Unifi AI Port- Works great!

so i am planning on getting an AI Port for my SD49225XA-HNR but now have been thinking of getting an LPR camera - I just don't know which one to get and how far it can be kept in terms of distance and still it can capture during the day and night. I know Unifi has one which I was thinking of getting it seems it can be 40 ft away from the road and still capture and then as long as it's below 16ft in height it would work from what i read in the manual
 
has anyone tried the LPR cameras such as IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E with the AI Port? Does it create clips of the license plate recognition?
 
I have that same camera associated with the AI Port, and it doesn't collect as many successful plates as the Rekur Scout OpenALPR does, maybe half of them. Although I haven't been checking on the improvements of the Protect software, this was my initial result.

So, while it continues to collect plates, the OpenALPR has the ability to export the plates somewhat easily for database projects, while the Protect has static images and maybe an accounting of the number of times the same plates are captured. I haven't bothered to try to use the Case Management aspect of Protect, as it seems like a lot of bother.
 
During the daytime an AI Port paired with either my IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E or ITC437-PW6M-IZ-GN work great. For vehicles, plates, people. and faces. At night it is almost useless for anything when setup as a license plate reader - dark image with correctly exposed plate..

Protect can be setup to record just during a detection or continuously. I have it set up for continuous. If I want to export a clip I find the detection in "Find Anything" and then click on Archive Event in the popup video window. First option is to "Download to this Device".
 
Thank you - I will have to look up if I can setup Rekur Scout OpenALPR to complement the Unifi setup with that camera.

Now one thing I noticed is when i connected the AI Port it only allowed AI detection one third-party camera. I believe it was suppose to be for up to 3 non Unifi cameras.

Also on the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E even though I have it in Protect and recording, without the "AI" Protect features through the AI Port - I am not receiving any alerts/etc - is that because its all down to AI Port just pairing with one camera.

I have two Dahua Empire Tech cameras - fyi
 
joogle said:
Now one thing I noticed is when i connected the AI Port it only allowed AI detection one third-party camera. I believe it was suppose to be for up to 3 non Unifi cameras.

Also on the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E even though I have it in Protect and recording, without the "AI" Protect features through the AI Port - I am not receiving any alerts/etc - is that because its all down to AI Port just pairing with one camera.

I have two Dahua Empire Tech cameras - fyi
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The AI Port is supposed to be able to pair with 3 x HD cameras, 2 x 2k cameras or 1 x 4k cameras.
However:
  1. If a HD camera is in hallway/portrait mode that is the only camera allowed on an AI Port. I do not have any portrait mode cameras larger than HD so I do not know if they could be paired, but I doubt it.
  2. My 2560x1440 cameras takes up one half of an AI Port but my 2688x1520 cameras take up the entire AI Port.
  3. If I try to pair three HD cameras to one AI Port the video gets delayed by up to 40 seconds. I am working through this with UI support. It may be fixed or it may be an ongoing limitation.
Any ONVIF camera not paired is view or record only - no detections or alerts of any kind. Protect does not read any triggers from the cameras ( ?ONVIF-T? ).

Right now my biggest complaints are the lack of license plate detection at night and a recent bug that messes up assigning and unassigning faces.
 
You know whats interesting until you wrote about capacity, I was wondering i never saw the 'Pair' option next to the other Dahua. Now when I went to the device on the Unifi dashboard, i see capacity was like 1/3 or something like that, i then clicked manage and now was able to associate the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E as well which wasn't really there before or if it was i didnt notice until now.

Now that it is paired, I suspect the AI-IVS rule i setup on the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E it should push that to the Protect, right?

Thanks!
 
joogle said:
You know whats interesting until you wrote about capacity, I was wondering i never saw the 'Pair' option next to the other Dahua. Now when I went to the device on the Unifi dashboard, i see capacity was like 1/3 or something like that, i then clicked manage and now was able to associate the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E as well which wasn't really there before or if it was i didnt notice until now.

Now that it is paired, I suspect the AI-IVS rule i setup on the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E it should push that to the Protect, right?

Thanks!
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The Protect AI Port has its own rules, or basically OCR on license plates if the License Plate option is checked in the individual camera record options within Protect

In my own situation, Rekor Scout does a much better job of collecting plates than the AI Port does on the Z12 camera. I have both collecting at the same time off of the same Z12 camera, and can see the difference.
 
Got it - so Protect will trigger its own notifications then based on it's setup? I have been trying to figure out in this Dahua the difference between AI setup, Alarm (Enable), and then Video Detection (Enable), and Smart Motion Detection (Enable).

Right now the only thing i had set was the AI Setup with an IVS rule as attached but still no alerts in Protect. I guess Protect now that it is paired with the AI port will hopefully trigger on its own when a license plate appears.

License Plate is checked on the camera within Protect under recording
 

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In the UniFi Protect's Alarm Manager there's a 'Vehicle of Interest' alarm which when triggered can cause an email, app alert, a sound, etc. I do see when editing that category that 'Webhook' is there as an option.
 
joogle said:
Got it - so Protect will trigger its own notifications then based on it's setup? I have been trying to figure out in this Dahua the difference between AI setup, Alarm (Enable), and then Video Detection (Enable), and Smart Motion Detection (Enable).

Right now the only thing i had set was the AI Setup with an IVS rule as attached but still no alerts in Protect. I guess Protect now that it is paired with the AI port will hopefully trigger on its own when a license plate appears.

License Plate is checked on the camera within Protect under recording
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Nothing you setup directly on the camera will create detections or alarms in Protect.

After you pair a camera with an AI Port go to Devices —> camera —> Recording mode and there you can turn on motion detection and various AI events. They will now show up in Find Anything and elsewhere in Protect.

Then go to the alarm manager to create whatever alarms you wish.
 
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