I keep seeing Reolink pop up. Would a Reolink doorbell work with a Unifi NVR?
Sort of. You can add most cameras that support ONVIF and they’ll be viewable and record just fine in Protect, but third party cameras won’t support detection unless you also add a Unifi AI Port. I also wouldn’t count on Unifi recognizing it as a doorbell for the purposes of two-way audio or for doorbell notifications. Those would likely have to be handled outside of Protect.
Oof. Didn’t realize they killed that one.
I’ve been running Protect since around Christmas on a UCG Fiber with a 2TB SSD, with a single G6 Turret recording 24/7 full 4k quality. As of right now, my recording history goes back to January 19th, or about 25 days. Based on that, rough napkin math would put 6 cameras at around 8 days of continuous FHD footage, by my estimate. Protect has per-camera settings that allow you to change retention policies, as well as choose between event-based recording, continuous, or adaptive, where it reduces recording quality for the uneventful majority of the time, then records full quality during events. These options would meaningfully increase recording storage time.
While I’m currently only running a single Unifi-branded camera, I have previously added four TPLink Tapo wifi cameras to Protect as well, though you have to enable an experimental setting to add third-party cameras.
Protect allows you to set up detections based on a wide range of events, I believe partially dependent on what camera model you use and what the camera can process internally. My G6 Turret can detect motion, people, vehicles, animals, license plates, faces, burglars, packages, glass breaking, sirens, car horns, dog barking, talking, etc. You can set motion zones to filter areas of the field of view for detections, you can set privacy blackout areas, and you can disable the microphone. Can’t compare detections to Ring, as I’ve only used Google Nest and Unifi Protect. I haven’t put a huge amount of effort into managing detections beyond setting a zone so I didn’t get notification spam… of which you can set push notifications and/or email notifications per detection type. It’s relatively easy and responsive to click through detection events in the app. Don’t know how much slower it would be on HDD storage.
As for the doorbell, I’ve been looking to switch from Nest to Unifi, but I’m waiting for the G6 Pro Entry. Since you can’t run Ethernet, have you considered the G4 wifi doorbell? It runs off of 24V AC that’s typically already running to the doorbell. If not, I’m sure you could kludge something together in Home Assistant.
As for the interface and wife-friendliness, the setup side of things can get you a bit lost, but the day-to-day usage is pretty intuitive. It’s easy to pick a camera and go into the detection history or scroll through the timeline.
I’d love that. Some things I’m willing to be on beta release. Some things I just want to be invisible and silent unless there’s a security problem.
I mean, isn’t that what Windows does anyway?
I’d obviously prefer Notepad++ didn’t auto-install malware. Steam and Discord force auto-updates on every launch and do so without user intervention. I haven’t knowingly been burned by either yet, but they’re bigger players with more resources than Notepad++.
Good thing I always ignore notepad++ updates. I mean, good on the devs for active development, but having a user-intervention-required update option every time I launch? Feels clunky.
You have provided a great public service. Thank you.
Couldn’t have even told you there was a video on the page. I mostly browse the news while I’m at work, avoiding doing work. I have trained myself to ignore videos on news articles because I can’t have the sound on. So yeah, info in a video embedded on a news site doesn’t exist for me.
The last time one of our photogs saw Catherine was at LAX in February 2024 … when we asked her what role she would most want to be remembered for.
Author then neglects to say what her answer was now that it is most relevant…
While I don’t necessarily have an issue with the intent of this bot, literally none of the initialisms listed were in the OP or any of the comments, as far as I can see.
The thing I always wonder when I hear about these bills is whether cis women would be more uncomfortable with noticeably MtF individuals in their bathroom, or with passing FtM individuals in their bathroom. My money’s on the latter.
Probably 4-6 months ago I finally reached my breaking point. Facebook used to be centered around friends. Sure, most of them are now dormant on the platform, but for those that were still active, they were still buried amongst piles of far-right bullshit that I never asked for and that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I clicked “see less like this.” I deleted the Android app and logged in via mobile browser. I still occasionally check the happenings in my industry’s Facebook groups and my HOA, but Facebook is otherwise dead to me.
Fair point
The CEO can play golf better than an LLM
Computers can play golf better than a human, assuming you give them capable hardware to swing the club.
A Nazi who takes it in the butt on camera to own the libs, no less.
Not sure. I don’t really have working knowledge of ONVIF.