Unifi AI Port- Works great!

Arjun said:
Upon further testing; Daytime to evening the AI Port works almost flawlessly; however, at night - despite nailing the settings for nighttime LPR, the AI Port fails to pick up any license plates; makes no sense whatsoever; I have the camera settings dialed virtually perfectly; I even have HLC on. I can freeze frame each car and see the license plate perfectly. I am recording at 30fps.
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Is this AI port with your single onvif cam in protect or BI?
 
quiet.tea said:
That's unfortunate. It is like the Unifi AI Port wants to detect a vehicle first before looking for a license plate.
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Exactly my thoughts as well - it did not record anything between 7:48pm and 6AM EST this morning even though the License Plate numbers are Crystal Clear.
 
Arjun said:
AI Port with single ONVIF cam
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I have some 5442's laying around and am contemplating on getting a CK2 Plus running protect with the AI port and giving it a go. It would be a 3-4 camera max system at a camp that the family would have access to. I'm just weighing cost vs. ease of use compared to setting up a nvr system.
 
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Riclyo said:
I have some 5442's laying around and am contemplating on getting a CK2 Plus running protect with the AI port and giving it a go. It would be a 3-4 camera max system at a camp that the family would have access to. I'm just weighing cost vs. ease of use compared to setting up a nvr system.
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I wish I can recommend the AI Port but night time performance disappoints presently
 
Riclyo said:
So I'm still stuck with go full unifi with crappy night cameras or go nvr and risk annoying falses?
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I haven't tried a unifi camera for lpr; their lpr offering is somewhere around $400 to $500 and its zoom is no where close to the z12 camera

You can try blue iris and rekor scout
 
At this time, AI Port DOES NOT work with onvif cameras in night time for LPR
 
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And this is why AI Port sucks with ONVIF



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Therefore, at night, my LPR camera cannot pickup plates due to not being able to seeing moving vehicles at night; I can force color on the camera, but then the plates become too reflective. I'm forced to continue using Rekor Scout at night until Ubiquiti comes with a fix (if they even plan to) for this mess
 
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The reviews for this thing went from "its great" to "it sucks" in a hurry.

Does the OP @steve9380 not run LPR at night or something?
 
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biggen said:
The reviews for this thing went from "its great" to "it sucks" in a hurry.

Does the OP @steve9380 not run LPR at night or something?
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I thought about returning the second AI Port I received the other day for the Ubiquiti cameras I have in my setup; but I am reluctant to return them as it does a good job with facial recognition and other anomaly detection(s). I didn't want my Blue Iris system to take toll on system resources when Rekor Scout runs simultaneously in the background; daytime AI Port, nightime Rekor Scout
 
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dschur said:
I agree the AI Port is great with an ONVIF camera... during the day. It is phenomenally accurate and super usable.

I have one paired with my Axis Q1656-DLE as well as an AI Pro in the same location. During the day it does better LPR than the Axis License Plate Verifier running on the Axis Camera. It's on par with their Native AI Pro - no discernible difference for me - I have the Axis pointed North and the AI Pro pointed South mounted on a mailbox.

The usability is of course through the roof compared to the Axis (with Axis License Plate Verifier), even when I had it connected to PlateVerifier/ParkPow which cleaned up a lot of the Axis misses and made it usable. Footage/event review in the Axis UI just stinks compared to the Protect experience.

At night though in Protect, currently everything shuts down 100% - both Unifi cameras and ONVIF with the AI Port. The problem is LPR in Protect is currently predicated on Vehicle Detection. As you know for a properly tuned Axis nighttime camera the whole scene is black - at night long with faint headlights and a plate. In Protect it never sees this as a vehicle, so no LPR ever occurs, sadly. I have NEVER HAD A SINGLE night LPR read in Protect - I've tried external illuminators (super high powered), stuck on IR cut filters, and blinded the cameras to visible light. Not a single LPR read in all of my attempts.

For now I keep Axis License Plate Verifier running for night LPR recording (plate# photo date/time only really incase I need to go find footage) but never looks at it until an event needs review. I use Protect for daily event review/scanning (so much nicer and intuitive to use).

I am very hopeful that Unifi will soon get Nighttime LPR dialed and am giving them feedback to this goal. They will kill this whole market with their usability when they make that happen.

I'll also buy their forthcoming AI LPR camera (an AI Pro camera tuned for night according to the specs and marketing) as soon as I can to see if that is the ticket. Someone is going to figure out that night LPR is rather simply a large sensor, a large aperture, min shutter and gain and win the market IMO. This is not rocket science.
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Hey I was just thinking about getting 2 axis q1700-le with License Plate Verifier for my home, form you post it sounds as the results are not very accurate. Can you please give some more info. Perhaps going with AI Port + existing DAHUAs is a better solution(outside of the night issue which is actually very crucial in my use case :( ).
 
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