UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell

I’ve heard positive reviews of the UniFi Protect G4 Doorbell. The UniFi Protect plugin for homebridge seems to support it well, including the 2-way audio. The nice thing about the Protect platform is that it’s local first. Note: I don’t have one since I’m in Canada, and it was only released to Canadians two days ago! But I’ll also probably stick with old style doorbell + PoE porch camera (UniFi Protect G3 Flex)

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Just seems unreal. I'm utilizing a ubiquiti G4 doorbell and it was really easy to integrate into my apple tv 4k utilizing my at home unraid server. I'm just used to anything apple being such a walled off ecosystem I didn't even expect it to work. Not only did it work but it's more snappy than the native ubiquiti app. Thanks to the great community for all the work that goes into the scripts and testing.

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Yesterday I installed the Ubiquiti Unifi G4 Doorbell. Using Homebridge to get the notifications to homekit works great. I even get the notification and live video stream on my Apple TV when I'm watching tv :) But I have a question. My old doorbell had an old chime that doesn't work anymore. My wife and I both get notifications on our phones when someone rings the doorbell, but I'm not sure thats enough. I was hoping there was a way to let the doorbell trigger in Homekit play a sound on my apple tv. anyone know if thats possible? I tried messing around with Shortcuts, and got a working …

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Best of the best is the G4 Ubiquiti Doorbell + Homebridge. Just make sure your homebridge server is beefy (aka NOT a RPi)

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Use Scrypted to bring Ubiquiti doorbell into HomeKit. Performs better than going through HomeBridge in my experience.

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… Synology DS116, which Docker doesn’t support, can’t support high resolution video. I needed to set Homebridge to low resolution only in order for the doorbell camera stream and HKSV to work reliably. It turns out that both Homebridge and Scrypted work fine with high resolution and HKSV on my MacBook Pro. I was using the Home app on my MacBook Pro to debug and I didn’t realize that it was getting errors when trying to use a local version of Homebridge, which made me think I was having the same probably as the Synology.

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The G4 Doorbell is 1600x1200 (4:3), it looks like snapshots are being forced to 1280x720 (16:9) regardless of device type so they appear stretched in Home.app.

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