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Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by alt227 »

MrDarcy wrote: post #217
stephen_g wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've moved on from Ubiquiti access points as well. Their U6 simply does not handle VLANs properly, they never acknowledged the issue let alone fixed it. See https://community.ui.com/questions/U6-IW-how-to-trunk-all-5-... Their security issues in the past. Their failure to make the EdgeRouter handle DHCP and DNS properly. Etc... I've since moved to cheap switches that support all port vlan trunks and LACP bonding, the…

The thread you reference ends with the post saying "it is fixed in the 7.4.140 controller release", so im not sure how you can say it wasnt acknowledged or fixed.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by ectospheno »

nottorp wrote: post #264
varenc wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can setup and initialize an AP with a controller, and that controller doesn't require a cloud account or internet access.

Sorry to be paranoid, but is this current info from your personal experience? Because that's how it was years ago, and then they tried to make the cloud account compulsory, and the last time I asked around it was sort of not compulsory but you still needed to create one for the initial setup and only then put your AP somehow in standalone mode.

> is this current info from your personal experience?

I am not GP but I can provide my perspective. I currently use 5 of their switches and 2 of their APs in my house. You do not need a UI account to use the network server locally to manage the devices. I run my server on a debian 12 box.

I locally return nxdomain for several domains they try to lookup. I setup a firewall rule to log any packets from their macs trying to send anything outbound. Apart from my test packets they haven't done so. If you don't nxdomain the domains they lookup then you will see that traffic.

I have not tried the new Unifi OS Server this post is about.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by nottorp »

ectospheno wrote: post #282
nottorp wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to be paranoid, but is this current info from your personal experience? Because that's how it was years ago, and then they tried to make the cloud account compulsory, and the last time I asked around it was sort of not compulsory but you still needed to create one for the initial setup and only then put your AP somehow in standalone mode.

> is this current info from your personal experience? I am not GP but I can provide my perspective. I currently use 5 of their switches and 2 of their APs in my house. You do not need a UI account to use the network server locally to manage the devices. I run my server on a debian 12 box. I locally return nxdomain for several domains they try to lookup. I setup a firewall rule to log any packets from their macs tryin…

So they did see the light indeed, thanks.

They may get some money from me then and I'll finally have wifi 6(E?).

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by olex »

psyclobe wrote: post #131

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've been researching options for a new ground-up home network setup in a new house, and so far UniFi stuff is on top of my list. FTTH company will install their stuff up to an NT in the basement, and from there it'd be my setup - a UCG Ultra gateway, couple of PoE switches across the main house and outbuilding, and 2-3 Wifi 7 APs sprinkled around.

From all I've been looking at, looks like it's the most straightforward setup. Fully centrally managed via the gateway, leaves me plenty of options for PoE-powered security cameras and other expansions in the future, can be upgraded on a component basis when desired, and integrates nicely in HomeAssistant. And with all that, not even really more expensive than what seems like much more fiddly alternatives like the TPLink Omada system and others.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by zamalek »

MrDarcy wrote: post #217
stephen_g wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've moved on from Ubiquiti access points as well. Their U6 simply does not handle VLANs properly, they never acknowledged the issue let alone fixed it. See https://community.ui.com/questions/U6-IW-how-to-trunk-all-5-... Their security issues in the past. Their failure to make the EdgeRouter handle DHCP and DNS properly. Etc... I've since moved to cheap switches that support all port vlan trunks and LACP bonding, the…

> Their security issues in the past.

That's why I moved off as well. Maybe some day SDN (at least so far as the ubiquity experience goes) will become an OpenWRT priority.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by defraudbah »

ethan_smith wrote: post #247
defraudbah wrote: post #242

Any hardware recommendation to run unifi on? Curious what people recommend for that kind of staff

A small NUC or similar SFF PC with 4GB+ RAM and an SSD works perfectly - I run mine on a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB) with minimal resource usage.

thank you kind stranger!

Raspberry is godsent

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by MrDarcy »

alt227 wrote: post #281
MrDarcy wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've moved on from Ubiquiti access points as well. Their U6 simply does not handle VLANs properly, they never acknowledged the issue let alone fixed it. See https://community.ui.com/questions/U6-IW-how-to-trunk-all-5-... Their security issues in the past. Their failure to make the EdgeRouter handle DHCP and DNS properly. Etc... I've since moved to cheap switches that support all port vlan trunks and LACP bonding, the…

The thread you reference ends with the post saying " it is fixed in the 7.4.140 controller release ", so im not sure how you can say it wasnt acknowledged or fixed.

Are you a ubiquiti employee who can see internal posts perhaps? There’s no such post on the public discussion. The only two instances of “fixed” on the page are people expressing hope it will someday be fixed.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by zamalek »

chrisandchris wrote: post #236
stephen_g wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The GL.iNet Flint 2 came highly recommended (near cult following) from my own pretty extensive research for offboarding ubiquity. It comes with a OpenWRT fork pre-installed, but flashing mainline OpenWRT is officially supported. I've been happy so far.

The Flint 3 just launched, and the headline feature is WiFi 7: that should be less of an issue if you're going with separate APs.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by dgemm »

mrweasel wrote: post #272
chrisandchris wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a bit of a soft spot for Mikrotik, but I can't help feel like their hardware only exists to sell training. For our house I tried a Mikrotik, a TP Link and a Ubiquiti AP. The only one that really works in our case is the Ubiquiti. Also for a home that's mostly Apple hardware, you kinda need a manage wifi solution, because Apples WIFI stack have issues switching between APs and needs a controller to kick you off…

RouterOS 7 with the wifiwave2 package supposedly improves on this by (finally) supporting 802.11r/k/v for roaming between APs.

I don't have any mikrotik hardware new enough to support it so I haven't tried it myself yet and documentation is (as usual) pretty lacking, but like you I want to believe.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by zamalek »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #106

I really wish PC with some good m.2 wifi cards in it were more of an option for wireless. PC based routers are awesome, there's great software. It's just the wifi situation keeping us tethered to very special boxes. Even openwrt has severe limits. It's up to you to flap on all manners of optimizations and tweaks to what is basically a hostapd.cond file. Hostapd.conf is the gatekeeper of one of the most important conn…

Get some access points. Something like the TP-Link EAP610[1] (I have not used one of these, yet).

[1]: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=11...

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