re: General security camera discussion (was "Unifi Protect security cameras")

The app really is great, I don't know why other companies can't put out anything close. The only real complaint I have about the app is a detail about notifications. Notifications on the whole are excellent, but I really need to configure settings on a per detection zone basis rather than per camera. For example, I want to draw a zone to detect vehicles in my driveway, and another zone to detect vehicles passing on the road, but I only want notifications for the ones in my driveway. I can't do that. I can only turn on notifications about motion, people, and/or vehicles per camera. Right now I get around that by having a regular motion zone on the road, but I would really like it to classify as vehicles so they appear as such on the detections page.


Something to note about the app, by default live and recorded video play at an adaptive bitrate for performance and data consumption reasons. You can force high quality viewing if you need it, but it's kind of a pain to switch it on then back to automatic/adaptive again. Downloaded clips will be high quality though (except for timelapse clips).