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Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by enjo » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

MrDarcy wrote: post #217

stephen_g wrote: post #200

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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.

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…

TP-Link comes with a healthy dose of worry about the Chinese governments surveillance practices tho.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by Spooky23 » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 3:47 AM UTC

Yeri wrote: post #207

PokestarFan wrote: post #198

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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.

Not with ipv6

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by moontear » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 7:09 AM UTC

verandaguy wrote: post #295

moontear wrote: post #269

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The actual source is this: https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-OS-Server-4-2-23/21d... but only accessible if you opt-in to the Unifi Early Access program. We are talking beta software / first release here, so any criticism needs to be looked at through that lens. Also there is the official announcement now: https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-os-server

My criticism was mainly of the original article for failing to link to a primary source beyond hotlinking some dmgs. I appreciate you linking these, though, as well as the extra context.

And you're absolutely right about the original article not containing many links.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by MrDarcy » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

snapplebobapple wrote: post #296

MrDarcy wrote: post #217

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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…

is there a writeup on the openwrt/proxmox vm for routing you talk about? Examples of the cheap switches?

Not that I know of but I may publish something if it’s of interest.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by hyperionplays » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 3:17 PM UTC

jeremywho wrote: post #76

oceanplexian wrote: post #69

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I stopped buying Ubiquiti when I reset my UDM Pro and took it to another house without internet access, and it refused to "activate" without an Internet Connection or a phone app connection. Seems they are more interested in selling a lifestyle rather than actual production network equipment.

What are you using instead?

New mikrotik gear is also a great option.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by cassianoleal » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 3:43 PM UTC

alt227 wrote: post #77

oceanplexian wrote: post #69

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I stopped buying Ubiquiti when I reset my UDM Pro and took it to another house without internet access, and it refused to "activate" without an Internet Connection or a phone app connection. Seems they are more interested in selling a lifestyle rather than actual production network equipment.

Im not excusing Ubiquiti here, I agree thats pretty annoying. However a UDM pro is a router (as well as other things). The expectation is that it is connected to WAN. Unifi switches and access points etc do not have the same online requirement.

> a UDM pro is a router (as well as other things). The expectation is that it is connected to WAN.

That's a bad expectation.

When I moved houses, I was without home broadband for almost 2 months. I bought a Cloud Fibre Gateway as everybody recommended Unifi. I intended to set my local network up, have Home Assistant running, as well as my NAS and other self-hosted apps.

Couldn't do any of that until I figured out a way to tether my phone to my OpenWRT router that the Unifi was supposed to replace, and wire them together over ethernet.

Not the final straw that made be give up on it but a truly atrocious first experience.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by accrual » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

nirav72 wrote: post #70

accrual wrote: post #39

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What do you like to use the UniFi controller container for? I've tried hosting the same container before but it never seemed to properly "marry" to my UniFi AP, or it would forget the AP the next day, etc. For now I just use the iOS app which is sufficient to update the AP firmware occasionally, but I wish I could get all the insights of the controller.

I had that problem before. You can fix that by SSH'ing into your AP and setting the inform IP to point to your controller. Just make sure the IP address of the host that's running the controller container is static. https://www.unihosted.com/blog/how-to-set-inform-in-unifi-a-...

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by alt227 » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 6:25 PM UTC

MrDarcy wrote: post #287

alt227 wrote: post #281

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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.

As the other poster said, you actually need to read the thread and then a Ubiquiti employee links to a post where it says it was fixed. Considering you were so affected and frustrated by this issue, Im surprised you didnt actually read the thread you posted to realise this issue was fixed 2 years ago.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by mancerayder » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 7:52 PM UTC

The common sentiment is that Mikrotik is the gold standard for reliability and, not talking about the terrible UI, you're considered an Adult in networking if you choose to manually configure individual interfaces to do basic things, and it 'just works'

Except when it doesn't, and you have to stop your day job to troubleshoot your home network because an interface literally vanishes overnight, when you hadn't touched the router in months.

Then there's the wifi radio settings and the terrible CAPman, where I had to Google radio frequency settings and channel configuration (why?). In any case what's this power good for? what's a use case that you want to give up ease of use and central management for configuration power?

I'm moving to all Ubiquiti stuff, and so far I love the management tooling that already alerts me and shows me latency stats and packet drops on my network in a status page, including a log. I love that I can use the app to connect my phone to an IPSEC tunnel at home, that I can quickly connect sites.

Mikrotik's winbox and web configuration UI seem like they were written by lone developers in basements who never interacted with humans.

Re: Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

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Post by baby_souffle » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

aksss wrote: post #233

baby_souffle wrote: post #143

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> Lotta haters out there but this is just advanced as I want to get in my home lab IN all fairness, that hate is reasonable. Ubiquity has _some_ things done super well. As long as your needs are addressed by the config/options/UX/API that they expose, you'll have a pretty good experience. As soon as you need to do something that isn't easy, you're going to be fighting your core network infra the entire time and that'…

The thing about the UniFi platform is it iteratively improves. Years ago you couldn’t manage NAT rules or DNS from the GUI, though there were workarounds to modify iptables at the command line and preserve customization across upgrades. Now days, static routes, SNAT/DNAT, and DNS are all in the management interface. So.. things improve, and every time I’m back using EdgeRouters, Extreme, or Juniper elements I miss th…

> The thing about the UniFi platform is it iteratively improves.

That's a very charitable and positive spin on "was expensive the day you bought it and got all the functionality you expected years later".

I'm fine with things getting better over time. I am a lot less understanding when you ship a device in 2024 and it still has trash IPv6 support but don't worry because "we'll fix it via an update coming soon!"

That is something that should have been there from day 1.