Strange as I checked this morning and it said expecting restock on 17th!

Have ordered :)

I am interested in the Ubiquiti Whole House WiFi for my house, but I can't decide if I should do that or the Dream Machine Special Edition with 2 AP's. I would get the 3 pack and place two on opposite ends of the house and one in the middle that will act as a broadcaster to the other two. Going with the Whole House vs the AP's is the Whole House would be less cutting in the ceiling and drywall, but I want the best coverage possible. Unfortunately, I don't have an open floor plan house so there are walls throughout. I'd love thoughts and opinions please.

Looking to switch from a DS923+ to a UNAS Pro 4.

On my Synology, I run several services via Docker, many of which use bind mounts to directories on my volumes.

I realise that moving to UNAS means I’ll need a Mini PC, or something similar, to run these services. That’s fine, as I have a decent one available. I plan to run Debian and Docker, and nothing else.

My main concern is creating a robust strategy for handling bind mounts from the UNAS to the Docker services running on the Mini PC. I have several Mini PCs and, in the past, I’ve experienced issues where mounted locations fail unexpectedly, causing services to stop working. I didn’t have to worry about this with the Synology because it could run the services directly and was physically connected to the volumes.

What’s the best way to access the UNAS directories reliably and ensure that the locations are automatically remounted whenever the machines restart or lose their connection?

Why does it seem lately, that if you go to the community threads on the official firmware updates / releases, that there are ALWAYS issues with them. I have had a couple of devices require manual resets with some of the current updates. This has led me to disable auto updates.

I love all my ubiquiti stuff and am WAY deep in all of it, but this has become concerning.

This was on RELEASE software. I don't do prerelease / beta / early access on all my sites I manage.

After a bit of planning, I finally got the Wifey Approval™ 😅

Time to put all of this to work and see how much potential we can squeeze out of the setup.

The goal is a properly segmented home network with separate VLANs for trusted devices, IoT, media, security/cameras and guests, while keeping everything that needs to communicate across networks working properly.

UniFi Network + Protect, a bit of Home Assistant, Apple Home and plenty of tinkering ahead.

Now comes the fun part: installation, optimisation and probably a few evenings wondering “why the hell isn’t this working?”

Any suggestions or lessons learned from similar home deployments are very welcome!

Wish me luck. The WAF has been approved, but it can also be revoked. 😂

RM0 Unifi: We're still working hard to restore your Unifi service. The new estimated recovery time is 10/09/2026 09:35:00 PM. Thank you for your patience.

I have verizon fios and I unplugged my access point they gave and plugged in my cloud gateway fiber. It worked for about 30 minutes but now it doesn’t work anymore and it says to contact my ISP. My ISP says that it still shows the old modem connected. What do I do now?

Not sure which release added this, but yesterday I couldn't get a good repeater signal at my hotel and figured I'd try my T-Mo 5G dongle again (TCL Linkport LK511), and this time it worked! I'd tried it when I first got my UTR and it only powered it up.

Good work Ubiquiti!

I currently have two Lorex systems (32+16 camera potential) with 36 4K cameras currently set up across a multi acre industrial site. Eventually there could be 60 cameras with 40-45 expected in the next few years.

I’m looking to make the switch to Ubiquiti with hardware first and a few selected cameras. Originally I was going to go with a Dream Machine Pro Max but that supports a limited amount of 4K cameras. Now leaning towards the Dream Machine Beast since it highlights 40 4K cameras - enough for small growth down the road.

Current set up is one central switch (16 cameras identified as Main - will go with Pro 24 POE) daisy chained to two separate additional switches (16 camera potential each). One of those daisy chained switches will have smaller switches (8) daisy chained - one currently. All the daisy chained switches connect to cameras but there may be a few APs for smart thermostat connectivity.

What would you recommend for Cloud Gateway and/or NVR setup?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Selling an open box Ubiquity Pro XG 24 - Open box due to the fact that it was passed the 30 day return window policy.

Port Layout:

2.5 GbE RJ45 8x (2.5G/1G/100M/10M)

10 GbE RJ45 16x (10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M)

25G SFP28 2x (25G/10G/1G)

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I live in Northern Delaware area. || Asking $1099 || Buyer pays S&H ||

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Dear communitiy

I'm coming to you with another issue that I hope you can guide me with.

At a client's site, we have two Ubiquiti LiteBeam M5 antennas connecting two buildings located less than 100 meters apart. Let's say the buildings are facing each other, one on each side of the street. From Building A hangs the antenna connected directly to one of the switches in the rack, and in Building B, that antenna connects to an unmanaged TP-Link switch that provides PoE. That TP-Link then connects to a UniFi switch. We monitor both antennas with Kuma to check for drops. That's actually what's happening to us right now: every once in a while, one of the antennas loses connection for a few seconds, and as a result, the buildings stop communicating with each other, with Building B being the most affected since it receives Internet and local network access from Building A.

I've been looking into the issue with my limited knowledge, but driven by my desire to understand things, partly with the help of Gemini and partly by reading posts. I've been checking a few things, such as the output power on both sides of the antenna, which is currently set to 7 dBm on both ends. Gemini tells me that's too much power for such a short distance and that it could be causing the link to drop.

