Testing Ubiquiti's AI Port with my HikVision Camera

Let try Ubiquiti's newest product in the UniFi Protect line up the AI port. We can test this in both the day and night with a HikVision camera and see the results. We also test the G4 instant and see how well thats works with the AI Port.

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00:00 What is the AI Port?
01:43 AI Port Settings + Assigning Camera
04:08 Day Time Testing with HikVision
06:14 Night Time Testing with HikVision
07:26 Connecting a Ubiquiti camera to the AI Port

[myytvideos]

Thank you! I've been wanting to see if the AI Port would enable LPR for 3rd party cameras.

[simonc]

I received my AI port yesterday and have so far been using it with my Dahua Starlight PTZ dome. I plan to add my Reolink doorbell to it once I can add more than one camera. I had wondered how the AI port would deal with the Dahua’s own smart motion tracking but so far it seems to happily track the motion that the camera is also tracking. Took a little while to convince the alarm manager to show the AI-enhanced Dahua in the “Scope” list but seems to be working ok now.

[LordSaliss]

If you happen to receive the AI LPR when its released for a review, Id appreciate a follow up video to that review with a comparison of the AI LPR and a HikVision LPR+AI Port combo for comparison.

[candlestrm]

Is it also possible with ONVIF Cameras to mask areas for privacy reasons or can you select only a part of the video that will be analyzed for motion AI detections? is it also possible to get an alarm when someone crosses a "line" which you create?

[jamest]

I have mine setup on my Reolink Doorbell for now. I also am going to test it with my Annke dual camera 180 deg camera as well.

[Polkster]

There is no resolution limitation on the five Ubiquiti cameras. You can do up to five 4K UniFi Protect cameras per AI Port. You just cannot do any of the existing AI cameras like the AI 360 camera.

[hunseder]

I wonder if it would do LPR and facial with the AI360 cams? I have two of those on property and they are the best located for scanning those who come and go. My other front property cams see the front of a vehicle (but we don't use front plates here), so a pull-in and pull-out would not reveal the plate, but the AI360 would have seen them. I know the Viewport didn't properly handle them, it would not dewarp the video, so it was returned. If you or a follower have tried it with the AI360, I would love to know the results!

[DaMook]

I want one for my doorbell and two or maybe three g5 turrets.

[anpr]

thanks, good review, great product. but it will be embedded in cameras if not already

[bgted]

I have my AI port setup on my G4 Doorbell POE and it works, but there must be a bug, as it never generates a thumbnail. The thumbnail is just blank, you can click on the blank thumbnail to see the video of the face recognition, but thumbnail is bugged. It appears to only do this on the doorbell, as I have an AI port setup on a G4 Pro and thumbnails are working fine when it generates an event for face recognition.

[David-hmd]

Got my AI port today
Using with a G5 turret in driveway. Its mounted kind of high so I'm not sure if its going to pick up plates going to test tomorrow ..it seemed to struggle making out face detections. I really had to look right at it to get to pick up my face.

[darthtomas_admin]

Did you turn WDR on Hikvision camera ? It would let you see reg number with IR on.

[Saturn]

How are you getting it to show which person? I have AI Detections on my Flex G5 cameras, but I haven't seen anything like this in my UniFi NVR. Does this only work through the AI add-on tool?

[ivo_huth]

Is it possible to choose the 4K quality ONVIF streams of the Hikvision with this unit?

[craigsamuels]

Am new to the UniFi system. I already got a USM-SE, and my cctv system is hikvision with the nvr. What I would like to know is, if I unplugged my hikvision cameras from the nvr and plugged it directly into the AI port, will it work without any configuration of the cameras? I want to get rid of my hikvision nvr and have everything under my UDM-SE, instead of having two separate systems. Keep up the good work.

[taniksambo]

Most of the 3rd party camera have certain detection and recognition features. Can't they just enable that instead of having to buy the Ai port? But I see why they would sell you the Ai port to make money.

[procekim]

i think the usage is rather limited. Sure it does detect, but then there is nothing you can do about it. IFTT would be great if you could for example create a scene or action. Car arriving Reads number plate and opens a gate. Hik vision or dahua does have this already. This device should cost 50 max. Issue is also reading during night, IR is useless detecting faces. Hik or Dahua does have already colour night vision.

[tedev]

wow the G4 WiFi has a terrible image quality. i wasn't expecting it to be that bad.
as for the AI port.... until i see the firmware that supports multiple cameras.... this thing will be too expensive for what it does.
if they enable the multi-camera support.... sure the price will justify the product.
I hope we could do like 1 Onvif and 1 Protect camera but i don't see that happening for some reason. probably marketing...

I can't wait to see what the AI Key will bring to the game