It's great to see UniFi finally do this. I've done some preliminary testing too, and really disappointing they don't support RTSP-only cameras. Kinda strange, since RTSP is actually running underneath the wrapper of every ONVIF camera! Whether UniFi will ever support additional ONVIF features is unknown. They have said this support is to help larger business/commercial customers move over to UniFi by allowing them to connect their existing ONVIF cameras to UniFi system. But UniFi still wants them to buy and use UniFi cameras in the long term. So it is a balancing act - the more support they add for ONVIF, the less customers will be compelled to buy UniFi cameras. Supposedly, they are working on a hardware plug-in processor that will allow them to support motion detection and other AI features for basic ONVIF cameras, that would be a great compromise. UniFi still needs to face the one big limitation of UniFi cameras - they missed the boat on the all the Starlight night vision sensors, All the UniFi cameras, regardless of the price, are terrible for use at night. Right now, ONVIF $50 cameras have them beat.
Couldn't agree more. But actually i doubt ubiquiti will ever make the onvif support deeper. But then again, a month ago, i would never believe they will do it in tve first place
True. Would be interesting, however also is limited to what the specs the camera manufacture has into the ONVIF profiling, would imagine it would be quite a bit more than what Unifi has access to so far.
For me I needed to use the :portnumber after the ip address and it worked without http. To be fair I do have https enabled as I don’t have a nor other than the udm Pro
Hmm, I didn't know about that advance adoption. I had to put the camera in the same default lan for it to detect. but I rather not have it on the default lan. So am doing to try to put it on a different vlan and see if the advance adoption will work with different IP. Also, I can't get any detection from the camera through protect.
You won't be able to get any detection across multiple subnets. This is a broadcast domain issue. Discovery uses the subnet broadcast IP to listen on for different devices that arrive on the network. Broadcast advertisements will not transport over different subnets. MAYBE if mDNS was implemented, but highly doubt it and would be a pain to setup (from what I know)
Do unifi cameras support onvif?
It's great to see UniFi finally do this. I've done some preliminary testing too, and really disappointing they don't support RTSP-only cameras. Kinda strange, since RTSP is actually running underneath the wrapper of every ONVIF camera!
Whether UniFi will ever support additional ONVIF features is unknown. They have said this support is to help larger business/commercial customers move over to UniFi by allowing them to connect their existing ONVIF cameras to UniFi system. But UniFi still wants them to buy and use UniFi cameras in the long term.
So it is a balancing act - the more support they add for ONVIF, the less customers will be compelled to buy UniFi cameras.
Supposedly, they are working on a hardware plug-in processor that will allow them to support motion detection and other AI features for basic ONVIF cameras, that would be a great compromise.
UniFi still needs to face the one big limitation of UniFi cameras - they missed the boat on the all the Starlight night vision sensors, All the UniFi cameras, regardless of the price, are terrible for use at night. Right now, ONVIF $50 cameras have them beat.
Couldn't agree more. But actually i doubt ubiquiti will ever make the onvif support deeper. But then again, a month ago, i would never believe they will do it in tve first place
True. Would be interesting, however also is limited to what the specs the camera manufacture has into the ONVIF profiling, would imagine it would be quite a bit more than what Unifi has access to so far.
Loved the video, Avi! So happy they added this functionality.
Oh yeah. Thanks for watching Frank.
For me I needed to use the :portnumber after the ip address and it worked without http. To be fair I do have https enabled as I don’t have a nor other than the udm Pro
Amazing video , can you please do a video for how to optimize the WiFi coverage ? thanks in advance !Keep it up !
Thanks for watching. Will add this topic to my to do list
Hmm, I didn't know about that advance adoption. I had to put the camera in the same default lan for it to detect. but I rather not have it on the default lan. So am doing to try to put it on a different vlan and see if the advance adoption will work with different IP. Also, I can't get any detection from the camera through protect.
You won't be able to get any detection across multiple subnets. This is a broadcast domain issue. Discovery uses the subnet broadcast IP to listen on for different devices that arrive on the network. Broadcast advertisements will not transport over different subnets. MAYBE if mDNS was implemented, but highly doubt it and would be a pain to setup (from what I know)
Has anyone actually been able to get ONVIF cameras to record any video?
Yup working well with my C120 Tapos