Is Unifi's new DisplayCast Pro Worth the Upgrade?

[@maxherman11]

Quick correction, the normal, non pro DisplayCast does not have Wi-Fi, that is an upgrade to the Pro model with wireless connectivity. The normal one can only connect via Ethernet.

[@DPCTechnology]

@@maxherman11 that is correct

[@rocksem9451]

I love Unifi. I have switched our network and access points to them. We implemented Talk with phones this year and have just started the process of setting up over 40 cameras and 3 doors on Access. However, DisplayCast just lags way to far behind in design and features in the Digital signage world. I implemented Yodeck this year which runs on Raspberry Pis and it leave this in the dust. At this point I just wish they would come out with a paging speaker/system which ties into Talk.

[@ryanhelder]

We bought 8 of these for our office and just deployed them - they are great! I wish there were more media options, but it meets our needs perfectly fine right now

[@DPCTechnology]

@@ryanhelder awesome

[@jamesaikens]

This is so close to being able to be a KVM! A potential whole new market for UI! Not sure what needs to change the hardware from an HDMI out, to an Input...But seeing how they just added a RAM upgrade to the UNVR and turned it into a NAS... Perhaps this is something that could be added to their roadmap as they are barreling down the competition in the enterprise market! I'd LOVE to have a clean, PoE powered KVM that could be managed from a cloud console for out enterprise!

[@davidanderson2436]

Thanks, would like to see more about the display pro and how you deploying them. I can definitely see a use case here where I am manually using Pi's that's a colossal pita. Displaying Web Pages and Web Content are all I have been waiting for!

[@ESINNISEESIN]

Thanks for the great video. Regarding usb-c, did you try using a USB-C dongle with PD pass-through ? This trick works with Chromecast, I believe it might work as well with this.

[@DPCTechnology]

@@ESINNISEESIN I did not but will

[@JustAVeryNaughtyBoy]

Would it also work using a POE power only injector and still connect via WiFi leaving the USB free for a keyboard and mouse?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@JustAVeryNaughtyBoy yes

[@davidday9251]

Have you considered introducing what the device does first??

[@DPCTechnology]

@@davidday9251 I'm assuming if you were here on this video you probably knew what it did. But it is a digital signage device

[@heman1320]

​@@DPCTechnology I was just browsing your channel. Not a direct search.

[@valopez975]

Thanks! Going to order some for my accounts.

[@DPCTechnology]

@@valopez975 Awesome!

[@tyhend88]

Thanks for the update video. I have two of the regular ones in production. It’s been a wild ride adopting these early on as UI released some bad updates the past year but they are better now. Mine do turn the TVs off and on and don’t have WiFi. I would say the $80 more is worth it since you can also do web pages. I would assume you could play 4K videos as well. The old version will not accept 4K videos :/

[@area51xi]

Yeah I’d like to see more detail on dashboards. Wonder if you could pair this up with Home Assistant.

[@DPCTechnology]

@@area51xi sounds like a great video idea

[@DG8RS]

This gives me a lot to think about. We run a cloud-based service for marketing displays in our lobbies, and it requires us to mount Apple TV's behind the displays and then marketing builds out the presentations. Apple TV's are cheaper than these units, but the yearly cost for the platform may bring the total over the cost to replace them with these units and keep it all in house. Thanks for a great use case video!

[@DPCTechnology]

@@DG8RS I'm glad it helped!

[@Wu373-5]

Are you able to run UniFi Protect like pull up videos, rewind playback, and complete navigation with this device?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@Wu373-5 unfortunately no

[@brandonreidy6989]

Seems like a good Home Assistant dashboard solution

[@DPCTechnology]

@@brandonreidy6989 That's a cool idea

[@DovahDoVolom]

If the added the ability to use that USB for touch screen and have builtin calibration for that this would be a killer kiosk device

[@DPCTechnology]

@@DovahDoVolom that sounds like a fun little home lab project.. I think it would take some doing but it's probably possible

[@jimallen8238]

Thanks, but this seems pretty limited compared to just running a Raspberry Pi for signage. With the Pi, you would have a full computer at your disposal. Also, you don’t have the risk of an orphaned product when Unifi decides to stop supporting it.

[@Jepper333]

well... you are correct.... but... and here it comes: we have non technical people who need to mainain certain media in our training room. Now with this product it's verry simple and limited (for us great, for you it's not).

[@marshallb5210]

the affiliate links goes to the Device Bridge page, not the DisplayCast Pro

[@DPCTechnology]

@@marshallb5210 thanks man, will fix

[@rafaelm2690]

Ive been wanting someone to review this product

[@DPCTechnology]

Glad it helped!

[@robsgarage582]

Thank you for this review. Excellent.

[@DPCTechnology]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@ccars008]

What about a USB-C adaptor that passes power so you can power it and use a USB Port. Worth a try.

[@scpowered]

Have they added support for 360 cameras yet? We have multiple 360 cameras and setup multiple veiws from each camera, and it would only show the full 360 veiw.

[@DPCTechnology]

Display Cast doesn't work with any protect cameras unfortunately.

[@scpowered]

@DPCTechnology Ah, my mistake. I was thinking about the Protect Viewport. We have one sitting in a drawer because it didn't work for us. I should pull it out and see if it has improved. Edit: Just a follow-up, I tried the viewport again, and it now supports 360 cameras. 🥳

[@Evk2798]

Great video! Thanks! But I'm wondering: Can't you just plug in a USB-C hub into the USB-C port and solve the "only one USB-C port" problem like that?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@Evk2798 I did not try. Sounds like a cool idea

[@fkmobile1]

Hi. Thanks for the great video. Is the content cached on the device? If we loop content from the web (say a 4k video), then would it load each loop from the local cache or web?

