Has anyone used a Unifi Cloud Key 2+ (Unifi Protect) with HAss?

[stetho (Steve Thompson)]

Hi all,

I’ve just replaced my CloudKey and a VM running the Unifi NVR with a Cloud Key 2+. Great little device but Home Assistant won’t talk to it. My logs are full of

2019-03-26 13:18:10 ERROR (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.camera.uvc] NVR refuses to talk to me: Request failed: 404
2019-03-26 13:18:10 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.camera] Platform uvc not ready yet. Retrying in 180 seconds.

I haven’t investigated this yet. I assume it’s a 404 error because the CK2+ doesn’t serve up some page in the same location as the NVR VM did. Therefore this will require a change to the code of the uvr module. However, I thought I’d ask in here in case anyone else has seen this before I start submitting bug tickets.

Thanks

Steve

[gohassgo]

Bumping this…

Can’t find a username for the cameras and Unifi Protect local user creds don’t work. Neither does the Settings > General > Device Password with any username I could think up.

I’ve tried both the generic and uvc camera platforms. The uvc component’s docs don’t match up with what’s in the cloud ket gen 2 + interface–there’s no user assigned to an api key…

Anybody have this working–either for streams or stills or both?

Thanks

[gohassgo]

Just found this thread and it got me connected.

Unifi Protect Integration

It’s still on my back burner of ideas, the trickiest part is trying to figure out how to scrape what cameras are in protect like the NVR component does. The rest of the component works in the same fashion. For now I have it setup as a generic camera that works in the same manor as before, just have to manually configure them. I went this route especially because of new stream component. The one thing I haven’t sorted, and didn’t spend much time on, is passing camera user and pass credentials…

I was able to get logged into the camera’s IP with http (no “s”) and see camera settings. No SSH required.

Note that I did have to check the box to “Enable Anonymous Snapshot”. I could not get any combination of username/password to work. The unifi_protect_device_password is in Protect > Settings > General.

Camera login:

    username: ubnt
    password: unifi_protect_device_password

Here’s my config:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: Camera1
    still_image_url: http://camera_ip_addr/snap.jpeg
    stream_source: rtsp:///string_from_protect_settings_for_the_camera

And Lovelace cards… The still image version streams in the pop-up window after clicking the still.

entity: camera.camera1
type: picture-entity
name: Camera1 Still

entity: camera.camera1
type: picture-entity
name: Camera1 Live Stream
camera_view: live

type: picture-glance
entities: []
camera_image: camera.camera1

[gohassgo]

I saw this in HACS and finally got around to installing it today. It worked from the start with my Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus and has motion, camera and device tracker support. Nice!

Many kudos to @briis!

briis/unifiprotect

[zacs]

Big agreement here! @briis has been crushing it between this and his Smartweather plugins.