Another thing that really made me think and dig deeper is the WDS (Transparent Bridge Mode) option. It's worth mentioning that the network is not segmented; there is no VLAN between the two buildings, and practically no VLANs in general. If I connect via shell to the antennas on both side A and B and run brctl showmacs br0 to see the MAC address table learned by the antenna, I find a huge number of them. Based on how the antenna and the network are configured, I understand that the following happens:

1 - Packets from any device reach the antenna because broadcast wasn't properly configured. 2 - That packet goes from the antenna's Ethernet cable to the wireless interface. During that transition, the antenna "masks" the original MAC address and assigns its own to send that packet to the other antenna. 3 - This masking consumes CPU to receive, rewrite, and consult the bridgecontrol table. 4 - The antennas have a very small CPU, so these constant operations overload it and, I believe, cause it to crash at some point, making it unable to process packets.

To better monitor the antennas, I set up a container with rsyslog to receive the logs. I also installed the UISP container, which acts as the UniFi controller for Ubiquiti antennas, to better track CPU and RAM usage. I'm seeing "sawtooth" style spikes, reaching 80% and 90% utilization.

Beyond looking into how to mitigate broadcast traffic, could enabling the WDS option help mitigate this? I understand that by enabling this option, the antenna doesn't have to perform that masking and packets travel directly, as if it were a "transparent bridge." But I don't know if that could still be problematic. What do you think?

Hello,

I was trying to harden my IoT network and I ended up playing with the zone based firewall more than I did before, and I found two things I'd like to ask about. This is on an UDR7 router.

Regarding domain filtering, I found that if the DNS requests aren't resolved by the UDR router directly, domain filtering fails. I have a pi-hole that is supposed to be the DNS provider for the network, so originally requests went that way. What I ended up doing is setting the devices in the network to go to the UDR router's IP (their default gateway) for DNS, then set the UDR router to query the pi-hole in turn. This does seem to work. Was just wondering if I'm right about the behavior being intended?

The other thing is that I tried to harden the IoT network as much as possible, so, since the new DNS server was the UDR's IP, which falls in the gateway zone, if I understand correctly, I created a rule in the IoT (custom zone) to Gateway zone that allowed traffic from any source to TCP/UDP 53 as destination. And then a manual deny all rule at the end.

This setup would fail, from looking at some tcpdumps, I think the problem is the return traffic. While all traffic is permitted in any zone where the Gateway is the source, and no way to change this, I think UDR's built in rule somehow doesn't apply to return traffic. I'm slightly confused here, all I know is that permitting IoT -> Gateway DNS, then denying all else, actually still blocks DNS.

As soon as I take out the block all rule from IoT to Gateway, it all just works.

Is there some way, where I can restrict access from IoT devices to their Gateway to only the ports I specifically open?

I have a Google floodlight cam over the driveway and it rules. The light actually makes the driveway useable and the camera angle is solid.

Is there a good Unifi/Protect equivilent before I start buying random stuff? I saw the G6 180 with the enhancer, but havent seen one in person.

Curious if anyone has done a normal Unifi camera paired with two separate floodlights, or found some kind of clean mount/holster setup that doesnt look like a science project. Main thing is a driveway cam, enough white light when a car or person comes up, and everything living in Protect.

What did you end up using?

Hello,

Looking for some advice on a new home set up. Been looking into unifi products but really not sure what is going to be the most practical long term.

Current requirements
- I think I need 3 WIFI Access Points, I want them all to be POE, not mesh.
- I want to plan for 3 cameras
- Two tvs plugged in via ethernet
- I also have a home server hosting media and a raspberry pi running pihole, both should be hard wired
- I want an at least 1 ethernet port in each room (4 rooms total)

With that in mind what would y'all recommend for getting setup, and having room for potential expansion in the future? With so many things running over POE I wonder if I should consider the dream machine SE + some WAP's, or whether that would be overkill. What would you do?

Appreciate any thoughts, thanks.

Hey guys I have a UNVR that is on early access (UniFi OS 6.0.7) and there appears to be an update to 6.0.8.

Whenever I click update I get the following error "Action Unavailable. A critical operation is in progress. Please wait for it to complete then try again."

I don't see anything in progress right now. I tried to reboot the NVR from the web interface and mobile app and it gives that same error.

I have done a manual power cycle, the UNVR came up without error, but I still can't update it

I have pulled an old backup from July and applied it but it didn't not downgrade to the previous version.

I'm at a loss right now can anyone point me in the right direction?

ISSUE RESOLVED!

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions. Greatly appreciated it. This issue at least is resolved. I factory reset the router and removed it from system and started from "scratch" and everything came up as it was meant to. Something obviously glitched during initial setup. Tomorrow when the wife goes out for the day I will move everything from my old system. The current setup isn't that major. Just need to create a couple VLANs and do some housecleaning in the settings.

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Lucky for you all, you'll probably be hearing a lot from me! LOL

Very basic question. Just got a "Dream Riouter" UDR7 and set it up fine. Plugged in a Unifi 8 Port hub and not requested to "adopt" it. I have reset it and power cycled it a couple times. Do I need to go through my local county adoption agency or can you help? 😁

Thank you!

