UniFi Protect Cameras

my stream is loading in about 5 seconds on the doorbell, the hardwired cameras load up in about 3 seconds I had Scrypted going but HB is so much easier since I had other things going in there as well

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UniFi Protect works very well through Homebridge https://github.com/hjdhjd/homebridge-unifi-protect

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The unifi protect plugin supports this...

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I have fixed my own problem. Despite all the roll backs reloads etc finally restored live feeds by restarting Homebridge OS. Just restarting HB or Service wasn’t enough so was clearly caching something.

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A few years ago, I installed the homebridge-unifi-protect plug and it just wasn't terribly stable on my installation. Since I run homebridge in a VM on Proxmox, I just spun up a different instance on another one of my nodes and installed the plugin there (this time using a docker install). I've been redoing my homelab setup and moved the original install into a docker install onto the newer host my unifi-protect plugin was on (but a separate VM still). Given the plug-in has been trouble-free for me in over a year and this host is more powerful, I am looking to consolidate them and not run an …

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Go to each camera and enable anonymous snapshots. I had the same problem.

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Not sure when the issue started but I can no longer stream UniFi cameras at home on my Apple devices while on wifi. I can see the snap shot. Interesting thing is when on LTE I can stream, but I have noted that the stream request comes from the AppleTV instead of my phone when on Wifi. Again not sure when this started happening, recently updated to Protect 1.19.0. Have not changed any settings except I turned on all RTSP streams. Based on the troubleshooting I read it seems like it could be a network issue, but nothing I have tried has made a difference. The camera, phone and UDMP are all in …

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I know this is an old post. But it made a big difference for me in performance. Snapshots load faster. And going from one camera feed to another loads faster. Turn on “Make this a standalone device in HomeKit that will need to be added to HomeKi through the home app.” I think HomeKit will run each camera connection in parallel vs in series. The issue is actually explained well here.

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I have my UniFi protect cameras setup in Homebridge pulling in 3 cameras and it works perfecly. But I remember that it took a while because of some counter-intuitive setting. Am not home so can’t check right now what would be different or unique with my setup. (Also on RPi 5, 8GB) What plugin are you using? I think I seem to remember an issue of needing to have Protect trigger “all” and any motion … so that HomeKit gets a feed to examine … and then trigger its own notifications from that. Ie HomeKit does not analyze the live feed for motion events or others. It needs to get a “motion” trigger …

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I find Scrypted the best for Protect

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