Ubiquiti Portal 4+

App is fine, could be WAY better

The Portal app is fine- it’s a genuinely pretty web view wrapper app. However, it could be so much more. The contents of the app are useful and more convenient than searching in Safari, but deeper integration would make this a 5 star app.

Please consider some of these ideas to increase personalization and cross-tab integration:

Store:
- add bookmarking to product pages
- add deeplink from store product pages to their specific Tech Specs tab page
- add push notifications as an option for back-in-stock product alerts

Tech Specs:
- Core problem: this tab is convenient, but it is too hard to *quickly* find the tech specs / doc pages for your exact model; adding some (re)discoverability features would 10x this tab
- add bookmarking to tech spec / doc pages, specifically so we can find those 4+ click deep docs again
- add folders for bookmarks, so we can group product docs by site/project/project planning/whatever
- add deeplink from tech spec / doc pages to a Store product listing page (if available)
- could even integrate with order history and prompt the user to bookmark docs for past and new purchases

The Community tab is great (it clearly has more native integration than the other tab). I haven’t used the AI tab.

Thank you for your work! I hope to see some of these features/concepts in the app in the future.

Pull Down to Refresh?

App is pretty useful for me to check releases but you used to be able to pull down to refresh but that hasn’t worked in a few months. I have to completely close the app and reopen it to force a refresh.

Then, it often forgets and clears which releases I’m interested in seeing and clears my EA check box as well. I have to go back in and reset all my filters.

Also, like others said, add a dark mode like all the other apps. I like to check the app in the mornings and I hate being blinded by it.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback. We've pushed out version 1.1.8 which should address the issue with clearing the checkboxes. Please reach out to us at mobile-support@ui.com if it still occurs, so we can provide assistance!

It is a “portal”

Like the name says, this is a portal to functionality I could find elsewhere, but it is a bit easier to find here. Likely I could achieve some of the convenience by creating a group of web bookmarks on my Home Screen. One “feature” I find very annoying is the fact that the app always returns to the Home Screen when I navigate away and then return to it. Super annoying since I often look at a spec and communicate something to another person and then come back to see more of the spec which has now disappeared and I have to navigate back to where I was…over and over.