Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

quest100 said:
If I did not already have cameras I would probably use UI cameras where possible - but only their newer G6 generation that have larger sensors and AI capabilities built in. However their PTZs are either underwhelming (G6 PTZ, no zoom, just two separate lenses) or very expensive (AI PTZ Industrial at $1,300). UI has no equivalents to the Color-X or 12x zooms. The AI LPR looks good and is supposed to work well at night but it only has a 3x zoom.
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Their new G6 line up has me wondering. I see you have a color 4K T camera. I use five of them and set up my own LED soffit lighting for all five and keep the onboard LED's off. The lighting is controlled by smart dimmer switches and they automatically turn on/off with automations in Home assistant. It got me wondering how well a G6 turret would work if I used the same lighting? I know the G6 has a 1/1.8 sensor compared to my 4K t's 1/1.2 but what if I just increased the brightness on my accessory LED soffit lights? With my 4K T's I only have the brightness set at 50% and even less on a few of my others since it's all dependant on each individual scene. Or maybe dim them way down where a G6 would still go into IR mode but still benefit from a tiny bit of accessory lighting.
 
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Keizer said:
Their new G6 line up has me wondering. I see you have a color 4K T camera. I use five of them and set up my own LED soffit lighting for all five and keep the onboard LED's off. The lighting is controlled by smart dimmer switches and they automatically turn on/off with automations in Home assistant. It got me wondering how well a G6 turret would work if I used the same lighting? I know the G6 has a 1/1.8 sensor compared to my 4K t's 1/1.2 but what if I just increased the brightness on my accessory LED soffit lights? With my 4K T's I only have the brightness set at 50% and even less on a few of my others since it's all dependant on each individual scene. Or maybe dim them way down where a G6 would still go into IR mode but still benefit from a tiny bit of accessory lighting.
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The G6 Pro Bullet actually uses a 1/1.2" sensor. However, the lens aperture is F/1.5 to F/2.9. This means the it lets in 1/2.25 to 1/8.41 times as much light. The next question, for which I have no answer, is how good/bad is the sensor noise and image processing. It could be better or worse than the Color-X cameras.
 
quest100 said:
Trying the AI Ports on my various Dahua Cameras it looks like
  1. HD (1080 x 1920) - uses one quarter of an AI Port
  2. 2k (1440 x 2560) - uses one third of an AI Port
  3. 2k+ (1520 x 2668) - uses one entire AI Port
  4. 4K (2160 x 3840) - uses one entire AI Port
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I repaired some of my cameras to the AI Port to double check how many cameras could be paired to a single AI Port. The values are worse than I reported above.

All of the Dahua cameras are running at a H.264H, CBR and 8 Mbps. Differences from above are:
  1. HD (1080 x 1920) - uses slightly more than one quarter of an AI Port
  2. 2k (1440 x 2560) - uses around one half of an AI Port
  3. 2k (2560 x 1440, portrait orientation) - uses one entire AI Port
  4. 2k (1440 x 2560) + HD (1080 x 1920) - does not leave room for a third camera
  5. 3 x HD (1080 x 1920) - does not leave room for a fourth camera
Not sure what role encoder settings have on AI Port capacity.
 
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quest100 said:
I repaired some of my cameras to the AI Port to double check how many cameras could be paired to a single AI Port. The values are worse than I reported above.

All of the Dahua cameras are running at a H.264H, CBR and 8 Mbps. Differences from above are:
  1. HD (1080 x 1920) - uses slightly more than one quarter of an AI Port
  2. 2k (1440 x 2560) - uses around one half of an AI Port
  3. 2k (2560 x 1440, portrait orientation) - uses one entire AI Port
  4. 2k (1440 x 2560) + HD (1080 x 1920) - does not leave room for a third camera
  5. 3 x HD (1080 x 1920) - does not leave room for a fourth camera
Not sure what role encoder settings have on AI Port capacity.
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Says in the specs it should be able to handle a max of one single 4K camera, are you at least able to do this with an AI Port?
 
quest100 said:
The G6 Pro Bullet actually uses a 1/1.2" sensor. However, the lens aperture is F/1.5 to F/2.9. This means the it lets in 1/2.25 to 1/8.41 times as much light. The next question, for which I have no answer, is how good/bad is the sensor noise and image processing. It could be better or worse than the Color-X cameras.
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Definitely seems to do well even against the AI Pro, certainly something to consider going forward.

 
quest100 said:
The G6 Pro Bullet actually uses a 1/1.2" sensor. However, the lens aperture is F/1.5 to F/2.9. This means the it lets in 1/2.25 to 1/8.41 times as much light. The next question, for which I have no answer, is how good/bad is the sensor noise and image processing. It could be better or worse than the Color-X cameras.
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I guess I was just wondering how the $199.00 G6 would do against my 4K T cams at night. Maybe with the right amount of light they could do just as well at night. I assume they would stay in full color all night with enough lighting. Be nice to see someone compare the two. I'd probably trade all my 4K T's right now for the G6 Pro Bullets.
 
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