It looks like better ONVIF support is coming to UniFi Protect

Arjun said:

I wonder if there is any tangible difference when it comes to performance and load times on the G2 NVRs given the fact that they have 4 times the RAM as the UNVR and 256SSD cache. It gets prohibitively expensive when you add additional AI Ports and opt for the G2 NVR. Presently, I only use 2 AI Ports, 1x for Legacy UniFi Cameras, and 1x for the dedicated LPR

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I haven't tried out the G2 yet but when it comes to standalone NVR from Hikvision, Dahua and Luminys, when the detection is done by the NVR itself then you will start noticing slowdowns when switching menus and loading video streams. I imagine it would be the same for the G2. Trying to have one unit do more things at once like accepting the video stream, sending the video and metadata to the hard drive for logging. Logging all the metadata so it could be searched.... Creating the thumbnail for everything and now having the G2 doing the metadata generation.... I guess that is why for ONVIF cameras the G2 won't do LPR or face. Not enough processing power.

There is never a one unit fits all it seems and that's why I run multiple units. Unifi Protect with its set of data. Hikvision NVR with its metadata that it is getting from the Hikvision cameras and a Dahua NVR with its metadata from those Dahua cameras. Yeah... pretty redundant but..... Here is a true story..... A year ago I had someone teaching their mother in law to drive and instead of braking, she floored it and smashed through my fence into the side of my house. The Dahua NVR went offline as that wall where the car came through was where it was housed cutting the power. The Unifi and Hikvision units are situated in other parts of the house and still recording. Ever since I have continued this concept. Better safe than sorry. Well.... I guess it didn't help that I have different brands of cameras and I wanted to see the metadata from each ecosystem from each set of cameras hence so many recorders....

lewic said:

I've never had my cloudkey corrupt itself so I may just be lucky. I have had my cloudkey gen 2 plus running for roughly over five years now. Now I have had issues with it though. Mine is one of the original versions of those that has the battery that goes bad and bloats/expands. Had to tear the whole thing down and pull out that battery. It is now battery-less. Also the POE went out on it so not able to power it up using POE. The port still passes data though. Just have to use a USB-C adapter to power it up. Also the mechanical hard drive showed it was dying after a year of cooking inside that enclosure. Replaced it with an SATA SSD and no issues along with less heat overall after that.

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Looks like I jinxed myself saying this the other day. Yesterday it showed my network was down but all the AP's and NAS were still running. Went to check my server room and the cloudkey was showing the "fallback IP address". Unplugging the network cable from the cloudkey did trigger a reaction on the display as it says "ethernet disconnected". I originally thought the port finally died since it was an old cloudkey. Plugging the cable back in it still went to the fallback IP address. Wasn't able to log into this address either. Ended up having to factory reset the unit and then load a backup config once it rebooted. Strange. Still don't know what caused it. Don't see anything in the logs as the unit was reset so not sure if there was an update that caused it. I honestly doubt it as it was in the middle of the day instead of the middle of the night where I set it to automatically update. Now.... The unit does say that Unifi Protect... the cameras were maxed out but stats on the cloudkey don't show high cpu usage or ram usage was at 80%. Maybe a sudden rush of motion on my cameras triggered an influx of data going into the cloudkey as I have my cameras set on variable bitrate? Hard to say what happened.