Anyone get anything integrated with Hubitat for these?
I bought a Synology NAS specifically because of the Surveillance Station software. NOWHERE in the description does it say I need to buy licenses for additional cameras. $50 per camera. Screw those guys. I just picked up a Unifi Cloud Key Gen2 Pro which has a 1TB hard drive and an integrated NVR. Yes, you have to use their cameras. Since I needed new cameras anyway, the cost difference was a wash and the Unifi Protect NVR interface is way better than the Synology one.
I was thinking of a few scenarios where an integration would be cool:
Motion sensing alerts from the cameras to trigger things
Automatically pipe the audio from the cams to the whole house audio system when someone walks up to the front door.
Automatically pause any playing video on TV's and display the cams
I’ve got the same gear, but I don’t think you’re going to be able to do much. It’s pretty locked down. So far, you might be able to get the RTSP stream hooked in, but everything else isn’t documented.
But let me know if you get anywhere with it! You can get UniFi video to run in a docker container on the synology nas. I was going to do that but got lazy and went cloudkey 2
This is my impression as well. It's a shame, but at the same time, it doesn't really make a difference in my use case because I don't really see much advantage to integrating the cameras with Hubitat. Great cameras and NVR (Cloud Key Gen 2 Pro), though.
In the end, if I get a motion alert, I can fire up the protect app in 10 seconds. Waiting for camera integration in home automation is an exercise in frustration.
If I get a motion alert, I can go to my dashboard and check what is going on, and turn on lights, etc. I have Unifi Protect also. This is using rtsp, and only works on the local network.
I would love to know the same thing. Been trying to figure out how to incorporate RTSP feeds without success so far. Not much info and this is the first successful implementation I’ve read about. Please share how you accomplished this!
You can't get a video feed to the Dashboard. What you can get is a still image and set it to refresh at 1 second intervals. Your camera must support something like a snapshot url which can be displayed using the Dashboard Link in a new dashboard tile. This only works for local access. It will not work for the Cloud Dashboards.
In your cameras settings you need to enable RTSP and get the IP address. Add the snap.jpeg at the end and put it in an image tile. 1 second refresh, and it only works when you are on your local network.
Ahh, got it. I've always managed the cameras via Unifi Protect and didn't realize there were settings not available that way.
So after a lot of fussing in trying to figure out the password to log into each camera directly I got it to work. Thank you for taking the time to note the steps.
I tried this and will add the steps to figure out the password for anyone else doing the same. See here -- just SSH into your cloudkey/NVR and obtain the password with
You can also just log into Unifi Protect and go to the settings page. Scroll to the bottom and under the Advanced section you will see "Device Password". Just click on 'Reveal" and it will show you the password used for all you cameras. the user name is UBNT.
What I'd really love to do with these is somehow take images with faces and automatically do face recognition via Azure or AWS, or license plate OCR via Azure or AWS. Then send that data back to HE so I have announcements like "Steve is at the front door" or "An unknown car pulled into the driveway."
This Unifi Protect setup is awesome. I'm SO happy with these, and I've tried a lot of different things over the past 10+ years. At one point I had several Lumenera cams that cost around $2k each (used them at work for a project and I got them for free). This setup is better.
Since this was probably on the wishlist for others who have already invested in Unifi cameras, it looks like Ubiquiti will soon sell a Wifi doorbell camera. This will up my interest in having some sort of integration with HE.
