Unifi G3 Pro

Drop resolution
If you don't have adequate tube not gonna be able to do much

Drop resolution and bit rate
 
On Protect...you change the Bitrate, and the FPS.
Done in properties of each camera, under General section.

Unless you have a strong internet connection.....viewing from the cloud while on prem is challenging. For viewing on prem, set the smart phone viewing app to hit the NVR on the local IP...runs smooth as butter with all settings on high.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
On Protect...you change the Bitrate, and the FPS.
Done in properties of each camera, under General section.

Unless you have a strong internet connection.....viewing from the cloud while on prem is challenging. For viewing on prem, set the smart phone viewing app to hit the NVR on the local IP...runs smooth as butter with all settings on high.
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thanks. the on prem viewing through the web interface is fine. I might even up the bit rate again. I think i'll give the remote viewing a miss for now.

The problem I'm facing now is the motion detection is mostly not working. I can see an event in which a person walks across the view. If we repeat the action, no recording. any number of repeat walks does not get recorded. There are some events that don't play back at all, just a black screen, the player doesn't play and yet the event thumbnail has an image.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Adjust zones...
And adjust the sensitivity, as well as time to trigger an event, time before, time after.
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tried various things, upped the sensitivity. it's just plain missing things. a person will walk from right to left and it gets captured. do it again, nothing. it's almost like there's something preventing it from capturing for so many seconds after the last capture. it also stops recording in the middle of the event, like there are people doing stuff and it just stops.

one recording saw a person moving from right foreground to left background and then it stops. She then returns a few seconds later but it didn't start recording until she was nearly out of the frame in the foreground. We did exactly the same trek a second time, but this time it continued recording the entire journey out and back again.

there's a large percentage of captures that don't play back at all or it won't start but I can move the slider along and then it will start. as if the recording is partially corrupted.

This doesn't feel like a settings issue because it's very inconsistent, repeat the same steps, get a different result. I wonder if this could be a flaky hard drive or corrupted database or something? Does the CK2 have any HDD diagnostics or database diagnostics?
 
I dunno...I haven't noticed that issue with ours. I have 8 cameras on our old beta CKGen2Plus.
I just looked at the events....and the top 3 include me walking briskly down the hall to go piss...and then 20 seconds later me walking back up the hall. The camera is basically just outside my office door..facing down the long hall.

I have used ours to look at events and never felt it missed something..always seems to catch people walking into a room and back out.

Mine cams are set to *Always Record, and other 3 settings are 1s, 2s and 2s in that order.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
I dunno...I haven't noticed that issue with ours. I have 8 cameras on our old beta CKGen2Plus.
I just looked at the events....and the top 3 include me walking briskly down the hall to go piss...and then 20 seconds later me walking back up the hall. The camera is basically just outside my office door..facing down the long hall.

I have used ours to look at events and never felt it missed something..always seems to catch people walking into a room and back out.

Mine cams are set to *Always Record, and other 3 settings are 1s, 2s and 2s in that order.
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always record? not motion events? So your cameras are always recording but it still registers 'events'? I might be trying that out today.

how is that working out storage-wise?
 
glennd said:
always record? not motion events? So your cameras are always recording but it still registers 'events'? I might be trying that out today.

how is that working out storage-wise?
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Works out fine....they record much like todays new server disaster recovery/nearly continuous backup services to....only the changed bits, not everything. Events makes note from the recordings. So it's efficient in space consumption.

I just went to check to see how much storage is used...but noticed they removed that in newer versions...I can't see a bar of how much of the storage is used. Anyways, with our 8 cams...I have it at 30 days and I don't recall it being very full in the past.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Works out fine....they record much like todays new server disaster recovery/nearly continuous backup services to....only the changed bits, not everything. Events makes note from the recordings. So it's efficient in space consumption.

I just went to check to see how much storage is used...but noticed they removed that in newer versions...I can't see a bar of how much of the storage is used. Anyways, with our 8 cams...I have it at 30 days and I don't recall it being very full in the past.
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Ok. So I guess the measure is how far back the timeline goes which is what we care about I suppose. I'll be watching that over the next few weeks.
 
Remember all these are pixel based, motion detection will suck

Do things like line crossing if able
 
Just got back from the customer. I explained how the Record Always worked in terms of variable bit rate and differential recording and that seemed to make sense. I showed him how to target an event then nudge it either side of the event to see what the actual event window doesn't show and that made him very happy. So we don't view the events as the final word on what happened and what didn't happen but simply as a tool to help us zone in on something we know happened, like when things go missing from the shelves.

