unifi-protect-video-downloader VS SynoAI

I use UniFi Protect Video Downloader to accomplish this.

I've had great success with https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader. Downloaded about 9 months of 8hr/day to do a construction timelapse.

I assume you are talking about the Protect video files being limited by the single hard drive in the UDM Pro SE. I have a cloudKey Gen plus so the drive is a 2.5". I put a 4 TB SSD in it which gives me about 30 days. For archival (90+ days) I independently record the RTSP streams to a computer that archives onto a Synology NAS with a couple of 12 TB spinners. It's not rocket science... just a bunch of bash scripts and ffmpeg. For a more professional method would check out this: https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader

I use https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader

Motion events would at least make it function in a act of god event. As is, takes more or less a hack to get that data -> https://github.com/danielfernau/unifi-protect-video-downloader

I second this approach. Action rules are pretty versatile thankfully. Personally I have setup event detections through DeepStack AI so I only get notified on specific objects. This is how I did it: https://github.com/djdd87/SynoAI/

Hi - you could use some SynoAI. Been using it for months and it works GREAT.

I run my various camera streams through SynoAI ( https://github.com/djdd87/SynoAI ), which is built on Surveillance Station, on my Synology NAS.