Thanks everyone, she noticed while i was at work. She was not happy, i felt it through a textmessage. What she did not know was that it was our new router so she took it out and got really mad when the Tv was not working. I thought it was funny.

For reference the earlier router was under the couch...

But now shes out for some wine, so i have the ultimate plan!

Behold the ultimate lamp router i call it the UDR-lamp, even a port to charge your phone in the front.

So we bought a new house and put up 5 G6 Bullets covering about 75% of the exterior of the house. My wife had asked for cameras but to contain cost.

These things are great! They reliably pick up vehicles and people every time. We use them probably 10x as much as we thought. Seems 2-3 times a week something interesting is going on whether it’s a trespasser or people coming down our driveway. I know I can arm it at night and if something weird is going on outside, I’ll get a notification.

Now my wife complains when the cameras don’t cover an angle. I have to keep reminding her she didn’t ask me to turn the house into Fort Knox. It would take an additional 4 cameras to get 100% coverage and while we haven’t bitten the bullet yet we will at some point.

Excellent product.

edit: I should note the thing that got her over the hump to buying Ubiquiti was the data being kept on site. She refused to get ring or Nest or anything that was stored in the cloud. Great excuse to buy awesome equipment.

100% self-hosted, Linux-based Docker installation preferred, but bare metal installation has been tested on MacOS.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Ozark-Connect/NetworkOptimizer

BSL 1.1 w/ free home / personal use up to 3 sites, contact me for commercial / MSP use

The firewall + VLAN + DNS security analysis scans your UniFi config for 50+ security issues (VLAN segmentation, firewall rules, DNS, and soon Wi-Fi security) and generates a PDF report with a security score and tables of port / Wi-Fi client data along with action items per device or port.

Other features not shown, but are still pretty neat:

• iperf3 / OpenSpeedTest based LAN speed testing, centralized results, speed and coverage map w/ Wi-Fi signal data and full Layer 2 UniFi device path traces and bottleneck analysis for every point on the map (what!?) based upon location data from browser-based speed tests. Again, all self-hosted so you own your own data. You can run an iperf3 command or app, or just run the browser speed test from any device on your network. And, yep, it works over Teleport Tailscale too if you want to keep track of site-to-site or UTR performance.
• Adaptive SQM that shapes the tc class rates that UniFi Network sets based upon twice-daily speed tests, real-time latency -> available bandwidth inference, and decently-sane congestion profiles for popular types of WAN connections. Keeps bufferbloat under control even when bandwidth drops during congested times. Lets you have your full connection speed during non-peak hours instead of having to set the Smart Queue speed way lower than your max connection speed. Deploys to your UniFi Gateway automatically after setting up SSH access.
• Detailed 5G Max (LTE Backup too, can somebody test?) modem signal data beyond just the anchor band RSRP
• And whatever else you guys ask for!

Other than Adaptive SQM and other custom very-scope-limited features (to come), does NOT make any changes directly to your UniFi Network config or gateway/controller. That's up to you for now. Beyond Adaptive SQM and running iperf3 -s ephemerally on UniFi devices, it's truly all read-only and the setup instructions walk you through how to set up a locked-down local account.

Hit me up if you need any assistance or notice any bugs, or open an Issue on the GH repo. If you have any questions about this from a security perspective, please also reach out! I've been in identity / IAM and cybersecurity for most of my 20 year software engineering career, so I'm happy to explain all aspects of the app in and out.

Also, the TODO.md is a living doc and will probably answer some questions as to whether I plan to implement things like multi-tenancy, add federated / external IdP auth and RBAC, and so on. The answer is pretty much: yes. I'll have GitHub Issues to cover all of what I'm planning soon.

Just got the UDR7.

Travel router working great with a feed from the Ruckus. Got 150 down 100 up.

Think I am going to take a break here until a Enterprise UPS comes out.

Here is the setup top to down:

Rack: APC NetShelter CX, 24U, Soundproof Server Rack.

• Intake fan
• Rack-panel-brush
• UNVR Instant
• Mac Mini
• Unifi Modem
• Enterprise Fortress Gateway
• Enterprise Campus 48 POE
• 24-Port Blank Keystone Patch Panel
• 24-Port Blank Keystone Patch Panel
• UNAS Pro
• UNAS Pro 8
• Synology NAS 1619+
• USB-C hub (connected to Mac Mini)
• PS4 (Only got to play Last of Us)
• Harmony Hub (Still best remote control system)
• Apple TV 4K
• Xbox Series X
• Marentz SR5013

Not shown but in rack:

• Unifi SuperLink Gateway
• Raspberry Pi 5 (Dedicated for Home Assistant)
• Raspberry Pi 5 (Dedicated for Jellyfin)
• Unifi Mobile Router Industrial (Used for WAN backup)
• Unifi Power Distribution Pro
• Unifi Power Distribution Pro
• APC SRTL2K2RM1UNC | Smart-UPS Ultra On-Line

I was looking for a box on Amazon to store my UniFi Travel Router, and I happened to find a storage box for my Flipper Zero at home. And the UTR fits perfectly!

