Upgrade Your UniFi Home! - How to Bring UniFi Protect into Apple HomeKit

[@ronnyrrr]

Just sorted this out for my set up - thank you! Worth mentioning, you need to enable RTSP under each camera you wish to view. Unifi Protect > "Camera" > Settings > Advanced > enable RTSP

[@realjredecop]

Thanks for this! Mine wasn't working but this was the fix.

[@joshwaggener4200]

Awesome!! Just what I needed after an afternoon of frustration! Thanks!

[@grantd8183]

This absolutely changes everything for me. I'm really excited to try this. Thanks for sharing!

[@SpaceRexWill]

It works super well!

[@rwrayrwray]

Any safety privacy concerns? Since HomePage has access to the cameras

[@trajanparker]

Outstanding!!! Thank you. I'v ben trying to do this for a long time .. Working well Thank you!

[@ianthediver2541]

Thank you for the video. The install documents say "Important: you will need a working ffmpeg installation for homebridge-unifi-protect to work correctly. To make installation more convenient, this plugin uses ffmpeg-for-homebridge which provides prebuilt versions of ffmpeg for some of the more popular platforms". I'm guessing that (as far as you know) the plugin installs ffmpeg-for-homebridge, since you don't mention this. Can you confirm please ?

[@VistaDefenseTrainingMedia]

Fantastic plugin, RTSPS on each camera Settings/Advanced, may need to be turned on.

[@joeali3568]

not working for me i believe unifi console i need to create a rule, can you help me with that, I'm getting a message controller api connection terminated

[@fabian3265]

hi. The installation and all worked, and i see my cameras in homekit, but homekit sas that hte cameras are off. how do i turn them on? on the unify side, everything is okay ofcourse and i can see the cameras yours

[@saulgoodman602]

How quickly does your Apple TV pop up your cameras?

[@stuartnelson2948]

Does the fingerprint scanner work with homebridge and could I use it to automate opening my current HomeKit smart lock?

[@saulgoodman602]

Is the ingratiation still working well?

[@MrTomo89]

love your videos, I have a dream router and a g5 bullet love the camera but need it in home kit like your doorbell. thinking of getting a Synology to run Homebridge and a Plex server . Can I run homebridge on my MacBook m1 to test home bridge integration before pulling the trigger on the Synology

[@joshuacollier4178]

Excellent video as usual! I sincerely appreciate all your help with unifi and synology. However, is it possible to backup recorded footage from unifi protect to a synology offsite? Nothing is on youtube about this and I'm not 100% sure it's possible. Thanks again.

[@SpaceRexWill]

Not that I know of.

[@nappynad]

Does it record to iCloud Severe Video, or just to UniFi HD? Thanks!

[@aklem001]

I've been using this for a while. It's great.

[@SpaceRexWill]

I was absolutely blown away by how much the author put into this plug in

[@Polkster13]

Have you tried Scrypted?

[@m4nc1n1]

I will have to try this

[@sephtonj]

Your videos are pretty well detailed, have you tried any Alexa integration for this? I'd like doorbell notifications to announce via Alexa but docs online are poor for this.

[@FabioAlves7]

Hi, thanks for the video. The G4 Pro has 2 cameras, correct? So what about the bottom "package" camera? How does that work with Homebridge and HomeKit? And, do you get the package detection notifications on HomeKit like you do on Unify? I'm asking because I'm considering this camera over others and I'm pretty deep into Apple Ecosystem right now. Thanks

[@lowshots5305]

i'll actually use it side by side as iw ant recording and detection to be done on the udm and not rely on icloud etc. for my security, so notifications, etc. will be set up through the protect app, but for livestreaming, doorbell interaction, etc. everything will run smoothly through homekit

[@CasperAndrea]

