Ubiquiti Unifi Video (G3/UVC/NVR) : Motion sensor, and recordings

Feature Requests
1

It’d be great to be able to use the Ubiquiti Unifi G3 cameras as motion sensors as well. There is an API endpoint to get the last recording, which includes timestamps, e.g.:

https://my-nvr-instance:7080/api/2.0/recording?cause[]=motionRecording&startTime=1543097000000&sortBy=startTime&sort=desc

Will return something like:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "eventType": "motionRecording",
      "startTime": 1543097377388,
      "endTime": 1543097395360,
      "cameras": [
        "deadbeef"
      ],
      "locked": false,
      "inProgress": false,
      "markedForDeletion": false,
      "meta": {...},
      "_id": "..."
    },
   .....
  ],
  "meta": {...}
}

Querying this API at regular intervals could yield:

  • whether a motion event is happening now on a device (based on inProgress flag of each camera)
  • the last recorded motion event (based on the endTime from the latest entry of each camera)
  • a list of recordings from each camera

I’d be happy to try to develop this feature if someone would mentor me through the process of contributing.

2

I haven’t integrated the recording as yet, but I made a script to talk to Home Assistant via MQTT to show motion. Here it is, https://github.com/cheloautomation/Home-Assistant/tree/master/scripts/unifi-camera-motion hope it some how helps you.

1 Like
3

Would it be possible have a python3 version of your script? And even better use it directly in HASS in the python_script folder

4

Since I am also after a similar feature for my G3, I am wondering if any of you could explain what the “state” attribute means, for my g3-device.

<template state camera.palantir=idle; access_token=abc, model_name=UVC G3, brand=Ubiquiti, motion_detection=True, friendly_name=palantir, entity_picture=/api/camera_proxy/camera.palantir?token=xyz, supported_features=0 @ 2019-10-27T16:15:54.920668+01:00>

When does the state change?