Ubiquiti - James Ridgway

UniFi Doorbell Chime Sounds with Amazon Alexa and Home Assistant

When I first got my UniFi G4 Doorbell, I originally set up Home Assistant to announce, "There is someone at the door," using Amazon Alexa. More recently, I have transitioned to playing a chime sound on Alexa when someone rings the doorbell. In this blog post, I outline

Home Automation

Smart CCTV Alerts using Object Detection with Frigate NVR and Coral AI

In the winter months, I get spammed with false CCTV motion alerts. With the winter months being darker, headlights from passing traffic often cast shadows and silhouettes that cause the motion zones to trigger when nothing is really happening. I run a Ubiquiti home network with G3 cameras – if we

Home Automation

UniFi G4 Video Doorbell with Home Assistant

I've wanted to upgrade our basic plug-in doorbell to a smart video doorbell ever since I started playing with home automation. Finally, I've gotten around to replacing the doorbell with a UniFi G4 Video Doorbell! So, it's out with the old: And in

Ubiquiti

Auto-renewing SSL Certificate for UniFi Cloud Key running UniFi OS using Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare DNS Validation

Back in May, I wrote about how Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare DNS Validation could be used to setup auto-renewing SSL certificates for the CloudKey [https://www.jamesridgway.co.uk/auto-renewing-ssl-certificate-unifi-cloud-key-lets-encrypt-cloudflare-dns-validation/] . The original blog post was written

Ubiquiti

Auto-renewing SSL Certificate for UniFi Cloud Key using Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare DNS Validation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE 30 December 2020 - This blog post was originally written for Version 1.x of the CloudKey firmware. Since this blog post a Version 2.x of the firmware (UniFi OS) has been release - please follow the newer method covered in this blog post [https://www.jamesridgway.co.uk/auto-

Networking

Home Network Upgrade: Adopting Ubiquiti

When we moved house last year I decided that I wanted to network it properly and have a good quality, reliable network. Over the last year and a bit, I'd seen a lot of talk of Ubiquiti on the internet and decided to give it a go myself.

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