UniFi Protect cameras

Supported devices: Device type; Camera; Floodlight; Smart sensor; Viewer; Smart chime; Relay; Siren; NVR; Camera - A camera entity for each active RTSPS quality (up to four: high, medium, low, and package). Only the highest-quality stream is enabled by default.; configuration sliders for Chime Type, Zoom Level, Microphone Sensitivity, and WDR Level; configuration switches Overlay Information, Smart Detections types, Status Light, HDR, High FPS mode, System Sounds; configuration text and select for LCD Screen for doorbells to either set custom messages or use predefined messages; Button - A …

Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23.

1. Inovelli Red (full house of them here, about 25 and couldn't be happier) 2. Unifi. Their mobile app sells it for me, the timeline playback is phenomenal. Integrates perfectly with HA. 3. Unifi. Not gonna do much better for hardware and you'd already have the NVR above 4. Ecobee. The only complaint is I wish I could use my own sensors instead of theirs. Integrate with HomeKit for local control. 5. Short term: Ring. Long term: Inovelli mmWave switches (Indiegogo is live) 6. No experience 7. No experience 8. No experience 9. Ring sensors w Alarmo. Mine are on the way (ordered them yesterday) …

Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.

… building a custom system with ZigBee sensors + HA + Alarmo. it's a time consuming project, but it's coming together. i've paired that alarm setup with UniFi networking + cameras (their app for cameras is great, but because i can, i have them running thru scrypted to show up in apple home). from my research with abode, they run on zigbee so you could get that for easier plug and play and then if/when you ahve time, you could customize things out further with HA.

Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.

If you’re already using UniFi gear, I personally can’t complain about the UniFi Protect ecosystem for its reliability and video camera picture quality. The integration with the UniFi Controller makes it easy to centrally manage everything. I’m not using currently using it, but their “AI” line of cameras provides for license plate recognition, and their latest software updates have introduced Facial Recognition. Remote access to your front door would be better served by a Smart Lock you can open remotely control than the actual doorbell itself. My read on UniFi Access is that it’s more …

Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.

Easy, make a local only Unifi account for home assistant, then add the Unifi Protect integration to home assistant. You can use the camerasfor motion, or the smart detection like person, package, car for ad other triggers in home assistant. If you have an AppleTV stream box you can install a video service called Scrypted to expose Unifi cameras to Homekit, and motion triggers will enable video PiP on AppleTV devices. Unifi is a great all-round SOHO IT ecosystem, networking, access, and surveillance. The other brand you'll hear a lot about here is Reolink, I have not used them, but they seem …

Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.

It's all local. No cloud This is really great. I went full Unifi and now regret it. Their motion detection is not configurable, won't be updated except when they feel like it, requires going through their centralized server, cameras are overpriced, the whole system is designed to lock me in, the company is getting more user-unfriendly by the day, etc. And Unifi is the best of the other options, which require subscription fees on top of all the lock in. Wish I had had a blueprint like this months ago to save all that money and future-proof my setup.

Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.

Link to docs for UniFi Protect about the stream source: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/unifiprotect#camera-streams

Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.