I notice there's no zoom controls on the playback. However, we can find the frame we want, download a snapshot and load that into a photo viewer and use the tools there.

The customer is ecstatic over the quality of the image compared to the system he had previously. We can't read number plates but he's not so worried about that. Is there a way to improve resolution on a single camera so we can read number plates and logos on trucks etc?

So I think we've got it how we want it for the most part. The last question is how much history we'll get on the 1TB HDD.
 
glennd said:
We can't read number plates but he's not so worried about that. Is there a way to improve resolution on a single camera so we can read number plates and logos on trucks etc?.
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You'll often see me mention we use Unifi for indoor use and "light outdoor use"...and that they are not "license plate cams".
For plates..it's about placement (put cameras where cars have to pass..covering coming, and going...placed low)...if placement can't work, it's about a lot of money spent on cameras with higher end optics. Similar with faces...place low, not up high where all you record is the tops of heads.

For adjustments..eh, not too much. Denoise a little bit, because that can vary based on the environment each camera might be in.
 
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glennd said:
Is there a way to improve resolution on a single camera so we can read number plates and logos on trucks etc?
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Of course! You just need the software that is used on every police show I've ever watched on TV.

Boss: "Can you enhance that?"
Unreasonably skilled IT person: "Let me try something...." Types rapidly.
**magic software does it's thing in seconds**
Boss: "837.....We got a partial! Keep working!"
Unreasonably skilled IT person: "Ok - I'll let you know when I have something"
Boss: "...and run facial recognition on that guy with the baseball hat looking at his feet"
Unreasonably skilled IT person: "Will do! There's a reflection of him in the shop window, I can work with that!"
 
Couple of years ago I help a local police department setup a pilot program for street cameras at the borders of town. Being a pilot program they didn't have the funds for its own internet connection, I allowed them to piggy back off a connection I had installed in their basement that I use to feed internet to a school on an island 6 miles offshore (via Ubiquiti airFiber 5U radios).

Anyways...I remember going to the detectives office so they could show me the setup.
I look at this big screen TV on the wall..and the viewing workstation was some Dell Precision graphics workstation. He wakes the screen up...clicks on a camera in down town Mystic (on the build of Mystic Pizza..some of you may have seen that movie...although none of the movie showed the actual Mystic Pizza building..it was mostly filmed in a neighboring down). I look at the picture and I'm thinking to myself..eh..that's not that great. I mention something like "Gee I thought they'd be a sharper image!". He looks at me..and with a grin...starts scrolling in on a car. I guess the initial far view image was shown low res to conserve bandwidth or something...dunno why, but as he scrolled in..following the car...the image started getting sharp. He kept following the car about 1/4 mile as it started going over the drawbridge in downtown Mystic. By this time...I could tell you if the license plate was mounted with hex screws or philips screws..the image was THAT zoomed in! The cameras were about $4k a piece! We worked with them allowing them to mount on a lot of businesses around town that we did the IT for.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
You'll often see me mention we use Unifi for indoor use and "light outdoor use"...and that they are not "license plate cams".
For plates..it's about placement (put cameras where cars have to pass..covering coming, and going...placed low)...if placement can't work, it's about a lot of money spent on cameras with higher end optics. Similar with faces...place low, not up high where all you record is the tops of heads.

For adjustments..eh, not too much. Denoise a little bit, because that can vary based on the environment each camera might be in.
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I've just been reviewing the night-time video and it's just sensational! I was able to see the boss come back to shop well after dark, wander around doing stuff then leave again. He was clearly recognisable without any room lights on.
 
HCHTech said:
Of course! You just need the software that is used on every police show I've ever watched on TV.

Boss: "Can you enhance that?"
Unreasonably skilled IT person: "Let me try something...." Types rapidly.
**magic software does it's thing in seconds**
Boss: "837.....We got a partial! Keep working!"
Unreasonably skilled IT person: "Ok - I'll let you know when I have something"
Boss: "...and run facial recognition on that guy with the baseball hat looking at his feet"
Unreasonably skilled IT person: "Will do! There's a reflection of him in the shop window, I can work with that!"
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yes, we need one of those squeaky computers on the telly that can make something out of nothing.
 
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