Please do a video setting up the cameras on their own VLAN. We REALLLLLY need that. Thx for the vid!

@user-nh3gu1ge3d

3 жыл бұрын

Just console into the switch and type "vlan x" then go to the switchport and type switchport access vlan x and you're done. I don't own this box but that's generally how switches work (cisco, adtran, etc)

@Spooceaduece

3 жыл бұрын

I would benefit from a video showing that as well.

Please consider making a video showing how one takes a NVR with a camera and say a doorbell and a UniFi switch to create a best practice configuration with camera/doorbell/NVR VLAN isolation and firewall rules (say on a UDM-Pro) to isolate the camera network while being able to access the NVR camera recordings AND interact with the doorbell. Your point about not allowing someone who manages to gain physical access to a Ethernet plug for a camera/doorbell is an excellent one. Please consider making a video to show the VLAN / firewall rules setup for such a best practice system.

@nasaspacemanwho6711

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever find a video going over this process. In the same boat.

You are an incredible presenter.. you deliver the information clearly and brilliantly... I really appreciate your videos

Wow you weren’t kidding, you really did have back log of videos waiting for the new editing rig. Bring on the techno lust.

Thanks for the explanation of the users and roles!

I just set this up on Tuesday. Where was this video then?! :) haha, I'm glad I have this video as a benchmark for my installation. Thank you!

Glad you made the point on putting the Protect system on a dedicated VLAN. That's something you can't / shouldn't really do on a UDM-Pro serving as an NVR (unless you want the associated headaches down the road), so this is a key differentiator for the UNVR.

@travisharper8268

2 жыл бұрын

I want to create the vlan and I think i could figure that part out, but the firewall rules would be a challenge. Maybe Chris can make a video of the setup.

@greggcollins1821

2 жыл бұрын

​@@travisharper8268 Have fun. You probably can get it to work. For a while. Then something will come along from UI that breaks it. I still put the UNVR's on dedicated VLAN's on some projects, but the new UP-Sense Bluetooth accessory is an example of something that doesn't completely work right if the AP that it connects to is on a separate VLAN from Protect.

Another super helpful Unifi setup video from Crosstalk. Thanks very much, Chris!

Thanks for this video - really clear and detailed. Very helpful!

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

Great video thanks, would be nice to have a small update to explain the Firewall rules involved and setting them up for best practice.

Thanks Chris, great video!

Really good and clear video. Thanks!

Great job with unvr setup!

Chris, I'd love to see a video detailing a full Protect config with the cameras and UNVR on a separate VLAN.

@stephene3179

2 жыл бұрын

YES! I'll be attempting this next week when my UDMP and wifi6 AP's arrive. Luckily my best friend is a network admin so I can get free help haha

Nice large desk mat. Hiding the scratches from the first new house desk scratch equipment spin. :)

@cbeomjun

3 жыл бұрын

I think that's the LinusTechTips desk mat.

Love the T-shirt, Chris!

Would love if you could redo video on VLAN segregation on full unifi setup

Thank you so much!

Great video. Have you figured out a way to record cameras on 2 appliances concurrently? eg. On a UDM Pro and on a UNVR?

Hello Chris, Thank you for doing this and all your videos, really enjoy them. i heard that the UNVR and the cameras perform better in terms of playback and time lapse on the default main LAN (192.168.1.X) rather than a VLAN that you've created. do you know if this is true, have you tested?

Can you share examples of the firewall rules / lan setup you used to have the two different networks to improve security?

Awesome video Chris, I actually just ordered one of these and am waiting for it to arrive. I'm happy they finally support RAID 10. At 14:15, what you're describing is RAID 0+1 (mirror of stripes), while RAID 10 is a stripe of mirrors. Really makes no difference when it comes to four drives however. There's gotta be that one guy in the comments splitting hairs, eh?

@shubinternet

3 жыл бұрын

It is vital to stripe the mirrors and not mirror the stripes. You don’t want to break both the stripes and the mirrors if one disk dies.

@matthewonciul3803

3 жыл бұрын

@@shubinternet Mirrored stripes (raid 0+1) can be rebuilt and does offer redundancy if a disk fails, but doesn't scale as nicely. It looks like this NVR supports proper RAID 10 (striped mirrors).

@shubinternet

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewonciul3803 if you mirror the stripes and lose a disk, then you’ve broken the disk with the stripe, and then you’ve also broken the mirror across the stripes. Conversely, if you stripe the mirrors and lose a disk, you retain the stripe across both mirror devices, even though one of them is in reduced redundancy mode. I’ve done it both ways, and RAID 0+1 is just a big bag of hurt. RAID 10 has its own problems, but it’s not as bad.

