Unifi Protect New Animal Detections

Feature Requests
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Could we please have the newly released detections in v2.11 of Protect ?

HA 2024.2 added the audio detections so the new ones below would be great:

  • Added support for Animal Detections
    * G4/G5/AI series: cat, dog, cow, sheep, horse, deer, bear

* Added support for new Audio Detections, including classification and event filtering:
* G4/G5/AI series (with mic): baby crying
* AI series (with mic): speaking, car horn, car alarm, glass breakage, barking

* Added support for Vehicle Type Classification and event filtering
* AI series (except 360): car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, bike, SUV

* Added support for Vehicle Color Classification and event filtering:
* AI series: black, blue, brown, gray, green, orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow

EDIT: I see they were added to pyunifiprotect yesterday so hopefully this will be added

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@AngellusMortis
I see the change in pyunifprotect in version 4.23.3. The current Homeassistant core version from 2 days ago is still version 4.23.2.
When can I expect Homeassistant to upgrade to the new version?
Can I perhaps upgrade myself locally to 4.23.3?

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@AngellusMortis
I see that animal detection has been added to the Protect APP. And I also receive push notifications. Is it perhaps possible to display animal recognition now? Or the option of having this displayed via the push notification route.

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Sorry if I came across as a bit rude. Actually it was just intended as a question. But I still appreciate it when people do this work in their free time. Unfortunately, I don’t have any knowledge of how to program it. Anyway, thanks for everything.

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Just wanted to say thanks for your work on this! Very excited to add a night time automation which turns our sprinklers on for 30 seconds when the deer start eating our veggies - no more midnight raiders and i get a video recording of the surprise to boot!

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Would love an automation if my neighbors cat comes into my yard turn on sprinklers for 1 min

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not really a python guy but I added stuff based on the pyunifiprotect docs and the existing code for the integration. will figure out how to run the tests and whatnot after work later

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My PR ended up being a duplicate of Add support for animal detection in unifiprotect by wfltaylor ¡ Pull Request #116290 ¡ home-assistant/core (github.com), installed that fork to test and it works great!

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I updated to the latest home assistant but do not see the animal detections? I have Home Assistant OS installed and just use the default unifi protect plugin for my UNVR Pro. Is this correct?

I can see person, object, and vehicle detection. I have a slew of G4 Pros and G5 Cameras. Thanks in advance

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It hasn’t been merged yet. Looking at the PRs, there seems to be some changes of the code owner so not sure when it will be done. You can just download the PR and apply it to a custom component, that’s what I have done and it works great

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Hi @Holdestmade,

Could you point me to a guide or give a short overview how to “apply it to a custom component” ?

Thanks

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Sure, go to github and download home assistant. Then, in that zip, find the unifi protect folder. Copy that to your custom component folder. Then download the PR and overwrite the files in your custom component \ unifiprotect folder. Restart and all should be good. You might need to do a reload on the integration.

Note, if HA updates unifi protect, you will not get those updates, the custom component will be prioritised.

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@Holdestmade thanks!

Did all the steps but dont have the animal detection.
I didnt had to override a unifiprotect folder in the custom components because there that folder wasnt present yet, maybe thats why?

im using this folder: \\homeassistant.local\config\custom_components\ that the right one?

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Did you copy the whole unifi protect folder from the home assistant download first ?

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@Holdestmade ah i see, ive copyied the dev branch when it wasnt merged yet. but its merged now.

Thnx!

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This is done in 2024.7, closing.

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Could I ask which camera and sprinkler/water valve you are using to do this? This is exactly what I am attempting to do and would love a little help. Thanks