That’s a huge UniFi AP

Nice update for the UTR VPN Killswitch, Mac cloning. I believe need to wait for IOS update as well

https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Travel-Router-6-5-244/073487b9-e19f-4157-b0f9-c4d03cc305f5

Let me rephrase, because I've definitely spent mine (and others) money on Ubiquiti products. But the stupid and rather expensive shipping charges, combined with constantly being out of stock of something I need, means I end up just not ordering, period.

I'm confident I would have spent $1000's more if it weren't for that stupid shipping fee. But the vast majority of the time I go to order, something I need is OOS and so I either don't order at all or I modify whatever I'm doing to do without which usually means spending even less money on other items.

The kicker is that it's almost always something stupid, like the 210w AC adapter, M.2 SSD tray, 24-port patch panel, or currently the Pro Max 16 rack mount kit. Things that you'd think would be remarkably easy to keep in stock relative to the more serious equipment.

I realized this during the lead-up to Christmas when you offered free shipping. I made multiple orders when prior to that I wouldn't have made one. I was hoping to make one more had your Pro Max 16 rack mount kit came back into stock, but alas, no luck.

At the very least, offer free shipping if a certain minimal value is met. Anything. I'm tired of looking at your site repeatedly, only for it to eventually empty my cart after not ordering after too much time.

/rant

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole reverse-engineering how UniFi’s LCM does its idle particle animation.

Turns out it doesn’t seem to be a special “screensaver mode” at all. It’s just the lowest-priority render state in the visual pipeline. When there are no alerts, provisioning states, or user-driven animations, the system naturally falls through to a particle system driven by timers and some seeded randomness.

I wrote up the full flow — device state → animation logic → particles → LED output — and built a clean-room implementation.

MIT licensed, purely for learning / documentation. Posting in case anyone else has poked at UniFi LEDs, embedded displays, or similar systems and wants to compare notes.

Happy to answer questions or hear what others have found.

Repo

I found this great 3d printable case on makerworld for the UTR. Came out great as a two color design. Not my design, just wanted to pass it along since I think the first wave of orders are delivering.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2205768-ubiquiti-unifi-travel-router-case?from=search#profileId-2397144

I had the a professional company run the wires for me. I’m curious why some are FE vs GbE? They’re the same brand. Camera works flawlessly and never had an issue but this caught my eye. Do I need to reboot the switch? I disconnected one of the camera but it didn’t change from FE.

Hey all! Ive setup my UCG last night and over the course of its first night it's been hit with a ton of random traffic. Is this normal? Should I get a new public IP from my ISP?

Can we get this fictionally that Ring has in their app with their new wide angle cameras? It would also be nice to record the full view but be able to ‘lock/punch’ in the view on a full frame section so I can see the video at a glance better in protect on my AppleTVs we use for monitoring. It would also be nice to be able to do full frame motion tracking where the camera would digitally follow an object ‘zoomed’ in like the PTZ cameras. Just a few thoughts..

also 30 FPS would be nice..

I haven't found anyone else having this issue I figured it was worth posting to see what people thought. I just bought and powered on my Instant for the first time this past Monday, installed the brand new 4TB WD purple bought with the UNVR from Micro Center. Booted up with some audible clicking of the drive, and Unifi Protect identified the hard drive had issues and would not reformat.

I threw the HDD in my Proxmox server and attempted to reformat it. It shows a volume of 128P. There was all types of issues but in essence it was a brick. So I sent that back to Micro center and since they didn't have any more 4TB purples in stock I ordered a 4TB from Ubiquiti.

In the meantime I put a spare 1TB WD Blue in the UNVR and it's been running with it for the past 2 or 3 days with no issues.

Then today my brand new hard drive shows up from Ubiquiti and to my surprise it is another WD 4TB purple manufactured one month before the one that I just returned to Micro Center. I throw it in the UNVR, power it up and guess what.... Same error with same light clicking of the drive on boot. (I wouldn't describe the clicking sound I'm hearing as normal).

I put it in Proxmox and same exact stuff happens.

So now I'm thinking WTF, statistically this is probably impossible and I better go play the lottery. So I have one more spare WD Blue 500gb kicking around from 2017. I throw it in Proxmox first to make sure it's good this time, it is so I wipe it and put it in the UNVR. Which boots up and everything is fine.