Great! It works! Thanks

[@titothomas9965]

hi ,myself tito from uk I managed to connect unified protect with apple come through home bridge .but one problem I am facing is in my umm pro I have different networks for example .IOT FOR SMART PRODUCTS AND CAM FOR CAMERAS AND DEFAULT FOR THE UDM ITSELT AND SWITCHES AND HUBS ..WHEN I KEEP MY HOME BRIDGE IN MAIN DEFAULT NETWORK WHICH IS SAME WITH UDM PRO AND IF I CONECT MY IPAD TO ADMIN WIFI THEN I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE CAMERA THROUGH THE HOME APP BUT I HAVE ANOTHER WIFI GROUP WHICH IS JUST FOR SMART PRODUCTS AND IOT DEVICES BUT NO ACESS TO THE DEFAULT NETWORK IF I KEEP MY IPAD TO CONECT TO THIS NETWORK NOTHING COMES UP IN THE HOME APP AND IT SHOWS CAMERA NOT RESPONDING CAN YOU DO A VIDEO THAT SHOWS HOW TO CONFIG THE UDM PRO WITH DIFFERENT NETWORKS AND CONECT TO HOME BRIDGE IN ANOTHER NETWORK WITH SECURE AND ACESS THE CAMERA THROUGH HOME APP IT WILL BE APPRECIATED THANK YOU

[@SpaceRexWill]

What you need to do is allow inter VLAN routing for the camera traffic to the main LAN, otherwise it will be blocked

[@titothomas78]

@@SpaceRexWill thanks let me try

[@papaorti1842]

@@SpaceRexWill I also have everything on a UDMP and my Unifi cams on a separate VLAN and experience a very strange thing... accessing the cams over my WiFi (or LTE when away) works perfectly on all iOS devices and my MacBook. However when accessing the cams from my Mac Mini or ATv over ethernet, I can see the previews refreshing every view second however the stream doesn't start. The cam then says "no answer". I enabled ffmpeg verbose logging and only on connections over ethernet I get a line that says "...[UVC G4 Doorbell]: Stopped video streaming session." and some log entries later "[UVC G4 Doorbell]: [info] Exiting normally, received signal 15." So whatever is stopping the video, I cannot get the stream to work on ethernet-enabled devices.

[@missj7765]

Are you on web browsers or apps?

[@L0rdLogan]

It's a shame I can't get my Hikvision CCTV system to do the same

[@NewHomeTech]

Look into Scrypted they have a plugin for Hikvision

[@Charlie69]

Do you have a g4 or a g4 doorbell pro? I am wondering if the package camera will show up in HomeKit

[@marioumazul]

Yes it works. I have G4 Pro Doorbell since early access and it worked right away!

[@Charlie69]

@@marioumazul dose the doorbell cam show up as a separate camera from the main doorbell cam in HomeKit or dose it show up in PIP within the main video

[@marioumazul]

@@Charlie69 At the moment only main camera shows up. Package Camera support is not yet included. But I think I saw the author saying on Reddit that support for package cam is coming in future update.... sorry, only now noticed that you were speaking about package camera no your first question.

[@---GOD---]

My house is decked out with Reolink security cameras. I could buy four Reolink kits with 8 cameras each for the price of one UniFi Protect kit with 8 cameras. UniFi Protect is incredible, especially the software behind it.... but the pricing indicates it's not really meant for general purpose home use.

[@badlilstang]

The bullet cameras are built like tanks.. It's impressive hardware that is business grade. Just swapped my house out from Nest to Unifi protect. I already had a UDMP and POE switch so all I needed was a drive and some cameras.. Done deal.. My apple 4k tv device has an app from unifi that displays the cameras on TV.. freakin awesome setup.

[@efmarosario4953]

I have an Optiplex PC and a PoE+ Switch is a UDMP required to get this system up and going. Absolutely the best doorbell in the market right now!

[@ronnyrrr]

Would this announce doorbell notifications to the homepods?

[@SpaceRexWill]

Have not specifically tested a HomePod as I do not have one, but it should. It sends a push to my phone and all other iCloud devices

[@NewHomeTech]

Yes I use this setup you just need to have the HomePod enabled to chime and if you enable facial recognition for HKSV it will announce who it is

[@badlilstang]

So this is really only worth it if you use homebridge? I don't see the benefit of the app if you don't have the whole apple environment.

[@olezha85]

Hi. Is the sensor touch displayed in homekit?