FYI for those who struggles to get cameras autodetected - you can add them manually by IP instead. The simple adopt option only looks in the same VLAN. Make sure to add the ONVIF port at the end of the IP :8000. Press question mark in top right corner and chose "advance adoption" option.
good early start. motion, human actions and PTZ are basic need to have. Let's see when these are released in future versions. Not getting rid of my Geovision NVR yet.
not enough to make me move away from surveillance statiom with 8 cameras, but looking foward to seeing them add some basic O.N.V.I.F (not said On-Viv lol) profile features, hopefully in the next year it will have more features....
I've moved house and my old setup with Qnap was never satisfactory. With this update i can adopt my Reolink cameras to my UDM Pro. I'm also not that bothered by the PTZ not working, i can still use the Reolink app for interaction.
Well done Ubiquiti for opening up to the rest of the world.... Using 3rd party Onvif in protect may never be perfect however I think as time goes on there will be some models that will work perfectly. Att: Synology.. I think its time to put an end to your overpriced extra camera licenses... I can tell you I won't be purchasing anymore in the future.
from my small testing, the udm-pro and the cameras need to be on the same network. so if you segregated your cameras to a different network, then this will not work.
This sounds awesome - I just realized that I can activate UniFi Protect on my new UniFi Cloud Gateway Max - but wonder if it is beefy anough for my 8 cameras (mixed 1080, 1440 and 4K) without affecting the rest of the performance.
This is great to see, however the amount of developer time to maintain ONVIF and user reported issues might start to add up if this makes production, This is why I was never that bothered by the cost of the surveillance station licenses, Synology had a way to report issues, and I was seeing updates to the supported cameras and bug fixes , that kind of ongoing support costs time
Some really great camera brands, like HIKVision, etc. have ONVIF by default. This is a great opportunity for people who are converting networks set where they were using solid product before hand and want the features of UniFi to keep their infrastructure cohesive, as it is often the NVR functionality that is.. let's say "it sucks" even the best ones aren't great
@@J_Madison I have tried two black and one white POE versions and both drop audio daily forcing a reboot to recover audio. Sometimes the audio does not drop. Instead it’s a lovely loud screeching beep until it’s rebooted. I’m in Phoenix AZ Do you use the Wifi version?
Thanks for supporting us bud! Massively appreciated! Massively appreciated when people help me and Eddie keep doing what we do here. Keep being bloody brilliant mate!
I was hoping to stop having to use my camera server/software and use Protect instead, but for some reason most of my cameras have black video when I adopt them for some reason. I can't figure it out.
Reo link has onvif disabled by default As soon as ubiquiti announced onvif support, I bought the Reolink duo 3. I had to install the Reolink software to turn on onvif. After that unifi protect recognized the duo 3. I adopted the camera, and the stream wouldn't come up right away. It would come up with the high resolution stream, so I forced UniFi protect to only use The high resolution stream. It's still doesn't show up in the multi-view on the unified protect app, most of the time. But if I let the app sit open on my phone for a little while it will show that camera stream. But if I open that camera in the protect app it will show the stream.
My takeaway is this: Currently, if you have a fairly basic setup for non-Unify cameras, meaning simple straightforward cameras, no special features or notifications needed, just a raw feed from fixed ONVIF cameras that needs to be recorded, you're saying that pretty much works fine, on the current version? (Obviously with the understanding that some specific cameras may be wonkier than others) Would anyone disagree with that? I'm tempted to cut over, so I can give my Hikvision NVR the heave-ho, if the only downside is no special controls (which I don't use, for my Hik setup, since it's completely isolated to my local network). Everything that I need notifications and fancy is already on UniFi cameras. But it would be great to have the two consolidated into the one more accessible one.
Good videos! Keep them coming. Nice background, but I think it will be better with more black back there. You have a "to white skin" and the contrast is bad. Just my opinion! Thanks.
I'll be moving all my H.265 cameras to UniFi and all my new ones as well from now on. I have 8 paid-for camera licenses + 5 NAS systems (with 2 cameras each) which I will happily consolidate into Unifi and TrueNAS, leaving just one Synology running. I have completely lost my confidence with them withdrawing functionality from a product I have paid for. When my ageing Synology wifi system comes up for replacement, UniFi wifi will be the likely choice now because by then I will already have bought into the Unifi ecosystem which seems to be actively under development. I know Unify isn't perfect but I'm thoroughly cheesed off with Synology right now. (h.265 + obsoleting my more powerful but 'old' rackmount NAS systems + broken docker implementation (still!) + wifi system abandonware + proprietary HDD nonsense etc etc etc) Apologies for the rant, I'm so glad there is choice now.