I love the shirt. I just watched Blazing Saddles a few days ago.

Very useful video, thank you for putting it together! I have a couple of questions for you: 1. If I already have Protect running on UDM Pro with a handful of cameras, and I just bought a UNVR, is there a clean migration path UNVR? Or do I have to start over? I don’t care about preserving saved video, mainly settings / users etc… 2. If I start with let us say 3 3TB drives, can I swap in larger capacity drives in the future as the drives die off? Or do I have to rebuild the whole storage array?

Can you use this device as an extra drive bay for dream Machine pro? If not can users on dream machine pro auto replicate from there or do both work a completely separate setup in the network?

Chris - When you want to look at live cameras or recordings from outside of the office (where it's installed), is there an iphone app that talks direct to your NVR or is there some ubiquiti cloud in the middle somewhere?

@Crosstalk Solutions FYI Ubquiti sells the 8TB purple drives on their store which are $60 cheaper than if you buy them at the retailer.

I had awful trouble adopting cameras across switches ( HP & Unifi) on the same vlan, worked fine on the same switch thou.

Great video. The biggest problem for some users which have more then 1 Location with unvrs and one viewport to check all. Have you try to view cameras from different protect account on your viewport? Of course sharing is provided.

Great Video Chris as usual. Setting up a network for a new House. I set up the NVR and did a vlan called "security" through the UDMP. I can't change or config to a static IP either through the NVR locally, remotely or via the app?? It is 10g spf+ through the unifi Agg? any ideas why

Super great video!! I noticed that you can clip part of a recording and download it. I want to use these to record a game that is being played within the view of a camera but people may not move. Do you know if there a setting that would allow me to have the camera to record full time or could I adjust the "start recording" and "stop recording" such that I make the motion just 1 sec and then record a lot BEFORE the motion and a lot AFTER the motion -- hoping that it would have enough motion to record for an hour straight. Thanks and great job again!

Great video, but 2 years later they have changed so much with the OS that it would benefit us to have an updated walkthrough. I had to do a bunch of searching around to figure out where they buried the different settings in the changed menus. The "best" is how notifications are now under logs.

you can use ethernet on SFP+ you can run 10Gb over Cat6 just need the right module. SFP does not mean fiber or DAC only, you can get a SFP+ copper module ;)

Have Cloud key gen 2 plus and want to upgrade. What’s the path? Also can you do a v lan set up for the surveillance network? Also an IOT and family v lan if you’re into that?

Geofencing can be used for notifications. You can set it to only notify you if a specific user(s) aren't at the location.

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

I don't see that option in the 'My Alerts' section...maybe that's a beta feature?

@turner46

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrosstalkSolutions It's not beta. I'm not at home to check if it is still in the newest release, but here is their support page for the feature: help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037982314-UniFi-Protect-Configure-location-based-activity-alerts The Unifi Protect app on your phone will need the location permission turned on.

Can you put both ports into a link aggregation group at the back for redundancy or can it be set up as a hotswap using LACP ?

Great video! My complaints are I wish that UI would make the phone app work with out remote access enabled, and also to be able to set up new devices with out an SSO. I do however think this a great product!

@whazup7052

3 жыл бұрын

Chris, please expand on Nick’s items in a future video. You showed the Remote Access toggle in the video, but it would be helpful if you could expand on that in the future. Ubiquity’s security was recently compromised so I’d like to disable this, but it seems like this is required for the app to work on my phone when away.

Great video. I do have a question. Currently I'm using my UDMPro with the hard drive installed I have 6 camera running. Once I connect UNVR will it redirect all the feed to the UNVR device rather then the UDMPRO? Or do I have to add the camera to the UNVR again? Plus once everything is working correctly should I take the hard drive out of the UDMPro and save it?

Do you have any videos on how to configure the firewall to allow traffic from the NVR vlan to the main LAN?

Can all of the cameras utilize smart detections? I have a few G3s and am considering upgrading from Video to a CKG2+ and Protect specifically for the Smart Detect features.

Can you walk thru migration from cloud key gen2 plus to dedicated NVR? Also can we do a vlan guide. Setting up surveillance vlan and the acls to make it work. Bonus if we could talk about an IOT vlan with same concept?

