Ubiquiti UniFi Protect G4 Dome Camera UVC-G4-DOME Teardown

ID: 190504

Description:

Steps:

  1. Remove the two rubber adhesive strips to uncover the four screw holes
  2. Remove the four small screws and lift the cover.
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  3. The main board is now visible.
  4. Remove the four screws
  5. Unplug the two highlighed connectors
  6. First connector, on the left in the picture, for the leds, microphone, speaker
  7. Second connector, on the right in the picture, for the ethernet port
  8. You can now gently lift the main board, passing the two cables that you unplugged through their respective holes on the board. There will be a bit of resistance as there is a chip with thermal paste that adheres to the underlying metal cover
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  9. Remove the cable connected to the bottom of the main board
  10. This cable is connected to the camera
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  11. You can now remove the main board
  12. I cleaned the chip from the thermal paste to reveal that it is an Ambarella S5L IP Camera SoC (full code: Ambarella S5LM-A0-RH A2114 SD8P7-2N3 1N1 S5L55M)
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  13. Remove the two screws on the sides of the rotating disc
  14. You can now remove the rotating disc that includes the ethernet connector (here pictured from below)
  15. You have now access to the main body with the camera, the microphone, the speakers and the leds
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  16. Insert wisdom here.
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