unifi-protect-video-downloader VS unifios-utilities

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 just purchased the unifi express and I have been researching its capabilities and more specifically ad blocking functionality. I have found that people are complaining about the ad blocking abilities not being very granular and referring to unifios-utilities and running something like pi hole or adguard as an alternative. Can I safely assume that these options will be available to the unifi express?

https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities <- this cannot be more simple to digest. Stop spreading FUD (and learn to code if you still don't understand how Github works and what is linked)

Install on boot script: https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities/tree/main/on-boot-script

(https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities)

Not natively but they run dnsmasq so you can use unifios-utilities with an on-boot-script to modify dnsmasq’s config and add whatever records you need, including wildcard