It looks like better ONVIF support is coming to UniFi Protect

[kolt_]

If you own any third-party ONVIF cameras, I still highly recommend you hold onto the AI Ports especially for CPU offload processing

Good point. AI ports for me never really worked great. Some cameras have pretty bad delays, even with both units having at most 2 HD streams and the occasional update popping my cameras out of the Ports and needing to reconnect them. Also the bitrate seems funky which isn't that big of a deal. Kinda wish (and thought) the AI in the NVR would be a replacement so there is still gap which the AI port will still have to fill. Curious about the AI Port X, would be nice having just one unit handling everything, depending if it's a good deal

 

[Arjun]

Good point. AI ports for me never really worked great. Some cameras have pretty bad delays, even with both units having at most 2 HD streams and the occasional update popping my cameras out of the Ports and needing to reconnect them. Also the bitrate seems funky which isn't that big of a deal. Kinda wish (and thought) the AI in the NVR would be a replacement so there is still gap which the AI port will still have to fill. Curious about the AI Port X, would be nice having just one unit handling everything, depending if it's a good deal

I just read on reddit that the third-party cameras like Dahua/Hikvision still require AI Key, meaning that the onboard Edge AI in the G2 NVRs only work in tandem with native UniFi cameras. Ubiquiti ran a deal last year on Black Friday selling the AI Keys for $150 - I wouldn't mind buying a few more for my existing Dahua camera setup (which is still my primary means); I only have 4 UniFi cameras (including Doorbells) outdoors

 

[Molbo]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Protect already support IVS events (line crossings, etc)? Also, the IVS events are technically part of ONVIF, so it should work in the latest update, making those IVS events essentially Smart Motion Detection events (they will be denoted by markers on the playback timeline)

Protect supports line crossing for Unifi cameras. I haven't tried it myself, but apparently latest version of Protect only supports ONVIF events for Motion Detection, and not Line Crossing, etc. It looks like someone from this forum should look into this, the "normal" Unifi users are not good in this kind of investigations