What you actually need, what’s genuinely optional, and what UI Care is.
Hardware prices verified 16 July 2026. Ubiquiti pricing changes — we confirm current pricing on every quote. Prices are indicative CAD, all-in. Contact AVNFi for a current quote.
Ubiquiti lists a wall of accessories against every product. Some of them are the difference between a camera that’s installed properly and one that’s screwed to a soffit and hoped for. Some of them are $85 you didn’t need to spend.
This page separates the two.
About the prices below. These are the figures Ubiquiti lists against each product on its Canadian store, captured 2026-07-16, in CAD. Unlike the main hardware prices elsewhere on this wiki, we have not cart-verified each accessory line individually — treat them as indicative, and assume the memory surcharge may apply on top. “From” means the price is a starting figure that varies by length or variant. Your quote will carry the verified numbers.
Camera mounting
The most misunderstood category, because Ubiquiti sells four different mounts per camera and the product page doesn’t tell you which one your building needs.
Start here: every camera comes with a mount in the box. The one that ships with a G6 Turret screws to a flat surface and aims the camera. If your camera is going onto a clean, flat, dry soffit and the cable comes out of the wall right behind it — you need nothing from this section. That’s a lot of home installs.
The accessory mounts solve specific problems. Each one exists because of a situation:
| Accessory | Price (indicative) | What problem it solves | Must-have or nice-to-have? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junction Box | $65 (G6 Turret, G6 Bullet) · $70 (G6 Pro 360) · $39 (Doorbell Lite) | Gives the cable a sealed, weatherproof place to terminate behind the camera, and hides the slack. | Frequently a must-have outdoors. See below. |
| Arm Mount | $65 (G6 Turret, G6 Dome, G6 Pro 360) · $39 (U7 Pro AP) | Gets the camera out from under a deep soffit or eave so it can actually see down and out, instead of staring at your own overhang. | Must-have when the geometry demands it. Otherwise, no. |
| Dual Mount | $85 (G6 Turret, G6 Dome, G6 Bullet, G6 Pro 360) | Two cameras on one mounting point, one location. | Nice-to-have. Situational — a corner watching two directions. |
| Gang Box Mounting Plate | $55 (G6 Turret, G6 Bullet) · $27 (Doorbell Lite) | Mounts the camera to a standard electrical gang box already in the wall. | Must-have if that’s what’s in your wall. Otherwise irrelevant. |
| Flush Mount | $55 (G6 Dome, G6 Pro 360) | Recesses the camera into the ceiling so it sits flat rather than hanging. | Nice-to-have. Aesthetic, and genuinely nice in a finished ceiling. |
| Pendant Mount / Flush Mount (G6 180) | $41 each | Drops the 180 from a ceiling, or sets it flush into one. | Situational must-have — depends entirely on the ceiling. |
| Weather Shield (G6 Dome) | $41 | A hood over the dome. Keeps rain and snow off the bubble. | Worth it on an exposed dome. See below. |
The three that are genuinely must-haves, and when
Junction box — outdoors, most of the time. The camera’s own mount is weather-rated; the cable termination behind it is where water gets in, and water gets in eventually. A junction box gives the connection a sealed cavity and somewhere to coil the slack you’ll want the day someone re-aims the camera. On a Calgary exterior — freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw, all winter — this is the accessory we’d argue for hardest. Indoors, on a dry ceiling, it’s usually unnecessary.
Arm mount — when the soffit is deep. This one’s pure geometry, and you can check it yourself: stand where the camera will go and look where it needs to see. If your own eave is in the way, the arm mount is not optional — it’s the difference between a camera that works and an expensive picture of your soffit. If there’s a clear line, skip it.
Weather shield on a dome — if it’s exposed. A dome’s bubble sits in front of the lens, and anything on the bubble is in the shot: rain spots, snow, spider webs. Under a protected eave, unnecessary. On an exposed wall taking weather straight on, it earns its $41 and keeps you off a ladder.
Everything else in that table is situational. If someone puts a dual mount on a quote and there’s one camera at that location, ask why.