Hooked up a bunch of different HikVision Cameras - you need to ADD a new user under the ONVIF settings, the username/password to log onto the camera web interface DIDN'T WORK. Give the new account Operator or Media rights are fine, you don't need to give it admin rights. You also get zero of the cameras features inside of Protect, which was expected,be nice though ;)
good video, thanks. i put my udm on 192.168.1 but my cameras i made a extra network under VLAN with 192.168.3 , Unifi Protect doesn't see these cameras. do you know why ?
@@nascompares If I had my own ecosystem like Unifi, I would not include ONVIF if I had a choice. Standards are never "standard" especially in this modern economy. The camera manufacturer might claim ONVIF conformance but, decide to skip going through the ONVIF conformation process. If said companies "False Conformance" camera profile causes issues in Unifi Protect, which company is going to (initially) get the calls to tech support and the blame?
I get what you are saying, but what if you have an inherited surveillance system on a new building, or migrating from an existing surveillance setup with cameras already in place? UniFi supporting onvif, even marginally, at least allows a user/business to gradually migrate over and spread the costs, surely?
@@nascompares That is exactly why Ubiquiti has started supporting ONVIF cameras. I doubt seriously that you will get full support of these non-ubiquity cameras in Protect application. Ubiquiti wants you to buy their cameras. But like you said, if a client already has invested in a different brand of cameras and had to replace all of them day 1, they would be very hesitant about switching over to UniFi. This will allow them to slowly transition over to all Ubiquiti cameras.
@@nascompares I always try to look at these issues from both the manufacturer and the consumers perspective. ABSOLUTELY this is a win for the user. Choice wins every time. On the other hand, how much bandwidth is Ubiquiti going to have to expend explaining to the user gradually migrating their cameras that the UI quirks (or crash) in Protect is not their fault but the fault of "insert Chinese Camera Manufacturer here." I want Ubiquiti to keep making great gear and I hope they have the staff to deal with this in the future.
So glad there are better offerings than synologys crappy under powered NAS devices and over priced licensing nonsense, not to mention they’re “supported hardware” fiasco. Goodby synology…..
I bought an nvr pro to test, and I found several issues. #1 All the hard drives need to be the same capacity. Luckily, I had 7x 2tb drives floating around. Unfortunatly, I could not use my mix of 7 security drives of varying capacity. #2 There is no hdmi output. They make a viewport, but it's antiquated garbage. It is supposed to allow you to watch 3x 4k cams. I could only get 1x 4k cams to display before it runs out of resources. The protect app appears to be easy to use hut I had great difficulty finding incidents as there is no way to scroll through footage except to use your finger and doing that slowly enough with a non unifi camera was frustrating. (It doesn't show motion events, plus I doubt it will ever) Lastly, I do not believe that they are going to make this usable for non unifi cameras. They are simply going to allow you to record in the hopes you will get frustrated and just start swapping out cameras for theirs. I'm going to keep mine until Christmas, but I'm still using blue Iris on a pc with a nice video card.
Ubiquity cameras are overpriced and generally have poor video quality when compared to most modern 4k cameras. Even some reolink cameras which are 1/3 the price have better performance. The hook up channel has now done 2 really good breakdowns showing quality.
FYI for those who struggles to get cameras autodetected - you can add them manually by IP instead. The simple adopt option only looks in the same VLAN. Make sure to add the ONVIF port at the end of the IP :8000. Press question mark in top right corner and chose "advance adoption" option.
A step in the right direction, now I can justify buying a 4bay NVR, or why not, the Pro. Good review with the good, the bad, and the possibilities.
good early start. motion, human actions and PTZ are basic need to have. Let's see when these are released in future versions. Not getting rid of my Geovision NVR yet.
Very exciting and very great mini review!
not enough to make me move away from surveillance statiom with 8 cameras, but looking foward to seeing them add some basic O.N.V.I.F (not said On-Viv lol) profile features, hopefully in the next year it will have more features....
I've moved house and my old setup with Qnap was never satisfactory. With this update i can adopt my Reolink cameras to my UDM Pro.
I'm also not that bothered by the PTZ not working, i can still use the Reolink app for interaction.
How do events work here? Will unifi do that and is it 'smart'
Well done Ubiquiti for opening up to the rest of the world.... Using 3rd party Onvif in protect may never be perfect however I think as time goes on there will be some models that will work perfectly.
