Unifi Protect custom webhook vs Home Assistant trigger

[tvrabec (Tomáš Vrabec)]

Hi everyone,

Have no idea where else to ask, to trying also here.

I am currently struggling with webhook automation trigger.

Behavior is very strange.

Use case is, custom alarm within Unifi camera to trigger automation for outdoor lights.

1. If I sent the POST via Postman, the automation is triggered.
2. If the same POST is sent via unifi, nothing - the trace in automation is empty - not called. I have no idea where the data could be lost.
3. The Unifi camera motion detection works fine, but detects also motion from sidewalk.

Does anyone have experience with those?

(Set to POST, only local false)I cannot use Unifi entity within this camera, as there is no support for zones (need to ignore cars and persons on the sidewalk). HA Greed, whole infrastructure is Unifi.

Thanks for any idea, Tom

[aceindy]

Use MotioneEye in between?
It supports zones etc…

[tvrabec (Tomáš Vrabec)]

Never heard of that. Some kind of software? I am kind of fresh user, never saw linux, never compile anything. Unifi stuff is connect to power hit next few times and forget.Got HA installed by my friend, I am able to add Sonoff or Ikea stuff and do basic automations. So please, like with idiot

[Holdestmade]

Have a look here and in particular the link to github page, it describes how to do this

UniFi Protect’s Smart Detection Zones / Line Crossing & HA

Morning all, Has anyone managed to get notifications from UniFi Protect in to HA for detection events, line crossing or just motion in specific detection zones (eg on the drive, at the front door etc.)? I’ve searched histories, logs, settings & forums with no luck. Running up to date HA on a Pi, UDM SE with G4 Pros and the UniFi Protect official plugin. Assume someone heavily involved in writing code for these will read this at some point, so thanks for all the hard work you’ve put in. Chee…

Search results in these posts:

https://community.home-assistant.io/search?q=unifi%20webhook%20order%3Alatest

[tvrabec (Tomáš Vrabec)]

Sorry, but there are only replies with no success from everyone. I did not found not single user with heureka - its working. There are many manual and how to, but my webhook doesnt reach HA and I have no idea why. Unifi says its detected and webhook triggered. But HA is dead. When I hit webhook from Postman, it works. Like a firewall between unifi and HA connected to unifi.

[Holdestmade]

I do have it working, what format is your webhook in unifi ? Did you copy it from the HA automation trigger ?

[aceindy]

MotionEye is an official add-on for HA.

It will process any video stream.
It also has recording and snapshot options as well as motion detection (including zones).

GitHub - hassio-addons/addon-motioneye: motionEye - Home Assistant Community...

Motion detection on motioneye

Yeah, no issues here: It uses a webhook from Motion eye [image] The automation is a bit messy, as it originally used to be a blueprint, which I adapted to an automation. For clarification, the first device is a Android phone, the 2nd device an IOS; they differ a bit as they use a different URL for the message alias: Warehouse Notify when camera detects motion description: "" trigger: - platform: webhook webhook_id: warehouseipc allowed_methods: - POST local_o…

[Holdestmade]

This is my working setup, is yours similar ?

Try using this webhook debugger from the post below. It will generate a notification with the json response from unifi.

Below you can see a response I got when a vehicle entered zone 1

Expose face recognition from Unifi Protect integration

btw this Automation a webhook debugger helped me to see what protect actually sends in the webhook. you can filter for several other variables. Oh there is one more issue. For some reason unifi protect only acts on a recognised face at the end of smart detection, think same goes for licenses plates. So standing infront of the cam and waiting for the webhook finally to trigger won’t work. The detection event/process has to stop. Not happy with it, but I did a messy workaround by defining Smar…

{
  "alarm": {
    "conditions": [
      {
        "condition": {
          "source": "person",
          "type": "is"
        }
      },
      {
        "condition": {
          "source": "vehicle",
          "type": "is"
        }
      },
      {
        "condition": {
          "source": "animal",
          "type": "is"
        }
      }
    ],
    "name": "Webhook Debugger Objects",
    "sources": [
      {
        "device": "E438830EF67B",
        "type": "include"
      },
      {
        "device": "EC71DB626A93",
        "type": "include"
      }
    ],
    "triggers": [
      {
        "device": "xxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "eventId": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "key": "vehicle",
        "zones": {
          "line": [],
          "loiter": [],
          "zone": [
            1
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "timestamp": 1739524761139
}

[Swyft]

I’m a bit late here, but wanted to share my experience in case it helps.

Through trial-and-error, I discovered that webhook triggers in Unifi Protect only work if they are the only action for the alarm. I was experimenting with using webhooks and had an alarm sending a notification and a webhook, and HA wouldn’t get anything even though I got the notification from Protect. When I removed the notification in the Protect alarm so the webhook was the only action, I finally got the webhook to trigger.

I didn’t find any documentation stating this requirement, so I was pretty annoyed when I finally got it working…

[Warzel]

Did not fix it for me.
I try to set up a webhook POST from Unifi Protect to Home assistant, but Unifi is not sending anything.
I can do a success post using curl from my computer, but the same URL in unifi protect does nothing.

I also tried to send the post to my web-server and watched the logging … nothing. totaly nothing is send from unifi device. though it counts that the alarm is triggert. also the test alarm button does nothing