UniFi Camera Proxy

About

This enables using non-Ubiquiti cameras within the UniFi Video/Protect software. This is particularly useful to view existing RTSP-enabled cameras in the same UI and mobile app.

Things that work:

• Live stream
• Full-time recording

Things that don't work:

• Motion detection

Installation

Dependencies:

• ffmpeg and netcat must be installed
• Python 3+

Usage

In order to use this, you must own at least one UniFi camera in order to obtain a valid client certificate (Found at /var/etc/persistent/server.pem via SSH).

pip install unifi-cam-proxy
scp ubnt@<your-unifi-cam>:/var/etc/persistent/server.pem client.pem
# RTSP stream
unifi-cam-proxy --host <NVR IP> --cert client.pem --token <Adoption token> rtsp -s rtsp://wowzaec2demo.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_175k.mov

Acquiring adoption token

Unifi Protect

1. On the Protect UI, click 'Add Devices' and select 'G3 Micro'. Select 'Continue on Web' and type in a random string for the SSID and Password fields and click 'Generate QR Code'
2. Take a screenshot of the QR code and upload it to https://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx
3. Decode the QR code and extract the token from the second to last line in the 'Raw Text' field.

Unifi Video

Follow the 'Token Adoption' step from here to generate a new token

Multiple Cameras

To deploy multiple cameras, run multiple instances of the proxy, taking care to specify different MAC addressess:

unifi-cam-proxy --host <NVR IP> --mac 'AA:BB:CC:00:11:22' --cert client.pem --token <Adoption token> rtsp -s rtsp://camera1
unifi-cam-proxy --host <NVR IP> --mac 'AA:BB:CC:33:44:55' --cert client.pem --token <Adoption token> rtsp -s rtsp://camera2

Device-specific Implementations

1. Hikvision PTZ (Hikvision DS-2DE3304W-DE): Uses brightness/contrast settings to control PTZ

   unifi-cam-proxy -H <NVR IP> -i <camera IP> -c client.pem -t <Adoption token> hikvision -u <username> -p <password>