Kudos for your very accurate videos, as usual, Chris. Just one question: what am I supposed to do when I find a UNVR connected to a UDM-Pro? I mean: should I configure the Protect app inside the UNVR or the one inside the UDM-Pro? The situation is: a UDM-Pro, a UNVR and a PoE switch with a bunch of cameras and access points attached. Should I configure both Unifi systems with the same UI account? I am a bit lost here...

@1636patriot

Жыл бұрын

Great question....did you get an answer?

@carlocarlo7902

Жыл бұрын

@@1636patriot No, but I learnt from experience. You configure the Protect app in the UNVR. Eventually, all cameras and the UNVR will appear as “clients” or “Protect Devices” (depends on Unifi Network version) in the UDM-Pro Network app. That’s it.

Hey Chris, Thanks for posting this video and all your other videos they're just brilliant. I had a question regarding internet bandwidth usage for each camera. Per 1080p and 4K cameras what would you say the usage is for each camera and how would you calculate required internet speed for say 10-20-30 cameras?

@maggotDTV

2 жыл бұрын

Zero. This system is ran on the intranet (IE, the traffic does not leave your network), not the internet.

@benwells8106

2 жыл бұрын

@@maggotDTV remote viewing of cameras. This is where the issue lies. ??

Since this unit is for a client, would you make yourself a user to administer the device thru SSO?

A great video as usual. A lot has changed in the two years since you made this. A lot of the admin pages are different. I was going to set up SSH. When I clicked on it, I got scare dialog saying doing so would void my warranty. Is this something you can do if the unit hangs in update mode? I don't want to void the warranty on a new uint.

27:25 The "image quality" effects the bitrate you can check the actual bitrate in the about section of the camera. I had the g4 Pro and at 100% image quality it uses a 16mbit stream, I reduced this to 34% which makes the stream 6mbit. I then reduce the framerate to 6fps so the quality is almost identical. This not only helps storage capacity but the speed of scrubbing through the timeline. My settings allows the scrubbing to take 2 or 3 seconds instead of 10+ seconds that I was getting with the defaults. it'll also help 4k streaming over the internet. The 720p preview was unaffected by the reduced framerate.

@travisharper8268

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I made those changes; I really can't tell the difference in quality.

Just got my NVRPro and 7 16TB Segate AI drives today. Currently using a NVR with 4 of the same drives. Have you tried moving from a NVR to NVRPro? Wondering if I can restore the pro with a backup file, use the original 4 drives with 3 new ones and keep my video history. Currently running 32 g3 cameras always recording with motion detection and smart detection on. I’m getting about 60 days of storage now and need at least 90 along with adding a few cameras soon.

What about 3rd party cameras or more surveillance applications like let's say a mall? Which some feature a virtual matrix you can set up.

Hi Chris I'm new to unifi. great video . I added 2 cameras to my house .how do I give remote access with out all of the motion notifications going out to every one . would like every one to be able to see what's happening remotely. have one dome and one bullet with a gen. 2 plus cloud key and 4 ac pro access points . will be adding two more bullets and a UNVR at some point thank you

Does the privacy zone stay where it is put location based on PTZ cameras? Or does it work as a filter on top of the image moving around when u turn camera? In Finland u are not allowed to record naibours and rarely u can position PTZ cameras so they record only your own property in every angle and direction.

Excellent video. I know the notifications have improved but not sure if geofencing is fixed as I just turned it off. That new user template hopefully they have provided some as logging into acc to set up views is time consuming for an admin

Only problem I have with Unifi protect right now is you need remote access on if you want to view remotely from the phone app. Even if connected through a VPN Into your business

Main benefit of surveillance drives are longevity, vibration resistance, 24/7 operation times, consistent writing, power efficiency, etc 😄

I ended up installing apcupsd via putty so I can instruct the UNVR to perform a graceful shutdown when my APC UPS reaches a certain battery level. It works great. The problem is that for whatever reason, the UNVR will remove the app after a while (perhaps during a firmware update). Would you know why this happens? Thanks.

Won't putting all your cameras and NVR on a separate VLAN create a lot of work for the router? In my case I am using a UDM-PRO for UNIFI and have a separate UNVR with 17 cameras...

Hi Chris. How can I setup to record 4k always? I just can't find this option, while I can see 4k view option on my G4 cameras.

For my home I have cameras, access kits and voip phones. Shouls I stick with the udm pro. Or should I add unvr for the cameras. With unvr can I still acces cameras from voip phones? What do you think?

Is there a migration path from a CloudKey Gen2+ to the UNVR? Will the UNVR update the RAID automatically if you add a drive at a later date? As an example, I initially add a 4TB WD Purple, if I add a second 4TB drive, will it automatically change to mirrored? If I start with one, then go to 3, will it automatically update to RAID 5?

