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Wait the UXG doesn't do DHCP/DNS? The UCGs all do those which is a weird design choice.
UXG definitely does DHCP and DNS.
There's no central management of these records that I'm aware of though.
Absolutely love my Unifi setup, recently upgraded my USG to the UXG as the old was EOL and not performant enough for gigabit routing with SPI.
I have nothing but good things to say about ubiquiti. I run their cameras door bell and network switches at my house and have had nearly 100% uptime for years. Their ui constantly improves and it’s very well integrated into home assistant. Lotta haters out there but this is just advanced as I want to get in my home lab; and the racks are just so cool even with their gimmicky front touch panel, it’s just so sexy when…
I still use their access points because it's hard to get anything else as good for the same kind of price, but they burned me killing the development on EdgeRouter. So I've gone elsewhere for cameras, switching and routing. This release is a nice point in their favour though but I can't see myself going back all in on Ubiquiti.
The router works still amazingly fine, only their software has some bugs.
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I still use their access points because it's hard to get anything else as good for the same kind of price, but they burned me killing the development on EdgeRouter. So I've gone elsewhere for cameras, switching and routing. This release is a nice point in their favour though but I can't see myself going back all in on Ubiquiti.
What do you use the for routing? I tried a Mikrotik router recently but conoared to the Ubi devices, configuration feels so clunky and complicated.
I have an ansible playbook that creates the image and I run it on a cheap fanless x86 box....
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 childhood dream was to build crazy buildings, before that it was a space explorer. Not sure a home network rack ever made the list!
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When did it become impossible to run a VM next to other services on an existing machine? As they said, Home Assistant OS works great with that setup and it's rock solid in my experience.
Running a full resource hungry VM when a container is enough is downright silly. And the HassOS you mention had to go through a lot of work from HASS team to allow for full container runtime so it gets the functionality UniFi's approach has out of the box.
The only way to approach certain stability is by removing variables and making the environment as predictable as you possibly can. Containers partially address this issue by shipping a predictable user-space environment, but that still leaves the kernel.
Other examples would include OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, Mikrotik CHR, VyOS which are all distributed as VM appliances (or host system installs) even though technically, I'm sure all of them could be distributed as containers (and I think VyOS can be used this way, but I don't believe it's meant for production usage).
And personally I want a much thicker security boundary that VMs provide when it comes to critical services like network controllers. Of course that would require a slightly different setup to begin with, i.e. having UniFi in one VM, and having random containers in another VM which is how I prefer to run things at home (in general, I don't use UniFi products).
Any hardware recommendation to run unifi on? Curious what people recommend for that kind of staff
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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 — Un…
The thing that made me move off of it was issues connecting to devices on mesh'd APs if the ARP entry for that device timed out on the main AP. Literally couldn't connect to my mobile phone, and after a lot of troubleshooting (which Unifi does pretty much nothing to help you with) I found that when the phone had roamed to the mesh'd AP, ARPs for it wouldn't get answered. If I forced it back to a wired AP or manually…
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Ah yes. The “elites”. The invisible yet omnipresent, subtle yet ubiquitous, global cabal that no matter how fragmented and divided society gets, always speaks with one voice[0] and acts in seamless unison. [0] It’s an endless source of fascination to me that it always seems to be non-elites that have the inside scoop on what the elites are thinking and deciding. I’d love to know where they get that insight if not fro…
This is absurd. When people refer to "the elites" as I did, they often mean a large group of people . They do NOT speak with one voice[0], nor do they act in seamless unison. It is a bit noteworthy then that governments worldwide seem intent on destroying the privacy of communications on the internet. [0] People who are used to getting fucked by people higher up in the economic food chain are pretty used to seeing, w…
Perhaps next time it would be more useful to point out exactly who you’re referring to in a given discussion rather than lazily refer to “the elites”.
I’ll also add that in my view, most of what seems like the concerted actions of a global conspiracy is merely the result of very simple human heuristics. Mostly functions of greed (for money, power, or both). Just like the amazing structure in fractals arises from very simple math, so too the workings of our politics and economies through simple human heuristics played out at scale.
I have nothing but good things to say about ubiquiti. I run their cameras door bell and network switches at my house and have had nearly 100% uptime for years. Their ui constantly improves and it’s very well integrated into home assistant. Lotta haters out there but this is just advanced as I want to get in my home lab; and the racks are just so cool even with their gimmicky front touch panel, it’s just so sexy when…
I still use their access points because it's hard to get anything else as good for the same kind of price, but they burned me killing the development on EdgeRouter. So I've gone elsewhere for cameras, switching and routing. This release is a nice point in their favour though but I can't see myself going back all in on Ubiquiti.