Att: Synology.. I think its time to put an end to your overpriced extra camera licenses... I can tell you I won't be purchasing anymore in the future.
I'd love if UniFi would also acknowledge the existence of other managed switches by adopting/adding third party devices via SNMP.
Unifi have said this is only the start of ONVIF support for Protect so they seem to be wanting to add more later down the line
yeesss. now i can slowly start to order my unifi devices and integrate my foscam cameras. Unifi is a brilliant system
N'oice!
version 5.0.33 just popped up on mine for official release
Hi, could you please try to put one of your cameras in a different VLAN ?
from my small testing, the udm-pro and the cameras need to be on the same network. so if you segregated your cameras to a different network, then this will not work.
This sounds awesome - I just realized that I can activate UniFi Protect on my new UniFi Cloud Gateway Max - but wonder if it is beefy anough for my 8 cameras (mixed 1080, 1440 and 4K) without affecting the rest of the performance.
This is great to see, however the amount of developer time to maintain ONVIF and user reported issues might start to add up if this makes production, This is why I was never that bothered by the cost of the surveillance station licenses, Synology had a way to report issues, and I was seeing updates to the supported cameras and bug fixes , that kind of ongoing support costs time
Some really great camera brands, like HIKVision, etc. have ONVIF by default. This is a great opportunity for people who are converting networks set where they were using solid product before hand and want the features of UniFi to keep their infrastructure cohesive, as it is often the NVR functionality that is.. let's say "it sucks" even the best ones aren't great
How about the Reolink Doorbell. The Unifi G4 Pro stinks in hot climates. The Reolink has a MUCH night thermal threshold. Almost 30f higher atcually
Does that matter? I use the g4 pro doorbell in the middle of the desert with zero issues.
@@J_Madison I have tried two black and one white POE versions and both drop audio daily forcing a reboot to recover audio. Sometimes the audio does not drop. Instead it’s a lovely loud screeching beep until it’s rebooted.
I’m in Phoenix AZ
Do you use the Wifi version?
I hope they give the option to input ports for onvif, also to let us set motion detection.
In Protect 5.0.35 to set ip:port when doing manual adoption. I did not however manage to get motion detection working.
Does Unifi nvr supports multi lens cameras? I'm on the fence considering buying it but have 3 lens axis camera. I wonder how this would work
With onvif support, I'm seeing a future where unifi will be selling a lot of NVRs. Their NVR seems to be a really good product.
Thanks!
Thanks for supporting us bud! Massively appreciated! Massively appreciated when people help me and Eddie keep doing what we do here. Keep being bloody brilliant mate!
I was hoping to stop having to use my camera server/software and use Protect instead, but for some reason most of my cameras have black video when I adopt them for some reason. I can't figure it out.
did you make sure you were not on the new x265 settings it seems the current hardware has problems running at that and doing anything else.
Reo link has onvif disabled by default
As soon as ubiquiti announced onvif support, I bought the Reolink duo 3. I had to install the Reolink software to turn on onvif. After that unifi protect recognized the duo 3. I adopted the camera, and the stream wouldn't come up right away. It would come up with the high resolution stream, so I forced UniFi protect to only use The high resolution stream. It's still doesn't show up in the multi-view on the unified protect app, most of the time. But if I let the app sit open on my phone for a little while it will show that camera stream. But if I open that camera in the protect app it will show the stream.
Did I see it correctly that your were able to turn on motion detections on 3rd onviv cameras?
My takeaway is this: Currently, if you have a fairly basic setup for non-Unify cameras, meaning simple straightforward cameras, no special features or notifications needed, just a raw feed from fixed ONVIF cameras that needs to be recorded, you're saying that pretty much works fine, on the current version? (Obviously with the understanding that some specific cameras may be wonkier than others)
Would anyone disagree with that? I'm tempted to cut over, so I can give my Hikvision NVR the heave-ho, if the only downside is no special controls (which I don't use, for my Hik setup, since it's completely isolated to my local network). Everything that I need notifications and fancy is already on UniFi cameras. But it would be great to have the two consolidated into the one more accessible one.
Does Aqara Smart Video Doorbell G4 have ONVIF, RTSP protocol ?
Good videos! Keep them coming.
Nice background, but I think it will be better with more black back there. You have a "to white skin" and the contrast is bad. Just my opinion! Thanks.