Had a problem using both the 10g and 1g at the same time. I was using the 10g for the camera network and the 1g for the access for the viewers. Haven't tested since I've updated. The unvr was getting confused on reboot as to which was the gateway. Just fyi

@Mixiter55

3 жыл бұрын

I missed this thank you.

any idea how many UniFi Protect ViewPorts you can run in the network? I have 3 different buildings all networked together that I would like the cameras displayed in

I'm looking to use this system to protect my home since I have poor internet speeds in my area. DSL 5Mbps down and less than 1 up. I know you say this requires internet to work but will it still work with my speeds?

Can you use both ethernet ports at the same time. The 10g sfp port in its own vlan with only the cameras and no access to the internet. Then the 1g port for remote access....my guess is the cameras may have difficulty updating. May be an interesting test. 🤔

I think I found the answer to this but can you use other branded cameras I.e Amcrest. I have a handful of amcrest cameras set up in my building and I'm completely happy with the image quality. Currently using Blue Iris for my recordings happy with the software it's just pushing my pc way too much so looking for another solution.

i wonder if ubiquiti will come out with a software u can download on windows server where u can use cameras but it installs the software on any server u want abit like milestone xprotect etc.

Great video but what Switch should be used?

Hi! We are considering getting the UNVR to have more storage space and redundancy (RAID) for security video recording ... We have the CloudKey+ With 1TB HDD which runs our Unifi Protect. Does the UNVR make the CloudKey+ redundant from a video recording perspective? 💭 Thanks as always for your great videos! ❤

The video you should have made was step by step on how to migrate Protect from a UDM Pro to the UNVR, I'm sure a big chunk of your viewer's would appreciate that info, I know I would. Thanks

@peterg.8245

3 жыл бұрын

Or the Cloudkey

@dohyea6093

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterg.8245 yes please

@bmg7656

3 жыл бұрын

Yep - asked this on another video as well, but no reply. We have the UDMPro but looking at changing to the UNVR to increase storage capacity. Only have approx 10 days available with our 12 cameras and would ideally like at least 20-24….

@rogerf3622

3 жыл бұрын

I wish there was. I never found a viable migration path. I ended up resetting each camera and adopting them into the NVR. Unfortunately you lose all the camera settings. I tried installing a saved configuration file from the old Protect system and installing it the on the NVR Protect and was unsuccessful. I wasted more time searching for a solution and trying them rather than just reseting and adopting.

@1636patriot

Жыл бұрын

@@rogerf3622 so that worked? Do I need a new protect app for my phone too? Right now I have it set up thru the udmpro....just set up the NVR and it sees my cameras but asks for a password to adopt

I have my UNVR plugged into my switch and also have the UDM-Pro (switch plugged into UDM-Pro via the 10GB SFP port, which I know is dumb since the switch only has the 1GB SFP port), however, should I swap the NVR connection from Ethernet to use the 10GB SFP+ port to the UDM-Pro? Is the benefit worth it? I plan on having 4 or so cameras and I'm worried the spead of the 1GB/s connection is going to bottleneck the throughput of 4+ 4K cameras.

Can you connect the NVR to a UDM Base and then just log into your cloud account and see both the UDM and NVR on the dashboard....I assume so ?

Does the unvr provide the protect app. Could you use it with UniFi cameras with out any of the network gear from them. For instance if a small company has a network and switches all setup not UniFi and just wants a camera system would they only need the UNVR and cameras.

I guess this would the be the best next step for me I have a Unifi Dream Machine And I want to add some cameras lol

So if u have UMDP can you use that hdd in the R5 pool also ? Can you run one instance on the protect on the UDMP and one the NVR, or how does that work ?

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

No - you can only use the HDD's on board the UNVR itself. You could have cameras attached to both the UDMP and UNVR on the same network...but why?

In a system with 8-10 cameras do you feel this has enough processing power to scrub through and review footage without much headache?

@quank32

3 жыл бұрын

Running 11 cameras now and it runs great

Great video as always however, my OCD has me going nuts with the third drive bay door being a slightly odd shade of silver. Maybe switch it out with the UDM-Pro's single drive caddy...? Please. ;)

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

Funny - I noticed that too. Luckily this is going to be installed into a closet...so it won’t get seen much.

Trying to figure out how you intermingle Protect and Access, with the cloud key you see both cameras but with this NVR its like you only see Protect and you can't activate a Camera when door bell rings.

Can you have multiply NVRs in the same system?

