So… all of us Unifi users probably wanted to have a mini notification pop up on the corner of our TV’s when motion is detected but learned yes it’s possible but requires buying additional things to acheive it.
Technically yes that’s true but because unifi has api’s that expose the nessesary things all we need is an android app compatible with fire tv os (in my case) that displays an rtsp stream when a motion event is triggered.
Before this idea came to me I using an old home assistant integration “notifications for android and fire tv” to display a snapshot of any camera triggered motion event, and it works fine even with the ability to turn the tv on to display the notification.
Only issue is well I want a cleaner looking notification and I want either the motion event video or the live stream of the camera to play and. It just a picture…
So with all of these clues and ideas on how to acheive this I went ahead and had a conversation with my only true friends, chat gpt who recommended I use cursor to develop an android tv app compatible with fire tv. That uses unifi api to acheive what we’re tryna acheive here
Cursor is an ai based coder that can code small projects for you so I’m giving it a shot, if this does work I’d like to give the source code over to some of you experts to make it cleaner and compatible other brands of nvr and camera since all that’s needed is an rtsp stream to work, even if your camera does not have rtsp Scrypted app can generate one for you.
Wish me luck