I'll be moving all my H.265 cameras to UniFi and all my new ones as well from now on. I have 8 paid-for camera licenses + 5 NAS systems (with 2 cameras each) which I will happily consolidate into Unifi and TrueNAS, leaving just one Synology running. I have completely lost my confidence with them withdrawing functionality from a product I have paid for. When my ageing Synology wifi system comes up for replacement, UniFi wifi will be the likely choice now because by then I will already have bought into the Unifi ecosystem which seems to be actively under development. I know Unify isn't perfect but I'm thoroughly cheesed off with Synology right now. (h.265 + obsoleting my more powerful but 'old' rackmount NAS systems + broken docker implementation (still!) + wifi system abandonware + proprietary HDD nonsense etc etc etc) Apologies for the rant, I'm so glad there is choice now.
Do you think tapo camera works too?
They don't work at the moment. I have 5 of them, they can be accepted with right credentials, but no image is displayed and they keep rebooting.
New studio? :)
Slower frame rate maybe because unifi is using a substream for the dashboard view. Most substreams have a much lower frame rate.
How do you ipdate the firmwear in those onvif cameras ?
Manually, in the camera itself.
Hooked up a bunch of different HikVision Cameras - you need to ADD a new user under the ONVIF settings, the username/password to log onto the camera web interface DIDN'T WORK. Give the new account Operator or Media rights are fine, you don't need to give it admin rights. You also get zero of the cameras features inside of Protect, which was expected,be nice though ;)
So if we give admin right ? Can still able to adopt ?
Yes @@iamroxisa
good video, thanks. i put my udm on 192.168.1 but my cameras i made a extra network under VLAN with 192.168.3 , Unifi Protect doesn't see these cameras. do you know why ?
Subnet issue
@@jakerules04 Do you have any solution ? I'm facing the same issue. I played with the firewall rules, without success. Thank you.
That's so crazy they don't have onvif on by default
Better late than never, I guess...
@@nascompares If I had my own ecosystem like Unifi, I would not include ONVIF if I had a choice.
Standards are never "standard" especially in this modern economy. The camera manufacturer might claim ONVIF conformance but, decide to skip going through the ONVIF conformation process.
If said companies "False Conformance" camera profile causes issues in Unifi Protect, which company is going to (initially) get the calls to tech support and the blame?
I get what you are saying, but what if you have an inherited surveillance system on a new building, or migrating from an existing surveillance setup with cameras already in place? UniFi supporting onvif, even marginally, at least allows a user/business to gradually migrate over and spread the costs, surely?
@@nascompares That is exactly why Ubiquiti has started supporting ONVIF cameras. I doubt seriously that you will get full support of these non-ubiquity cameras in Protect application. Ubiquiti wants you to buy their cameras. But like you said, if a client already has invested in a different brand of cameras and had to replace all of them day 1, they would be very hesitant about switching over to UniFi. This will allow them to slowly transition over to all Ubiquiti cameras.
@@nascompares I always try to look at these issues from both the manufacturer and the consumers perspective. ABSOLUTELY this is a win for the user. Choice wins every time.
On the other hand, how much bandwidth is Ubiquiti going to have to expend explaining to the user gradually migrating their cameras that the UI quirks (or crash) in Protect is not their fault but the fault of "insert Chinese Camera Manufacturer here."
I want Ubiquiti to keep making great gear and I hope they have the staff to deal with this in the future.
No seagulls such a let down
So glad there are better offerings than synologys crappy under powered NAS devices and over priced licensing nonsense, not to mention they’re “supported hardware” fiasco. Goodby synology…..
I bought an nvr pro to test, and I found several issues. #1 All the hard drives need to be the same capacity. Luckily, I had 7x 2tb drives floating around. Unfortunatly, I could not use my mix of 7 security drives of varying capacity.
#2 There is no hdmi output. They make a viewport, but it's antiquated garbage. It is supposed to allow you to watch 3x 4k cams. I could only get 1x 4k cams to display before it runs out of resources.
The protect app appears to be easy to use hut I had great difficulty finding incidents as there is no way to scroll through footage except to use your finger and doing that slowly enough with a non unifi camera was frustrating. (It doesn't show motion events, plus I doubt it will ever)
Lastly, I do not believe that they are going to make this usable for non unifi cameras. They are simply going to allow you to record in the hopes you will get frustrated and just start swapping out cameras for theirs. I'm going to keep mine until Christmas, but I'm still using blue Iris on a pc with a nice video card.
Ubiquity cameras are overpriced and generally have poor video quality when compared to most modern 4k cameras. Even some reolink cameras which are 1/3 the price have better performance. The hook up channel has now done 2 really good breakdowns showing quality.