Thanks for this good explaination video! I got the UNVR PRO version and i love it but for some reason trying to login from outside my network it wont let me true the protect app? Do you need to port forward or setup vpn to login into it ?

@rogerf3622

3 жыл бұрын

Make sure you are using your Unifi credentials in the app and not your local IP address. There is no need to open any ports or setup a VPN.

@Kandalftjen

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogerf3622 Thx for the info but it wont work i've beign doing that from the start. When i try to connect the circle is going half way then it stops and need to retry. I think i'l have to make a post on there forum and see what the problem is.

We have been thinking about upgrading to unifi protect. On our current system one of the exterior cameras is by a night light so it records non stop all night long due to insects flying. Is there a way in protect not to pick up on the insects or at least not as often?

@kjartanB

3 жыл бұрын

Smart detection, person detection works great, can also detect vehicles

If UNVR is use with UDM-PRO, the HDD feature in the UDM-PRO will be disabled automatically?

So, once I setup users, can I unplug the WAN cable and leave the unit to work just on a LAN with static IPs all around? We have the need to keep an NVR and cameras segregated on their on LAN with no Internet access and currently VLANs are not an option. Thanks!

maybe this is a silly question, but do i need to have a unifi poe switch for all this to work? i have a pretty good buffalo poe switch already...could i just get the nvr and camera, and be set?

I will be putting my UNVR in a bedroom closet. I am a little concerned about drive noise. Does anyone have a suggestion for some reasonably quiet drives?

OMG those mouse clicks !!! grrr

Future video suggestion: You briefly mentioned setting up your cameras on a separate subnet or VLAN to isolate them from the rest of your network so somebody couldn't knock down your camera and Jack in.... I previously attempted to do this with the edge max router, And even when I was on the guest network, I still had full access to the main network... So tutorial on how ubiquity setup has its nuances for this particular arena would be helpful... I have a friend who just put in the brand new all-in-one NVR in router solution from ubiquity and he had similar challenges on that device...

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

Check out my ‘Secure IoT VLAN’ video!

@CopeBUILT

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrosstalkSolutions that was hugely helpful... my brain is spinning with how to use those tips to improve our network security. Thank you so much for responding!!

What's the best way to have a continuous view on the UNVRs? We have it running in an Edge browser 24/7 and after a few days, things slow down and we have to reboot the UNVR. Is there a best practice to avoid having to do this?

what if you use a static address network instead of dhcp to begin with how do you change it?

Isn't there certain problems relating RAID5 with large capacity HDs?

Do you get any benefits from using SSDs or is the constant writing and rewriting to the drives going to limit their lifespan?

The UNVR & PRO NUNVR are devices is listed as a stand alone device on the UniFi dashboard.

So my unvr on its own vlan is attempting to access an AP on the LAN and is blocked by firewall rules setup to isolate vlans... I also have similar issues with a connect display in protect mode. Is this something to address or ignore?

Can you put protect on a separate vlan like you recommend if i have UDM Pro i stead of unvr ?

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

No, I don't believe you can. The UDM-Pro is an all-in-one kind of appliance...I'm not aware of any option to segregate out Protect and related devices into their own VLAN. Or rather, you could put the CAMERAS into their own VLANs, but then some of the auto-detect features of Protect would not work...it would be a tricky (and not recommended) setup.

@Mixiter55

3 жыл бұрын

The cameras and NVR should be on the same network and vlan. Otherwise all of the traffic has to route though your router (without layer3 switch) learned this the hard when my udm pro cpu maxed out. So far no way to have udm Pro and cameras on different networks.

@Michaellpl

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrosstalkSolutions thanks for answering the question in your new video ! 👀

is there a procedure to migrate from an existing unifi video setup ?

Unify unvr or sinology nas for cameras surveillance?

Can it use other brand cams?

Hi Chris, i like the idea that you put the nvr on a v-lan , but how do you do this if your only have the udm pro unit , thanks

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

Check out the other comment where I answered this question.

@RETRO-CONSOLE-GAMER

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrosstalkSolutions Thanks Bud , great vid by the way

Can you use non ubiquity cameras (onvif) with this?

@CrosstalkSolutions

3 жыл бұрын

No you can not.

They really need to allow us to use RAID0 on these!

Can you help me if I had set up a system with dream machine pro...usw pro and was running cameras....finally I was able to purchase the NVR( like hitting the lottery!).... now I'm following your video but to adopt a camera...it is asking for a password, etc....do I need to forget the cameras and reconnect? Please help

Will this Protect UNVR compactable with G3 Dome ?