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.
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Cris, Would you mind providing a brief description of how you feed Unifi video into your dashboard?
Thanks!
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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.
I can work with that. Do I have to setup a virtual device or something like that to get a tile?
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.
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Thanks Cris. I really appreciate the reply. Looks far simpler than I was making it.
So far it’s not working but I’ve got the tile made as you described so I’ll keep tinkering.
Thanks again!!
Hmm. I’ve never seen that option before.
You have to go to your cameras IP address directly.
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.
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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
psql -U unifi-protect
then
SELECT "devicePassword" FROM nvrs;
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.
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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.
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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.
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Do you think it is possible to connect to Unifi Protect with 2.1.8 firmware?
Release notes...
Added optional flag to ignore SSL issues (ie: self signed certificates) with http calls (httpGet, httpPost, etc)
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I don't understand your question -- connect in what way?
Tell us more PLEASE!
how did you get an RTSP stream into the app?
