Unifi protect motion sensor/switch unavailable when Recording is disabled on a camera

[Robbe-B]

The problem

I'm not entirely sure if this has something to do with the integration. But let me explain it anyway. I have these G3 Instant cameras inside my house since forever. Those are integrated in Unifi Protect and set to never record any footage. They are just used for live view and also motion detection. But now the motion sensing is unavailable trough HA as long as the camera is set to "Never Recording" (I have no clue since when, probably Unifi or HA update) In the unifi dashboard itself, I can still see the last motion events even if the cam is not recording any footage. This is a pity since my motion based automations stopped working.

Unifi Controller: UDM Pro v3.0.20 Unifi Protect Version: v2.7.34

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.5.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

UniFi Protect

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/unifiprotect

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[AngellusMortis]

Dupe of https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/89157 and https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/83912#issuecomment-1376061354

[AngellusMortis]

@home-assistant close

[Robbe-B]

@AngellusMortis thats not it , Privacy mode is off, disabled

[AngellusMortis]

Read the comments. Entities are disabled when they are not capable of detecting events. If you disable recording, no motion events are triggered and therefore the camera does not detect motion.

[Robbe-B]

Wait what :D, this functionality is removed ? Why is it still working inside the unifi protect dashboards then ?

[Robbe-B]

Oh nevermind, for the "Last Motion Detected" sensor this is still working, if you enable it yourself again.

@AngellusMortis thanks for the clarification 😄