Add AI To Your Security Cameras For Only $200!

Unifi's new AI Port truly is a game-changer, giving us the power to give traditional security cameras AI face detection capabilities. Standing at only $200, this thing is screaming deal with Unifi claiming they will have future updates allowing it to support up to 5 Unifi Protect cameras, or up to 3 ONVIF cameras.

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0:00 Unifi AI Port
0:35 AI Port Unboxing and Overview
1:25 AI Port FAQs
4:07 AI Port Use Cases
4:55 Adopt AI Port
5:42 G4 PTZ AI
10:01 G3 Dome AI
11:27 G5 Turret Ultra AI
13:24 Designing a new system
14:52 ONVIF camera AI in Unifi Protect

[JakeShirley]

Multiple camera support is neat. I wish they would do a rack-mounted solution. Maybe a modular NVR-style device that you can slide in more "AI Port" compute modules into as needed.

[alldecentnamestaken]

I have two of these deployed on a system on Southside. Both are hooked up to Dahua cameras. I can't emphasize enough how easy these were to set up. That property used to run on a BlueIris NVR (PC). It took me days to get that system set up properly. By comparison it only took me about two minutes of my time to get the Ai Port setup. One thing to note when using this with ONVIF: set the camera to H.264 for both the main stream and the sub stream. The Ai Port doesn't seem to like H.265 for now.

[JackReacheround]

I would love to see a G5 PTZ test. They say it can't enhance the tracking but i find that a major issue it has (ESPECIALLY at night with its IR) is detecting people at all, or losing the track because it no longer see someone as a person.

[David-hmd]

I have an AI port paired with a G5 turret and the plate reading and facial detection only works less than 50% of the time. The lighting has to be perfect to read plates I feel like and not possible at night so far

[terryjohnson]

Have you paired the port with one of the wifi camera's? Specifically the G4 instant? I'll probably test that this weekend.

[michaelh]

I will get an AiKey once they are available. It’s great to be able to use some other alternatives for specific use cases.

[gsawnv]

I have the AI port on my G4 doorbell pro which is acting as an intercom at my gate. It seems like the camera is not of sufficient resolution / image quality to capture license plates but it is capturing faces. Further testing is needed (I have a GS bullet that I am going to try) but looks like users should be sure the cameras capabilities are sufficient to utilize the LPR functionality.

[iroesstrongarm]

This looks bery cool. Once they officially release the multi camera support i will absolutely get one or two.

[sensnowy]

Can you finally do heat maps, customer head count and all that be super useful ? Pleeeease

[PatrickStrand-ld]

I would like to see hikvision colourvue with ai port example Hikvision DS-2CD2T87G2-L ColorVu 8MP Bullet IP Camera 4mm (88°) fixed lens where mabe you can take hikvision ai detections that’s on the camera it’s self and ai port and how well this would work at night will the ai port capture the extra detections ? Or does one set of detections take over from another

[Lafiro]

What are the resolution ranges for a basic onvif versus a PTZ that will work with the AI port?

[rrkumar]

I plugged this into my G5 PTZ and it’s stopped recording events. I need to dig a bit deeper based on your video. Thanks Clay!

[kccustom]

I put one on the camera I use for LPR, it works pretty good during the day but I think the AI is looking for a vehicle before it checks for a plate because at night all the camera basically shows is the plate and the AI does not recognize it.

[lspoweredsx]

Would like to see a deep comparison of AI Pro vs G5 PTZ + AI Port

[ufomism]

Does the AI port enable audio recording for ONVIF cameras? Am I understanding correctly that the AI Port will support ONVIF cameras recording in 4k as long as the bitrate and fps isn’t too high? It’s weird they don’t mention 4k onvif in the support document.

[DlxyRekt]

Does this not make the AI cameras absolete? 5 ai turrets are $2000. 5 g5 turret ultra's + ai port is $850

[starecmirec]

When I have AI port paired with G5 bullet, face recognition unchecks itself after a few minutes. Looking for FW update as it seems to be a quickly cooked product.

[hamdicarlo]

will it work with G4 Doorbell (not the Pro)?

[taniksambo]

But some camera already have built in features like car detection and person detection. But unifi is not picking up on it so can't pick up those features. So they built this Ai port to get the features again. Couldn't they have some something to pass through the features that's already on the camera. The third party camera is what I'm talking about.

[jodycwilliams]

AI to the Doorbell isn't working at all for me. I've tried resetting them both, they are all updated, and nothing works.

Seems like it was not quite fully baked.