Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · UniFi · Cameras & Doorbells · ~$99 (Price at the time we researched it — $99.00 on Ubiquiti's own US store, read 2026-10-08 and purchasable ('Add to Cart'). Two figures worth carrying rather than one: the same page shows '$116.00 Surcharges incl.' (it showed $113.00 on 18 August 2026), so the checkout number is higher than the headline. ⚠ AND THE CONSOLE IS THE REAL PRICE, so we put it here rather than in a footnote: UniFi Protect requires 'A UniFi Console running Protect' by Ubiquiti's own statement, so this doorbell is not a standalone product — and a console bought without a drive records nothing, since Ubiquiti states 'Compatible storage disk is only required to save recordings.' The cheapest Protect-capable console we have verified is the UniFi Cloud Gateway Max at $279 as configured on 2026-08-17. Realistic entry for a doorbell that actually records is therefore roughly $99 + $279 + storage + running an Ethernet cable to the door, not $99. Never treated as a live price.)
⚠ Similar names, different products: ⚠ 'Lite' is a price and wiring tier here, NOT a picture tier, and reading it as one gets this shelf backwards. Ubiquiti sells three doorbells at once: this Doorbell Lite (UVC-Doorbell-Lite, $99, powered over its network cable only) has a 5MP 1920×2560 sensor — a HIGHER resolution than either model above it, both of which Ubiquiti specifies at 2MP 1600×1200: the G4 Doorbell ($199, Wi-Fi on a doorbell transformer) and the G4 Doorbell Pro ($299, with a second package-detection camera and a built-in display). What 'Lite' actually costs you is the wireless option and the extras, not the image. Note also that the store lists this product under a colour code — 'UVC-Doorbell-B' for black — rather than under the model number on its specification sheet.
Compatibility at a glance
Does it work with your platform?
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Required for the device
Ubiquiti hub or bridge
Setup and sources
A UniFi OS Console running Protect, per Ubiquiti's stated requirement. ⚠ On this model the wiring is a second dependency and it is the one people underestimate: the specification sheet gives this doorbell a '10/100 MbE port' powered by 'PoE' at 'Max. Power Consumption 8W' and names no WiFi radio at all, so unlike the G4 Doorbell — which runs on an ordinary doorbell transformer and joins by WiFi — this one needs Ethernet run to the door. The console and the cable are both prerequisites, not upgrades.
Yes — a UniFi OS Console running the Protect application, and this is a system requirement rather than an optional accessory. Ubiquiti's own physical-security page names what it takes to start: 'A UniFi Console running Protect' plus a camera, with the footnote 'Compatible storage disk is only required to save recordings' — so a console without a disk gives you a live view and keeps nothing. The Cloud Gateway Max (~$279 as configured) is the cheapest console this catalogue has verified; Network Video Recorders and CloudKey+ also qualify. This doorbell counts against the console's device capacity like any other Protect camera.[1][3][16]
Apple Home · Inconclusive
This connection is not confirmed for this model
Connection not confirmed
Ubiquiti UniFi Doorbell Lite?Apple Home
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Same position — no Apple Home, HomeKit or Matter claim anywhere in Ubiquiti's physical-security documentation or on this product's specification sheet.[3][16]
Google Home · Inconclusive
This connection is not confirmed for this model
Connection not confirmed
Ubiquiti UniFi Doorbell Lite?Google Home
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Same position as Alexa — Ubiquiti says nothing about Google on any page we read.[3][16]
Amazon Alexa · Inconclusive
This connection is not confirmed for this model
Connection not confirmed
Ubiquiti UniFi Doorbell Lite?Amazon Alexa
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Not established. Ubiquiti names no voice assistant and no third-party smart-home platform on any first-party surface read for this record or for the console it requires — a token search of its physical-security page found Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, SmartThings and Matter all absent. Qualified silence, not an evidenced absence: a vendor who publishes no compatibility list anywhere has told you nothing, rather than told you no.[3][16]
SmartThings · Inconclusive
This connection is not confirmed for this model
Connection not confirmed
Ubiquiti UniFi Doorbell Lite?SmartThings
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Same position — SmartThings is not named on any Ubiquiti page we read.[3][16]
Home Assistant · Works; two-way audio unconfirmed
How it connects to Home Assistant
Follow the documented setup. Read the equipment details and connection limits below.
Local console
Connect through UniFi Protect
Ubiquiti UniFi Doorbell Lite
Ubiquiti UniFi Doorbell LiteUbiquiti UniFi Doorbell Lite
→Local network
UniFi OS consoleRuns UniFi Protect
→UniFi Protect integration
Home AssistantPlatform app
What you gainReach the camera or doorbell through its local Protect console.
Keep in mindRequires UniFi Protect 7.2.105 or later on a UniFi OS console. Read the function table for video, events and audio limits.
