A sharp, weatherproof driveway camera that does its job well, as long as you've already bought into UniFi Protect.
The G4 Bullet is the camera Ubiquiti built for the spot every house has: the driveway, the side gate, the corner where a floodlight camera looks awkward and a doorbell camera can't reach. Compact, weatherproof, one PoE cable, 1440p, and it plugs straight into a UniFi Protect console like the Dream Router or a Cloud Key. Mine has been above my garage door for about six months.
Night footage is why it stays there. The IR illuminator reaches about 25 feet with enough detail to read a plate on a car parked in the driveway, faces don't wash out into white smears the way my previous cheap cameras managed, and when headlights sweep the frame the sensor recovers instead of blooming into a wall of glare. My favorite clip so far is a possum commuting across the driveway at 2:40 a.m. on a schedule so consistent I could set a watch by him. Detection files him under 'animal' every time, correctly, and separates people from vehicles close to 90 percent of the time on my Dream Router. The false alerts I get are shadows at dusk, not blowing leaves at 3 a.m.
“The 2:40 a.m. possum gets filed under 'animal' every single night, and that's the product working.”
Install honesty: the kit is great, the drilling template is great, and the job still took me most of an afternoon, because running cable through a finished garage wall is the actual project and no camera review tells you that. There's a filler-plugged hole an inch left of my cable where I missed the stud bay. Learn from me. The ball-and-socket mount has held its angle through a full summer, which is more than the slowly drooping cameras it replaced ever did.
The real limitation isn't the camera, it's what it requires. This thing does nothing on its own. No app, no cloud option, no standalone recording, just a PoE camera that needs a Protect console doing the thinking. Without UniFi already in the house, it's a well-built paperweight.
Against its siblings: the G4 Pro has optical zoom and more resolution for a lot more money, and the G4 Instant offers battery-powered convenience I've stopped believing in entirely. I've owned two battery cameras from other brands. Both spent their lives at 40 percent, produced choppy clips on bad Wi-Fi days, and missed the one event I bought them for. Wires or nothing is where I've landed, and I understand this makes me tedious at barbecues.
IP66 weatherproofing has survived a year of rain and one legitimately nasty hailstorm without fogging the housing. Firmware updates kept improving detection long after purchase instead of freezing at launch quality.
Anyone with a Protect console already running should just put this in the cart. It's the least dramatic hardware I own, and I mean that as high praise.