Outdoor Ethernet surge protection
$17 per unit. Listed against the G6 Turret, G6 Dome, G6 Bullet, G6 180, G6 Pro 360, and the U7 Pro Outdoor access point.
What it does: a surge on the network cable — from a nearby lightning strike, most often — travels down that cable into whatever it’s plugged into. The device at the far end is a camera. The device at the near end is your switch, and through it, everything else on the network. A surge protector sits in the path and takes the hit instead.
When it’s genuinely needed
Yes, spec it:
- Any cable that runs outside the building envelope — pole to building, building to garage, building to shop, across a yard.
- Any camera or access point on a roofline, a mast, a pole, or a detached structure.
- Any run where the cable is exposed rather than buried between structures.
No, skip it:
- A camera under a soffit whose cable goes straight through the wall behind it into a heated building. That cable never leaves the envelope. The $17 buys nothing.
The honest framing
A camera under an eave isn’t the case. A camera on a pole at the end of a yard, on a cable running back to the house, absolutely is — and $17 against the switch it’s plugged into is not a close call.
One caveat, stated plainly: surge protection is protection, not a guarantee. A direct strike does what a direct strike does. This reduces the odds and reduces the damage. It doesn’t promise anything, and anyone who tells you it does is overselling a $17 part. And note it’s per cable, both ends on a long inter-building run — protecting one end of a run between two buildings protects one building.
Patch cables
Cheap, unglamorous, and the thing that most often turns into a callout.
| Cable | Price (indicative) | Use |
|---|---|---|
| UniFi Patch Cable | from $2.50 | Indoors. Switch to patch panel, switch to device. |
| UniFi Premium Patch Cable | from $7 | Indoors, where you want the better build. |
| UniFi Patch Cable Outdoor | from $5.50 | Outdoor-rated jacket. Listed against every outdoor G6 camera. |
| UniFi Etherlighting Patch Cable | from $5.50 | Listed against the Doorbell Lite. Lights up along its length — useful when you’re tracing which cable is which in a full rack. |
The one that matters: outdoor cable in outdoor places. UV and freeze-thaw destroy an indoor jacket. It doesn’t fail on install day — it fails in year two, in a wall, and finding out costs vastly more than the $3 difference. Use outdoor-rated cable outdoors. That’s not an upsell, it’s the correct part.
Also worth knowing: patch cables are for the ends of a run — rack to switch, switch to device. The cable inside your walls is structured cable, not patch cable, and it’s a different product, priced with the install rather than from this list.
PoE adapters and injectors
The rule from What Works With What: every camera, access point and door reader needs a PoE port. A PoE adapter is what you use when you don’t have one.
| Adapter | Price (indicative) | Listed against |
|---|---|---|
| PoE+ Adapter (30W) | $20 | U7 Pro |
| 2.5G PoE+ Adapter (30W) | $27 | U7 Pro Wall, U7 Lite, U7 In-Wall |
| 10G PoE++ Adapter (60W) | $55 | U7 Pro XG |
When an adapter is the right answer: one device, far from everything, and running it back to a PoE switch would mean a cable pull that costs more than the whole job. One access point in a detached garage with a plain network drop and a power socket. That’s a legitimate use, and the adapter is the cheap, correct fix.
When it isn’t: more than about two of them. A pile of adapters is a pile of wall warts, each one a thing that can be unplugged by someone who needed the socket, and none of them visible to your controller when they fail. A PoE switch is cheaper per port, tidier, and tells you when something stops drawing power.
Two things worth knowing before you buy an adapter:
- The G6 Instant’s PoE-to-USB-C adapter is not included. It ships with a USB power adapter for a wall socket. If you’re planning to PoE it, that’s a separate part — and it’s a common surprise.
- Check the class, not just the wattage. Door hubs need PoE++ (UA-Hub-Door up to 50W, UA-Hub-Gate up to 60W). A PoE+ adapter won’t run one at any budget — the class is a ceiling, not a suggestion. See Switches and PoE.