Which features come through?
Check the function table and setup notes for this route. An alternative connection does not inherit every capability of the recorded primary connection. A Thread border router, a Matter controller and a platform home hub are different roles; suitable hardware may provide more than one.
These paths summarize documented setup options. Check the function table for the connection covered by each recorded capability.
Needed for this connection
Ubiquiti hub or bridge
Setup and sources
A UniFi OS Console running Protect, per Ubiquiti's stated requirement. ⚠ On this model the wiring is a second dependency and it is the one people underestimate: the specification sheet gives this doorbell a '10/100 MbE port' powered by 'PoE' at 'Max. Power Consumption 8W' and names no WiFi radio at all, so unlike the G4 Doorbell — which runs on an ordinary doorbell transformer and joins by WiFi — this one needs Ethernet run to the door. The console and the cable are both prerequisites, not upgrades.
Home Assistant's official UniFi Protect integration, which carries its top quality rating, shows this doorbell's live video, rings and detections through your UniFi console, on your own network. It can play audio through the doorbell's speaker but doesn't say you can talk back and forth with a visitor, so two-way audio in Home Assistant is unconfirmed. It needs UniFi Protect 7.2.105 or later running on a UniFi OS console.[4][13][17]
One device can provide more than one role. These are setup requirements, not a shopping list of separate purchases.
What could you do with this?
Put its functions to use.
Research, not hands-on testing
Start with a documented control or event. The selected connection shows what is confirmed for that platform.
↔Device control
Documented device function
Two-way audio
The device supports this control.
Compare its platform availability in the table below.
Same position — no Apple Home, HomeKit or Matter claim anywhere in Ubiquiti's physical-security documentation or on this product's specification sheet.
Not established. Ubiquiti names no voice assistant and no third-party smart-home platform on any first-party surface read for this record or for the console it requires — a token search of its physical-security page found Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, SmartThings and Matter all absent. Qualified silence, not an evidenced absence: a vendor who publishes no compatibility list anywhere has told you nothing, rather than told you no.
Maker’s hub or bridge. A UniFi OS Console running Protect, per Ubiquiti's stated requirement. ⚠ On this model the wiring is a second dependency and it is the one people underestimate: the specification sheet gives this doorbell a '10/100 MbE port' powered by 'PoE' at 'Max. Power Consumption 8W' and names no WiFi radio at all, so unlike the G4 Doorbell — which runs on an ordinary doorbell transformer and joins by WiFi — this one needs Ethernet run to the door. The console and the cable are both prerequisites, not upgrades.
Home Assistant's official UniFi Protect integration, which carries its top quality rating, shows this doorbell's live video, rings and detections through your UniFi console, on your own network. It can play audio through the doorbell's speaker but doesn't say you can talk back and forth with a visitor, so two-way audio in Home Assistant is unconfirmed. It needs UniFi Protect 7.2.105 or later running on a UniFi OS console.
Home AssistantWorks; two-way audio unconfirmed[4][13][17]
Two-way audioDevice control
Control
?Inconclusive
Control
?Inconclusive
Control
?Inconclusive
Control
?Inconclusive
Control
?Not stated
Doorbell pressedReported event
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Not stated
Person detectedReported event
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Not stated
Vehicle detectedReported event
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Not stated
Pet detectedReported event
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Inconclusive
Event
?Not stated
Automation availability for this model is not established.
✓ Documented for this connection. × A stated limit. ◐ A partial function. ? Not established. A listed device function does not establish a complete routine, its other equipment or any plan requirements.
Setup and sources
Apple Home
Same position — no Apple Home, HomeKit or Matter claim anywhere in Ubiquiti's physical-security documentation or on this product's specification sheet.[3][16]
Google Home
Same position as Alexa — Ubiquiti says nothing about Google on any page we read.[3][16]
Alexa
Not established. Ubiquiti names no voice assistant and no third-party smart-home platform on any first-party surface read for this record or for the console it requires — a token search of its physical-security page found Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, SmartThings and Matter all absent. Qualified silence, not an evidenced absence: a vendor who publishes no compatibility list anywhere has told you nothing, rather than told you no.[3][16]
SmartThings
Same position — SmartThings is not named on any Ubiquiti page we read.[3][16]
Home Assistant
Home Assistant's official UniFi Protect integration, which carries its top quality rating, shows this doorbell's live video, rings and detections through your UniFi console, on your own network. It can play audio through the doorbell's speaker but doesn't say you can talk back and forth with a visitor, so two-way audio in Home Assistant is unconfirmed. It needs UniFi Protect 7.2.105 or later running on a UniFi OS console.[4][13][17]
Listed device functions are established from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished, not necessarily absent.