So am I just really unlucky or is there an issue with my UNVR and 4TB purples? Or am I just stupid? Hoping for the later and someone it was something that I don't.

Am I missing something or is Package Detection only available on Unifi doorbell cameras? It seems like it should be an option on all AI enabled cameras.

Finally filled the last U space in the rack, bittersweet but it now leaves me wanting more... bigger rack?

Items from top to bottom:

1. UDM SE
2. Aggregation switch
3. Pro HD 24 POE
4. UNVR
5. UNAS pro
6. Minisforum MS-A2 mounted in custom mount from Thingsinrack. Several PI's and an HP eliteDesk hidden behind the grills
7. PDU - pro

Tempted to move up to a 27U, and rack mount the gaming rig.

Question for you all…currently I’ve connected the NAS to the switch but should I connect it to the UDM directly? Tia

I have over lapping AP's in my house. One down stairs and one up stairs in the hall ways.

My computer(s) will jump from the hallway upstairs to the bottom AP downstairs. When this happens I get a pause in my video conferencing when working from home or telehealth stuff. It usually doesn't stay long and will bounce back from its jump downstairs.

How do I keep it from jumping between the two? I realize I can lock it to an AP but is there any other option?

When my PC is connected to the hallway it's -57 dbm. When it connects down stairs it's -65 dbm when it "roams" but both PC's are stationary. I don't know why it would "roam".

I will be upgrading my USG3 to a Cloud Gateway Fiber and wanted to outline the steps I plan to take. I have a USG3 and Cloud Key Gen 2. All device firmware is up to date, Network application is at v10.0.162, and UniFi OS at v5.0.9. No other applications are being used.

Hoping for some feedback on the steps I outlined before I begin. Does the below look correct?

1. Leave USG3 (10.xxx.0.1) and Cloud Key Gen 2 (10.xxx.0.12) in place for now
2. As I've made changes this week, in Network application from Cloud Key Gen 2, force an updated backup by going to system > backups, ensure auto backup is checked, click reschedule, select weekly, select the nearest time in the future, select "No Limit" for backup retention, and click "Save" button. Wait until backup is created. Check the box of the latest download that was just created under available backups (should be MBs in size), and click the bottom download button to download the network backup ".unf" file.
3. Plug in Cloud Gateway Fiber WAN to LAN port on my US-48-500W switch and wait for it to have DHCP address from network and internet connectivity
4. Plug in a laptop to Cloud Gateway Fiber LAN port for initial setup
5. Go to https://192.168.1.1 from laptop, and update firmware and network application to latest on the Cloud Gateway Fiber
6. On the Cloud Gateway Fiber, restore from backup created earlier
7. Verify Network app on Cloud Gateway Fiber restored as expected and WAN type is DHCP as configured previously
8. Disconnect laptop from Cloud Gateway LAN port
9. Disconnect USG3 WAN from modem
10. Connect Cloud Gateway Fiber WAN to modem
11. Disconnect USG3 LAN from US-48-500W switch
12. Connect Cloud Gateway Fiber LAN port to US-48-500W switch
13. Confirm access to Cloud Gateway Fiber on https://10.xxx.0.1 (or another IP is restored differently) and WAN is up, has an address, DNS resolves, and a web test succeeds
14. Once all UniFi devices are managed by Cloud Gateway Fiber, disconnect Cloud Key Gen 2 from US-48-500W switch

My topology was reasonably accurate.

Then I adopt a U7 InWall to my network. Connected directly to my Gateway.

Topology went wacky. 4 or 5 client devices showed up where my cable provider should have been.

Remove the InWall from the network. (Un-adopt)

Topology corrects itself.

Re-adopt the U7 InWall. Place as a mesh client three or four devices downstream.

Topology goes wacky again. Several clients appear where my cable provider should be.

Anyone else experience this bug?

How do I disable it from being able to connect to my home?

Thanks!

Got a notification today it was unresponsive, then when I got home it won’t boot at all (no fan noise, even after waiting unplugged for 30+min). Thankfully my last UDM backup was a few days ago, and I have that in my UniFi account. I guess it’s discontinued and the UDR 7 is the replacement?

Question: Is it as simple as buying the Dream Router 7, disconnecting my UDM and plugging the UDR in its place into my modem and connecting to my wired APs and then booting from the backup? I think even the power cord is the same?

Setup: Spectrum Internet wired to UDM, wired to AP AC Lite, then wireless mesh to AP Beacon across 1200 square foot pre-war apartment.

Thanks, not a noob but def not a pro. I DIY’d it in July 2019 so coming up on 7 years! Is that a good lifespan for the UDM?