HUGE RUMOR: Unifi Protect will support ONVIF cameras (like from HIK/Dahua)

[CCTVCam]

Those platforms are too smart, i don't think so can be used for the overseas market. Have big law risks to use them or sell them.

Maybe one way around this would be for CHina to offer the extra features as a firmware update thus putting reponsibility for the face recognition on the end user. TBH, I doubt it's an issue with private buyers anyway, as most private buyers don't have an extensive database of identities unlike governments. You can only match people to a database at the end of the day.

Dahua also need to concentrate more on PQ. Whilst on the face of it PQ is good. With Dahua cameras despite high Pixel counts, the PQ quality is terribe away from the centre of the picture and the picture doesn't stand up well to being zoomed when compared to eg a mobile phone. Yep the mobile phone ahs the advantage of not recording 24/7 so can probably use higher bit rates, but ti still seems somehting is missing from CCTV in basic quality for picture size. The issue seems to be grain, overshaprening and a lack of definition esepcially away from the centre. On zooming, even a slight zoom in results in a blurry and poor grainy picture. Yes it's not CSI here with miracle zooming and picture improvements. But given what other devices can capture, it seems far worse than you'd expect from 4 or 8mp. This is clearly not an Andy problem but a Dahua one.

 

[tigerwillow1]

The image transmitted from the Dahua cameras I have is inferior to what the optics and sensor are capable of. Easy to see by using ROI on a small area, which gets significantly clearer while the rest of the image turns to you-know-what.

 

[duplo]

can take a brand new Unifi camera out of the box plug it into a USB cable or POE ethernet cable and setup everything right from the App on my phone within 4mins. Adoption, recording settings, quality settings, alarms, firmware updates, ivs, save files etc. Can't do that with a Dahua NVR/App.

Have you tried ?
Or just want to show all of us how dumb you are?
Why need firmware update ? Because unifi want to make sure that you may pay another 50usd/cam per month when you want to use them in future ? Great ! I love clouds too.

Configure a new camera to a nvr takes around 3-4min. With just SMD maybe only 1-2.

And now show us all how you draw ivs lines on your unifi app with your iphone.

 

[BenM]

And now show us all how you draw ivs lines on your unifi app with your iphone.

Have you tried?
Or just want to show all of us how dumb you are?

 

[duplo]

Have you tried?
Or just want to show all of us how dumb you are?

Yes ive tried it, but was not supported in the app around a 1 - 1.5 years ago. I scratched my head and wondering how that could be. Unifi is so beyond everything, its impossible that it was (and maybe still) not supported. So had to use a mouse, browser, pc like a normal human with brain instead, took only a few mins.

we removed the system a few months ago, because it had so many false detections from rain, wind etc. also the notifications where not 100%. sometimes they stopped working from one to another day, then had to manually restart, reconfigure whatever.
on that place we now use frigate. working good.

 

[Arjun]

UniFi cameras and Andy's cameras are two totally different ecosystems targeting specific people; UniFi is prosumer / mainstream consumer and Empiretech Dahua is literally professional. If you knows cameras and sensors, you know what it means to buy Dahua; UniFi is only great for convenience but still has ways to improve; night vision "sucks"

 

[kolt_]

I have been trying out Scrypted NVR as a BlueIris replacement. It's basically close to the Protect experience, simple to setup, scrubbing is nice, app is great, and AI detentions/notifications work outside the box very well. Someone says it achieves 95% of what BI does with 5% of the work and I agree. Definitely some weirdness with PTZ controls (tap, not hold, to move/zoom) but that is personal preference. The developer is also very responsive and active which is nice. I was at one point close to purchasing Protect cameras previously when trying it out, but like others mentioned, their cameras are not good low light wise, and I foresee future upselling (AI Port/Key for example), not to mention the Andy cams already work very well and I have a lot of them. Waiting for BlueIris 6 too but I am skeptical.

Their demo for those curious: Scrypted Network Video Recorder