Racks, stands and mounts
| Item | Price (indicative) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Universal Table Stand | $41 | Listed against USW-Ultra and USW-Flex-Mini. Stands a small switch upright on a desk instead of leaving it loose behind one. |
| DIN Rail Mount | $12.50 | Listed against USW-Ultra. For an electrical panel or industrial enclosure. |
| Table Stand (U7 Pro Wall) | $55 | Stands the AP on a surface. |
| Paintable Cover | $49 (U7 Pro) · $39 (U7 Pro Wall) | Paint the AP to match the ceiling. Aesthetic, and effective. |
| Paintable Flush Mount (U7 Pro Wall) | $55 | Recesses the AP into the wall. |
| Cover (G4 Doorbell Pro) | $39 | Finish/colour. |
On actual racks: if you’re buying a UDM-Pro, a UDM-Pro-Max, a UDM-Beast, a UNVR or a USW-Pro-24-PoE, those are rack-mount products and they need somewhere to live. Not a shelf, not the floor of a cupboard — a rack, with airflow, out of the way of feet and vacuum cleaners.
Racks are not Ubiquiti products and aren’t in our verified price data. They’re priced at source and appear on your quote as their own line, marked as such. The size depends on what’s going in it, plus room to grow — this is a design question rather than a shopping one.
Optical modules and direct-attach cables (10G DAC from $19, SFP+ to RJ45 10GbE $85, 10G multi-mode from $28, 10G single-mode from $120, 25G DAC from $31, 25G single-mode $170) are for linking switches and gateways to each other at speed. Only relevant if you have something to link at 10G or better — most homes and small offices don’t, and shouldn’t be sold one.
UPS — battery backup
UPS-2U: $431 all-in ($400 base + $31 memory surcharge — derived, not cart-verified; read the cart before quoting). ⚠️ Sold Out as of 2026-07-16, with no like-for-like substitute in the range.
What it’s for, and it’s not what most people think. The obvious benefit — cameras keep recording through a power cut — is real but secondary. The main event is a graceful shutdown.
An NVR is a computer writing continuously to a spinning drive. Cut its power mid-write and you risk the recording, the database that indexes it, and occasionally the drive. A UPS gives it enough runtime to notice the power is gone and shut itself down properly, which is exactly the thing that protects the footage you bought the system for.
⚠️ One catch worth knowing before you buy: Graceful Shutdown for the UNVR and UNAS requires UniFi OS 4.4.3 or higher. On older firmware you have a UPS that provides runtime but won’t cleanly shut the recorder down — which is most of the point. Check the firmware, or have it checked.
Worth it when: you have a recorder with spinning drives and a site where power is unreliable, or where the footage genuinely matters. Less compelling when: it’s a small system, power is stable, and the recorder is a gateway with a small SSD.
Other odds and ends
| Item | Price (indicative) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| WiFi Smart Chime | $79 | Doorbell chime over Wi-Fi. No cable to pull. |
| PoE Smart Chime (UACC-Chime-PoE) | $105 | Same job, on PoE. Note: it consumes a PoE port — count it in your port arithmetic, people forget. |
| Protect Viewport | $269 | Puts a live camera wall on a display without a PC behind it. Listed against the UNVR. |
| High Capacity microSD Card | from $99 (G6 180) · from $70 (G6 Pro 360) | On-camera storage. Not a substitute for a recorder — a supplement to one. |
| Access Card | from $43 | Door access credentials. Priced per pack; count your people, not your doors. |
| Access Button | $49 | Listed against UA-Ultra. A request-to-exit button. Not a substitute for mechanical egress — see What Works With What, Rule 7. |
| G4 Doorbell Pro AC Adapter | $40 | The G4 Doorbell Pro is not PoE — it needs an AC transformer or USB-C. If there’s no doorbell transformer at the door already, this is a must-have, not an accessory. |
One general note on displays: if you’re specifying a screen for a camera wall in a commercial building, consumer TVs carry consumer warranties that don’t cover commercial-premises use. Use a commercial-rated display, or the Protect Viewport. It’s the kind of exclusion nobody reads until they claim.
UI Care
What it is
UI Care is Ubiquiti’s extended coverage. Three things about it that matter:
- It’s a one-time cost. Not a subscription. Not monthly. You pay once, at purchase.
