UDMPRO-samba VS split-vpn

A quick google points me towards this Github project, with a method to make the UDMP's hard drive accesible via SMB. I couldn't find any info on using this in combination with Protect though. Something tells me UniFi wouldn't simply store any Protect recordings as .mp4 files in a naked folder tree on the hard disk...

Yes it is possible: https://github.com/thealpa/UDMPRO-samba

With Router side VPN it shows up in the DPI.

yes i as well think this is sad that such things are not passible "easy" through the frontend. you can look at https://github.com/peacey/split-vpn to see if you can get such working but its then not an out of the box solution again.

Honestly just use this, it works wonderfully with wireguard vpn providers and you can assign a specific subnet, VLAN, or interface to the VPN tunnel.

This is what I use. I have a wifi and connected to a separate vlan that routes through my openvpn connection provided by expressvpn. Any device connected to that wifi goes through the VPN connection. https://github.com/peacey/split-vpn

I use wireguard on the UDM Pro unofficially to route as a client, and here's some extensive performance testing I did. Typically, the UDMP/SE is perfectly able to saturate a 1 Gbps connection up and down through wireguard.