Ubiquiti G4 Pro Doorbell New Features

With the new release of Unifi Protect, originally featured when this doorbell was release almost 2 years ago, it does came slightly late than never. This doorbell now support fingerprint and NFC.

To use this features, you will need to have some home automation or have a Unifi Access setup. I am not an office owner and only a simple home owner. So I do have my smart home setup using Homey Pro. Why I did not choose other platform, I will leave that to another article. I was able to refer to a video using Home Assistant and Ubiquiti G4 Pro and decide to try it on Homey Pro.

Back to our main topic. The registration of fingerprint and NFC is very simple, you can just add them easily and follow the screen procedure on the G4 Pro doorbell.

When you click on Add New (fingerprint), you will get a prompt and select a user. If the user is new, you can just add one. You do not need to assign any roles, it can be just a simple user with a name.

Press and register your fingerprint on the reader till you reach 100%. Tilt and turn your finger so it capture the bigger surface area.

Choose a user or add a new one.

Once that is done you will be able to just press the read and it will recognize the user and displaying the user name.

Unifi Protect with this update also include a new notification manager call Alarm Manager.

I created an alarm for known fingerprint and push out a Webhook. You can either push that to Slack or for my case, custom to my Homey Pro.

With my Smart Home integration with Homey Pro, I will then unlock my door and send a message to my user as a notification to my Homey mobile app.

I will not recommend any NFC card access, as it only register typical NFC card, those can be easily duplicated. It can register encrypted ones e.g. HID, but it cannot read from it after to use as an access. It is a bummer.

A video on how it looks like. A next article to show my Webhook integration into Homey Pro. 

p.s. my fingerprint sensor on my smart lock is no longer working so this feature comes just in time instead of number pad access which is very cumbersome.

Nikon Keymission 360: How to get it upload to Facebook and Youtube to work

Yes I made a 360 camera purchase but no those that most people would have got their hands on.  I decide to give Nikon a try though I am very attracted to Ricoh Theta.

I did a couple of review read online though Nikon does not support out of the box upload for Facebook 360 app, YouTube 360 video, it does support Facebook 360 video.  Strangely not the photo but video.  For 360 photo, Facebook have a list of compatible 360 cameras listed here.

So how do I get my picture on my Keymission to work on Facebook and video to work in YouTube?  For a start you just need to add a parameter in the picture for Facebook to allow the picture to work.  Found this article that mention it.  Basically to use a EXIFTOOL to add a ProjectionType.

• exiftool -ProjectionType="equirectangular" photo.jpg

For Youtube to work with 360 video, you got to download a metadata tool from YouTube here.

I have tested it on both Facebook and YouTube with picture and video and it works.