- It’s per device. Each unit is covered separately. Ten cameras means ten decisions, not one.
- It extends coverage to 5 years on the device it’s attached to.
It is not a subscription and there is no subscription. UniFi’s no-monthly-fee model is intact — UI Care is a one-time purchase that sits alongside it. Nothing on your system stops working without it.
Verified prices (CAD)
| Device | Device price | UI Care | As % of device |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNVR (recorder) | $430 all-in | $85 | ~20% |
| UNAS-Pro (network storage) | $771 all-in | $140 | ~18% |
| U7-Pro (access point) | $257 all-in | $43 | ~17% |
| G6 Turret (camera) | $307 all-in | $55 | ~18% |
Those four are the ones in our verified data. For anything else, we’ll price it live.
An honest take on when it’s worth it
We’re not going to tell you to blanket-buy it, and we’re not going to tell you to skip it. It depends on the device, and the pattern is clearer than you’d expect.
Where it earns its money:
- The recorder. The UNVR is a single point of failure for every camera you own. If it dies, you have no video — from any of them — until it’s replaced. $85 against that is the easiest yes on the list, and it’s the one we’d argue for.
- Network storage. Same logic. The UNAS-Pro holds things you’d genuinely mind losing.
- Anything genuinely hard to get to. A camera on a roofline needing a lift, or an AP in a ceiling that has since been finished over — where the labour to replace it dwarfs the hardware.
- Sites where downtime actually costs. If a dead access point means a business stops taking payments, the maths isn’t about the AP.
Where it’s a harder sell:
- Individual cameras in a large array. With twelve cameras, one failure is one blind spot for a week, not a system outage. $55 × 12 = $660 — that’s a real number, and it’s most of a thirteenth camera plus a spare on the shelf. Buying a spare camera is often the better version of the same insurance, because it also covers the failures a warranty doesn’t: accidental damage, a truck reversing into a post, someone’s ladder.
- Cheap, accessible, easily replaced devices. A $151 access point at head height in an office. Swapping it is twenty minutes.
- Anywhere you already keep spares.
The rule of thumb we’d offer:
Cover the single points of failure. Think twice about the redundant ones.
One recorder, no backup, everything depends on it → cover it. One of twelve cameras, all doing the same job → probably not, and put the money into a spare instead.
And the disclosure that belongs here: UI Care is roughly 17–20% of the device price on every example we’ve verified. It’s not a rounding error, and across a full build it’s a meaningful line. Which is precisely why it’s worth deciding per device rather than ticking a box across the whole order.
The honest summary
Must-have, most of the time:
- Junction boxes on outdoor cameras — Calgary weather makes the case.
- Arm mounts where the soffit is in the way. Pure geometry — go and look.
- Outdoor-rated patch cable anywhere outdoors. The correct part, not an upsell.
- Surge protection on any cable leaving the building envelope.
- A rack, if you’re buying rack-mount gear.
- The G4 Doorbell Pro’s AC adapter, if there’s no transformer at the door.
- A surveillance-rated CMR drive — not on this page, because it’s not an accessory. It’s not optional either. See What Works With What.
Nice-to-have:
- Flush mounts, paintable covers, weather shields on protected domes, table stands, dual mounts, Etherlighting. All genuinely nice. None of them make the system work.
It depends:
- UI Care — per device, not per order. Cover what can’t fail.
- UPS — worth it for a recorder that matters, if the firmware supports graceful shutdown.
- PoE adapters — right for one or two devices, wrong as a strategy.
- Optical modules and DACs — only if you have something to link at 10G.
If it’s on a quote from us and you can’t see why, ask. A good answer takes ten seconds and you’re entitled to it.
Related
- What Works With What — the rules these accessories serve
- Switches and PoE — ports, watts and classes
- Choosing Cameras — what’s going on the mount
- Pricing — the memory surcharge, and why our number differs from the store’s
- Storage and Retention — drives, which are never an accessory
Accessory prices indicative, captured 2026-07-16, CAD, and not individually cart-verified — your quote carries the confirmed numbers. Which mounts your building actually needs is a question best answered standing under the soffit with a ladder. AVNFi will bring the ladder.