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Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by Ultimatt »

thebruce87m wrote: post #27
carimura wrote: post #2

After many (many!) years I finally got around to my childhood dreams of building a home network rack, centered around the Unifi stack. I've got the new 10 gig switch, the dream machine SE, a bunch of cameras, and I've been very impressed with their stuff. The experience "just works" and feels like they take inspiration from Apple. The whole camera setup can be "closed" by shutting off outside access, this self-hostin…

If only the system would cope with power outages I would agree. My viewports refuse to reconnect to the cameras and need multiple forgets/adoptions to come back to life. The (wired) cameras themselves take hours before they show up again, except for the (WiFi) doorbell. During this period I can see the all online via the managed ubiquiti switches.

Surely the expected solution for that is a UPS on the POE switch?

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by wnevets »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #18

There was a lot of drama around Ubiquity a few years back. Happy to see the company is still alive and the indicator that they're coming back around to self hosting. All the hardware I bought a decade ago is still running fine (without any of the cloud software) and it looks like their newer stuff would be worth the upgrade (10gb everywhere, easily, at last).

> There was a lot of drama around Ubiquity a few years back

I've noticed a lot less Ubiquiti hate comments on HN since that one employee got arrested.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by beembeem »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #34
Aurornis wrote: post #25

You could always self-host UniFi Network. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012282453-Self-Host... This launches with UniFi Network and UniFi InnerSpace, which is a deployment visualization tool. I assume they'll add more of the applications to UniFi OS in the future

It turned out to be surprisingly annoying to do this on Debian due to the MongoDB requirement. I forget the exact difficulties but I ended up having to punt and run the container from linuxserver.io.

What hardware were you using to host it?

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by horsawlarway »

myelin wrote: post #17
bobbob1921 wrote: post #13

I may be misunderstanding this, but as I recall originally the only way to run unifi was to have self hosted it through an app on a Windows machine on your network, then it went to the cloud, then cloud only, and now it seems to be coming back to self hosted? Good if so. (UniFi is their app/system to configure your ubiquiti network devices and to gather stats from them, it really did change the networking industry fo…

The self-hosted app never went away; I've been running it for the last 8 years or so, first on a MacBook Pro, then a Raspberry Pi, and now a repurposed HP T620 thin client. They promote their cloud controller pretty strongly, followed by the Cloud Key, which is their own preinstalled self hosting setup, but the self-hosted UniFi Network server has stuck around. (It changed names a couple of times; it was the "UniFi C…

And my experience with the cloud key was freaking awful.

Terrible little underpowered device that frequently wouldn't come back up after losing power.

I switched to Aruba because of the cloud key and haven't looked back.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by grosswait »

bobbob1921 wrote: post #13

I may be misunderstanding this, but as I recall originally the only way to run unifi was to have self hosted it through an app on a Windows machine on your network, then it went to the cloud, then cloud only, and now it seems to be coming back to self hosted? Good if so. (UniFi is their app/system to configure your ubiquiti network devices and to gather stats from them, it really did change the networking industry fo…

It has always been self hosted as an option. I can’t speak to any Windows versions, but I’ve always run on Debian.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by amluto »

carimura wrote: post #2

After many (many!) years I finally got around to my childhood dreams of building a home network rack, centered around the Unifi stack. I've got the new 10 gig switch, the dream machine SE, a bunch of cameras, and I've been very impressed with their stuff. The experience "just works" and feels like they take inspiration from Apple. The whole camera setup can be "closed" by shutting off outside access, this self-hostin…

My general impression is that it “Just Works” if you don’t do anything remotely interesting with it.

Want to create a VLAN with no Internet connectivity? Better test that it actually has no Internet connectivity because the setting doesn’t actually work.

Want to use the firewall? Better test all the rules — it’s amazingly buggy.

Want to change a WiFi setting without WiFi going down for a minute or two? Good luck — UniFi doesn’t seem to care about making it work.

Want to find information (MAC, switch port, DHCP reservation, etc) about a device that uses the same MAC address on multiple VLANs? Good luck — it looks like UniFi utterly flubbed either their database schema or whatever interface their front end uses to talk to their backend about it, and it’s very, very broken.

Want to find basically any setting based on online docs? Too bad — they keep moving the settings and not updating the docs.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by izacus »

myelin wrote: post #17
bobbob1921 wrote: post #13

I may be misunderstanding this, but as I recall originally the only way to run unifi was to have self hosted it through an app on a Windows machine on your network, then it went to the cloud, then cloud only, and now it seems to be coming back to self hosted? Good if so. (UniFi is their app/system to configure your ubiquiti network devices and to gather stats from them, it really did change the networking industry fo…

The self-hosted app never went away; I've been running it for the last 8 years or so, first on a MacBook Pro, then a Raspberry Pi, and now a repurposed HP T620 thin client. They promote their cloud controller pretty strongly, followed by the Cloud Key, which is their own preinstalled self hosting setup, but the self-hosted UniFi Network server has stuck around. (It changed names a couple of times; it was the "UniFi C…

Lately they luckly built the console into their router products - UniFi Express, UniFi Cloud Gateways and Dream Machines all have the console builtin and act as controllers.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by izacus »

covercash wrote: post #20
tiffanyh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What issues did you encounter when using Unifi? From what I’ve seen, Unifi seems like the closest to an "Apple-like" experience - especially given how much more robust their capabilities are compared to most other providers.

The idea that Ubiquiti pushes out buggy software as production-ready and that we're all their beta testers is a pretty common meme on their subreddit.

I haven't found that to be the case on Stable channel.

(I do notice people on forums love to use Early Access update channel where... YMMV).

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