Connection details and setup sources
Ecosystem
Support
The catch
Amazon Alexa
?InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[3][16]
Not established. Ubiquiti names no voice assistant and no third-party smart-home platform on any first-party surface read for this record or for the console it requires — a token search of its physical-security page found Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, SmartThings and Matter all absent. Qualified silence, not an evidenced absence: a vendor who publishes no compatibility list anywhere has told you nothing, rather than told you no.
Google Home
?InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[3][16]
Same position as Alexa — Ubiquiti says nothing about Google on any page we read.
Apple Home
?InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[3][16]
Same position — no Apple Home, HomeKit or Matter claim anywhere in Ubiquiti's physical-security documentation or on this product's specification sheet.
SmartThings
?InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[3][16]
Same position — SmartThings is not named on any Ubiquiti page we read.
Home Assistant
◐Works; two-way audio unconfirmedWorks; two-way audio unconfirmed — see the catch[4][13][17]
Home Assistant's official UniFi Protect integration, which carries its top quality rating, shows this doorbell's live video, rings and detections through your UniFi console, on your own network. It can play audio through the doorbell's speaker but doesn't say you can talk back and forth with a visitor, so two-way audio in Home Assistant is unconfirmed. It needs UniFi Protect 7.2.105 or later running on a UniFi OS console.In Home Assistant you also need: the maker's own hub
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
⭐ No subscription and no licensing, and Ubiquiti states it in the negative rather than leaving it to be inferred: 'Absolutely not. Our goal is to provide you with a feature-rich security solution without any hidden or recurring fees.' The same page explains where the footage lives instead — 'All security footage remains local to your UniFi Console to avoid unnecessary cloud storage for maximum data privacy.' On a shelf whose dominant business model is $5–20 a month for recordings and person alerts, the absence of a bill is the whole argument for buying into this system; the cost is front-loaded into the console and the storage disk rather than spread across a plan.
Maintenance and offline use
Works without the internet: Partly — some of it keeps working and some of it does not. See the detail below.[8][11][19]
Nothing to charge and nothing to replace: this is a wired PoE device drawing at most 8 W over the same cable that carries its data, on a supported range of '37—57V DC'. Two environmental numbers are worth knowing before it goes on a north-facing wall. It is rated 'IPX5' — protected against water jets, with no dust rating declared at all — and its operating range is '-30 to 50° C (-22 to 122° F)', which is a far colder floor than the -10 °C its own G4 Doorbell sibling tolerates. Physically it is the compact one at '137 x 40 x 26.4 mm (5.4 x 1.6 x 1")'.
UniFi publishes no security-update support date for this model. That is a gap in what the manufacturer has published, not evidence either way — some makers declare a support period and some say nothing at all.
ASSESSED AND FOUND ABSENT, not unchecked (2026-08-20). Ubiquiti publishes an active security programme and no support period. What exists: a live advisory stream at ui.com/security-updates, running to Security Advisory Bulletin 066 at the time of reading, covering Cloud Gateways/CloudKeys, Protect and Network. What does not exist anywhere we could reach: any statement of how long a product receives security updates. Ubiquiti's own Vintage and Legacy page defines the two end-states in words — Vintage products "will continue to receive critical bug fixes and security updates", Legacy products "have stopped receiving updates" — but attaches NO duration, NO date, and does not list this product in either state. The practical position for a buyer: this vendor patches visibly and promises nothing in writing, so there is no date to hold them to.
The catch
The $99 buys a doorbell that does nothing on its own. A UniFi console running Protect is required — realistically another $279 and a storage disk on top — and this model, unlike the G4 Doorbell beside it, has no WiFi at all: it is a PoE device with a 10/100 Ethernet port, so somebody has to run a network cable to the front door. Budget the install, not just the box. What is genuinely surprising in the other direction is the sensor: at 5MP this 'Lite' outresolves both pricier Ubiquiti doorbells, which are 2MP. And the reason to accept all of that is the bill you never get — no subscription, no licensing, footage kept on hardware you own.
Who it's for
A household or small site that already runs UniFi — or is about to — and wants the cheapest way to put a doorbell on a system with no monthly fee, where a network cable to the door is either already there or not a problem to pull. Wherever Ethernet is available, it costs half as much as the $199 G4 Doorbell and sees more. It is the wrong pick for anyone replacing a wireless doorbell without rewiring, for anyone who wants Alexa or Apple Home to answer the door, or for a household that does not want to own a console.
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Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
19 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
Backs: Required hub or bridge, Subscription, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
[9] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-06
[10] this record's own lifecycle note as it stood before 2026-09-19 (no new external read): its wording was rewritten so it reads in plain language. No fact, date, source or value changed, and the earlier wording is kept on this record., verified 2026-09-19
Backs: Required hub or bridge, Subscription, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.
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