[@kristopherleslie8343]

My competing product caches

[@JordanReese]

This should be running from your local UDM Pro or similar device for storage, but I'd guess it would do caching as well

[@DG8RS]

I have to assume it caches with 32GB of onboard storage. Most other devices in the marketing display space do the same.

[@daviddye6219]

Pls do you think I can route one of the outputs of an ATEM Iso Pro inti this DCP - remotely through the interface?

[@DPCTechnology]

I don't think so. I don't use a black magic atem, I use a n Atomos xCast.. The unit won't take a direct feed. What it will take is a web page. So if there is a web page where the atem can be hit. It may work but I don't see a way to ingest it without that..

[@blindside995]

Are you able to put in a RTSP stream just like a basic one from say a none unifi camera?

[@DPCTechnology]

That's a good idea to try!

[@blindside995]

Would love to know if it work.

[@robtaylor206]

wonder if you could schedule like every 5 min show a different webpage?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@robtaylor206 you could

[@moos854]

Hi Clay, great video! We'd like to display a Power BI dashboard, which requires logging in to the webpage. Do you know if this is possible? Thanks in advance.

[@DPCTechnology]

Yes it should be..

[@ThreeDogsTwoCatsAndAWife]

Can you still show a UniFi Protect grid?

[@DPCTechnology]

No

[@televerket]

Cant you just use a usb c hub? Thanks for the presentation! :)

[@DPCTechnology]

@@televerket I didn't test but I will

[@robM13435]

I’m not sure if this question has already been asked, but can videos be played from a NAS server/Unifi NAS on this device, and is there a time limit on the video duration?

[@iamweave]

It says it requires a HD to store content. So if said hard drive is also used for Protect is it still going to work OK? Will it share the space with Protect?

[@DPCTechnology]

It does not work with protect unfortunately

[@johntatum]

Unifi lists the standard Display Cast as having HDMI-CEC controls too, doesn't look like this is exclusive to the pro?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@johntatum I didn't even try to test will look.

[@SolarHeisseLandsberg]

Thx for the reiview! Would it be possbile to have something like an excel file being displayed on this? -> Logging into Office 365 / Microsoft Account might be an issue?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@SolarHeisseLandsberg sounds like a great video idea!

[@SolarHeisseLandsberg]

@@DPCTechnology that would be awesome :)

[@LostWorld42]

Can display cast be used for large billboards outside the building? I am new to using unifi products.

[@DPCTechnology]

@@LostWorld42 as long as it takes a regular HDMI input, it probably could display to anything..

[@LostWorld42]

@@DPCTechnology Ok. I am looking at doing something better for us. I am not 100% sure if it takes HDMI input though. If it does, this can essentially be connected to a bridge device correct?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@LostWorld42 yes the new UDB and UDB Pro would be perfect for that use case.

[@LostWorld42]

@@DPCTechnology That's great. Is there a display size limit on it?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@LostWorld42 no, just a 4k resolution limit.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Yes I want deeper please 😊

[@DPCTechnology]

@@kristopherleslie8343 Will putting the queue

[@ccurrell]

I like this video. I am a Unifi user already and like there products. I run an short term rental business, (Airbnb and Vrbo). I was thinking of using one of these to help guests with things going on in the area. I live in a high traffic tourist city and we have a decent tourism board that does lots of youtube videos already. That along with a few decent websites and I think I could have great little guest information kiosk. Do you think this product can do such a thing? I like the feature that I can schedule the dashboard to turn on at 8am and off at 10pm. Are you just leaving the TV powered on all the time? Or do you use a smart plug and schedule on and off times as well?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@ccurrell this unit can turn off your TV for u

[@MarkARCorreia]

Reach out to me... I can give you more info on how you can set this up as a tourism kiosk.

[@robtaylor206]

Are you limited to the webpage url when clicking or the whole website domain? Can someone openly browse the internet?

[@DPCTechnology]

U can click and follow links but u have to put the beginning address in the settings field and then launch so it's not ur typical "browsing"

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Yes I want deeper please

[@pokeutopia]

Is this out yet?

[@DPCTechnology]

Yes

[@lklein25]

Video on creating content please!

[@DPCTechnology]

@@lklein25 putting in the pipeline

[@retro-junkie5741]

Got Damn they are $279 each and currently sold out. :(

[@udirt]

I guess for larger stuff the solutions like Samsungs are cheaper since you get multiple outputs, or can just buy the right screen that has it embedded. But for small env I would so love to use these.

[@jakobholzner]

why are you hiding the ip addresses at 03:02 ?

[@DPCTechnology]

My editor just hides them all. He's not technical so sometimes we over blur

[@3k3k3]

I am so confused.. what is this device?

[@DPCTechnology]

@@3k3k3 It's a display cast, it displays digital signage.

[@MrHennoGarvie]

This device seems very wasteful. Lots of ways to do this with various different hardware options for at least 5 years now. Never understand people who buy into the unifi system other than they have lots of money and dont like to fiddle at all. I mean home assistant and any android client would do exactly this for a lot cheaper, suppose business is different but its still plenty reliable.

[@DPCTechnology]

Yeah I review them all here. It's not the cheapest for sure but definitely a good stable option.

[@MrHennoGarvie]

@@DPCTechnology I can understand as a business that you want to prioritise stability, I just wish their gear was a bit cheaper so I could use it at home haha

[@chadgrant8870]

Lame. It should be able to also add cameras, so dumb

[@DPCTechnology]

@@chadgrant8870 that would be nice