outgrows one drive wants a UNVR instead. The drive is not included; the built-in 128 GB SSD is application storage, not recording space. The unifiprotect integration connects over the LAN to the console. Full access needs a local UniFi OS user created on the console itself plus a Protect API key; an API key alone works but exposes a subset of the entities. Ubiquiti SSO cloud accounts do not work either way.