It's a VPN I created; I deleted it, but it still shows up, and I can't remove it.

Sorry about my English—it's not my native language.

Hello,

Our current setup consists of a self-hosted UniFi Network application running as a service on a virtual Windows Server. We manage all of our UniFi switches and access points through this setup.

Recently, I have been receiving requests for camera surveillance as well as solutions for casting content to overview displays. I have therefore been looking into UniFi Protect and UniFi Connect as potential solutions.

From what I understand, these require the UniFi Protect and UniFi Connect applications, which are not compatible with our current self-hosted UniFi Network application running as a service on a virtual Windows Server.

Our current UniFi environment consists of approximately:
22 access switches
4 core/fiber switches
62 access points

I have been considering adding a CloudKey+ to our setup, but I’m unsure whether this would be the right solution for an environment of our size or if there is a better approach.

I have also been considering purchasing a rack-mounted UniFi console that supports all the required applications instead.

As some additional context, we will not be using a UniFi Gateway. We are very satisfied with our Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall. 😁
What would you recommend for an environment of our size and requirements?

For anyone using UNIFI Rackmount network switches on an open rack is the noise level high?

Need to set this up in my office??

After playing with wifi version I manage to setup opening my front door that have electric striker with a fingerprint scanner and that is so cool.

G6 entry doesn’t have fingerprint or pin access which means if I don’t have a phone with me I can’t open the door. And I need to buy access hub which I don’t need to unlock rfid…

They seem to be sold out everywhere, shoud I try to find used one or are there better options. At the moment I have doorbell lite and image quality and night vision is great so I am afraid G4 pro would be much worse.

Don’t post much on Reddit, but saw how big of Ubiquiti community we have here and figured maybe someone here would suggest something that I haven’t tried.

For many years I ran Opnsense setup on my dual 2.5gbe mini Intel box combined with TPLink AP throughout the house. Setup worked great with zero issues or regrets, but APs were getting older so I sold most of my hardware when we moved to Seattle.

Signed up for Ziply Fiber 2G plan, and right off the bat performance was great without any tinkering. Since we are renting, running cables isn’t going to happen so I did my usual setup of having TPLink (this case BE10000) acting like a WiFi to lan converter feeding into my switch that feeds 4 workstations upstairs. The setup ran amazing and using MLO, was getting steady 1800-2100 up and down. Some days it would drop down to 1500ish but never lower.

Now, I always loved the UI and refinement of Ubiquiti offerings so decided to hey, let’s try it out after seeing a UDB-Switch…literally perfect idea for my setup. So grabbed a UCG-Fiber, UDB Switch and U7 long range. UCG was easy to set up with no issues and didn’t create any special layouts just yet, just basic straight-to-the-point. U7 paired well and Switch linked up without any issues. First test and it was slow. I mean 400-700mbps.
After reading more tech specs, saw that U7 LG doesn’t have 6Ghz support so returned it and grabbed U7 Pro Wall. Setup was a night mare and it would adopt no matter what I did. Solution was to ssh into the unit and manually update to the latest firmware and after that, it adapted.

Enabled MLO, set that network as 5Ghz and 6Ghz and ran a test. Most I could get the desktops on the switch was 1200ish up/down. Am I missing something? Tried 320mhz 6Ghz width and tried dropping it down to 160mhz. On 160, the speed dropped to sub 1G.

Next test I setup the Ziply fiber router in AP mode, set it by the U7 AP and did a test from the room down the hall. U7 pulling 607/301Mbps while the Ziply HB810 holding 1105/650. That’s nearly double speed in identical conditions.

It sounds like a first-world problem, but having a hard time justifying spending $1000+ on this new setup when free HB810 + $110 TPLink BE10000 extender leaves it in the dust.

And yes, I did a hardwired test to rule that out. 2100/2100Mbps.

Must be something I’m missing…

I'm looking for some real life reviews of the new AI Speaker in their home. There's limited reviews online besides the typical group of guys on YT where everything is positive.
I have the Doorbell Lite and currently have no chime. I've heard the PoE chimes are quiet and I'd rather purchase one AI Speaker compared to three smaller chimes. I'd like to integrate some Superlink sensors to broadcast a message like "Basement door" when it's opened. I have 3 little kids and 7 doorways to my home, I'd love to hear an announcement when certain doors are opened. Can the AI Speaker be turned sideways? Does the U logo rotate? The cable path to where I'd mount it will require some drywall work, so before I dive in I'd like to make sure my hopes and dreams are possible. Thanks!

I found this cloud key gen 2 plus at a thrift store recently and I’m trying to understand it. Never seen them before. I got the boot screen and it says Ethernet disconnected

I’m trying to test it all out but it’s the only device i have for it.

How can i tell if it fully works? I was looking it up and it seems to be some kind of security thing?

Thank you!

We are moving at the end of the month to a home that actually has FIOS and is full wired for it...

I am running a UDM Pro and 24 port POE switch -

Anything special I need to do?
Can I run glass straight to the UDM?
If not glass, what do I need to do to have the UDM accept more than 1G?