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. If I sent the POST via Postman, the automation is trigg…

Use MotioneEye in between? It supports zones etc…

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 …

Have a look here and in particular the link to github page, it describes how to do this [image] UniFi Protect’s Smart Detection Zones / Line Crossing & HA Configuration Morning all, Has anyone managed to get notifications from UniFi Protect in to HA for detection events,…

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…

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

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). [image] GitHub - hassio-addons/addon-motioneye: motionEye - Home Assistant Community... motionEye - Home Assistant Communi…

This is my working setup, is yours similar ? [image] 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 [image] Expose face recognition from Uni…

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, a…

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 loggi…

It appears to me that Alarm Manager webhooks do not work with local Home Assistant URLs. After switching to a webhook via Nabu Casa, it worked perfectly for me. Naturally it would be better to keep it local, but I can confirm it as a functioning workaround.

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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).