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UniFi Protect in Home Assistant

unifiprotect part of Home Assistant since 2022.2

Local, push Set up in the user interface Quality: Platinum

UniFi Protect is an official Home Assistant integration for Alarm, Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Doorbell, Event, Hub, Light, Media player, Media source, Number, Select, Sensor, Siren and Switch. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Hub – several devices through one gateway or account
Quality scale
Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
Installations
24,568 (3.6 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Alarm, Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Doorbell, Event, Hub, Light, Media player, Media source, Number, Select, Sensor, Siren, Switch
Provides
Alarm control panel, Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Diagnostics, Event, Light, Media player, Number, Select, Sensor, Siren, Switch, Text
Maintained by
@RaHehl
Python packages
uiprotect==16.8.0

Setup

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  2. Click "Add integration" and search for UniFi Protect.
  3. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Known issues and fixes

22 open issues and 29 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for UniFi Protect in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.1.

Open

  • open Reported problem #181108 since September 2, 2026 · 3 reactions · 3 comments · #181108
  • open Reported problem #178669 since August 10, 2026 · 1 reaction · 8 comments · #178669
  • open Reported problem #178478 since August 7, 2026 · 1 reaction · 7 comments · #178478
  • open Reported problem #179503 since August 18, 2026 · 1 reaction · 5 comments · #179503
  • open Reported problem #164758 since March 4, 2026 · 1 reaction · 5 comments · #164758
  • open Reported problem #180925 since August 31, 2026 · 0 reactions · 8 comments · #180925
  • open Reported problem #178014 since August 2, 2026 · 0 reactions · 8 comments · #178014
  • open Reported problem #174067 since June 16, 2026 · 0 reactions · 7 comments · #174067

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.

Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →

Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration

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