Thanks everyone for your contributions to this project.
Is it currently possible or planned to have a sensor for the UDM’s Internet activity up & down?
Hi Edwin,
curious to learn which provider you use. This seems to be a reason enough to switch to another doesn’t it? I mean, if you’re ready to by 3 of those AP’s, switching providers to get better service would be step 1?
tbh, I’ve never understood why people would want to control their Unifi ecosystem from within Ha. Seems such an important infrastructure of the modern home, it needs its dedicated control, outside of HA (so also following this thread to get some info on that)
It is KPN, one of the biggest in the Netherlands. I sort of understand why it’s not that easy because in order to support IPTV and VOIP different VLANs are required, together with IGMP snooping on switches. I can choose other providers over the same glass fiber connection, but the best other provider is also owned by KPN and more expensive, and the others are not likely to be any better.
Some people managed to get it working without the KPN router using a dream machine pro, but throughput speeds are less and it requires scripting that won’t survive a router firmware upgrade. That is also a serious downside. Plus it isn’t supported, so if it doesn’t work I’m on my own. What if the scrips no longer work with a new firmware release?
I do not want to rely on my provider hardware for wifi. I now also have access points I bought myself, so buying unifi AP’s is separate from my choice of providers, which in itself delivers high quality.
But I’m hesitant to pay an extra eur 450,= for a router that may or may not work that well with this or any other provider. And researching what would and would not work with any of the other providers I can use is also a big hassle. Researching it all for KPN took me quite a while, but the info is there. I doubt I can find this much on any of the other providers. So that would be even more of a hail mary.
As for relying on HA: As far as I can tell it is advised to have the stuff running, but not critical. It shouldn’t be. And I can always pick another device for the management software. So I do not see it as a critical component. It is rather a downside of Unify that AP’s need it IMHO.
well, I get that 
seems if you dont have the Dreammachine yet, and no Unifi AP’s either, this would not be the way to go for you.
And that would be the major issue imho. Since you’re obviously very well informed and knowledgeable, I wouldn’t dare to ask if you didnt miss any detail. It’s almost unbelievable KPN would be so backward in hardware services.
Compared to that, Ive had my Ziggo cablemodem (non fiber, 900+ DL) in Bridgemode since forever, no issues at all with Unifi DMP, and its AP’s because of that.
I do have a relative in Almere on fiber, and yes he’s got his fiber directly in the DMP (although the provider did install their own hardware too). Seems to fly.
Not sure whether its KPN though, although I’d imagine that would really be of no consequence.
Has anyone been able to POE shut off access points at night?
Just for some reason, I can t add the APs to the list in Network Access Control Clients list?
Hi everyone,
I had the unifi controller beta software running on my Raspberry Pi. Because that version is newer (7.3.76) than the version of this add-on (7.2.95) I cannot restore my backup.
I’m trying to alter the original add-on so it uses the 7.3.76 DEB file and install it as a local add-on, but I cannot get the docker file to work. I’m getting errors on the ‘apt-get install’ commands:
The command ‘/bin/bash -o pipefail -c apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends binutils=2.34-6ubuntu1.3 jsvc=1.0.15-8 libcap2=1:2.32-1 logrotate=3.14.0-4ubuntu3 mongodb-server=1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3 openjdk-8-jdk-headless=8u342-b07-0ubuntu1~20.04’ returned a non-zero code: 100
Does anyone have a way of installing/upgrading to ubiquiti controller 7.3.76. Or perhaps knows how to fix the ‘non-zero code:100’.
Thanks
I also forked the original add-on, and added it to HA via a github repository. But again the installation fails with a non-zero code: 100
The command ‘/bin/bash -o pipefail -c apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends binutils=2.34-6ubuntu1.3 jsvc=1.0.15-8 libcap2=1:2.32-1 logrotate=3.14.0-4ubuntu3 mongodb-server=1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3 openjdk-8-jdk-headless=8u342-b07-0ubuntu1~20.04 && curl -J -L -o /tmp/unifi.deb “https://dl.ui.com/unifi/7.3.76/unifi_sysvinit_all.deb” && dpkg --install /tmp/unifi.deb && apt-get clean && rm -fr /tmp/* /var/cache/* /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/log/*.log /var/log/apt’ returned a non-zero code: 100
With most recent version of the addon (v2.5.0) it often (once a few weeks) die. If my memory serves me well, I saw another similar report already. Before this version addon was rock-stable.
Are there any logs that may provide any information for the developer?
HA becomes complete unresponsive with 1-30 minutes of starting this addon… Any ideas what to look for? HA install is solid until I start this.
USG refuses to adopt after HA restart. I’ve noticed this again after updating to 2023.2.0 I solve this by SSH into the USG and do a set-inform http://172.16.0.18:8080/inform
In the log: Feb 2 17:47:05 ubnt mcad: mcad[2128]: ace_reporter.reporter_fail(): initial contact failed #1, url=http://172.30.33.3:8080/inform, rc=11
But I don’t know what the origin of this IP-address is. Anyone who encountered this? I’m using NGINX Proxy manager, the Unifi console runs as an add-on on a Odroid N2+
To answer my own question, forgotten to set inform host 
- Go to the settings (gears icon in the bottom left) → System → Application Configuration.
- Toggle
Override Inform Host. - Change the
Host for Informto match the IP or hostname of the device running Home Assistant. - Hit the “Apply Changes” button to activate the settings.
Is it possible to CLI into the Unifi install? I somehow ended up with two sites, a “default” that is blank, and my “NamedSite” that has everything. I’d like to make my Named site the default but the only way to do that is through CLI
https://ubntwiki.com/guides/changing_the_default_site_in_unifi
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I just found this add-on and it seems cool!
I currently run my controller on my local pc which is in Home vlan and would want to change to use this instead. My homeassistant runs in iot vlan but my firewall allows Homeassistant traffic to home vlan where my ap + USW-LITE-8-POE are.
Do I need to configure something additional than override inform host with controller hostname/IP after importing backup file? Asking becacuse after importing backup file and changing that setting those two devices are still “Offline”.
How to change the inform port permanently on the unifi devices? I already did set-inform and all devices successfully connected but after some days, it reverts to adopting and the device logs shows it is trying to port 8080.
I had to change the inform port because it is conflicting with Silabs addon UI.
I recently installed this add-on and tried to adopt an UAP-AC lite. The add-on gets stuck in an infinite “Adopt state” and my Raspberry Pi 4 overheats and crashes. Is it too much to ask of a Raspberry Pi 4 with 1gb to run this add-on or do you have any ideas what I can do?
1GB is not enough to run HA and this add-on. It is very memory hungry due to the fact it is Java and uses MongoDB. Even on a 4GB Rpi4 it uses about 25-30% of the available RAM. I have limited mine to 512Mb on startup and a max of 769MB (but it still goes over these settings).
Thanks then it confirms what I suspected.
Do we have any intel on when the latest controller version 7.3.83 will be available for HA, it was released almost a month ago now ?
Has anyone had an issue where no traffic identification shows up (I have traffic identification turned on in the settings). This worked when I had my server installed on a machine. Now that I have it installed as an integration with HA I seem to have lost this ability. Wondering if its a bug or I misconfigured something.
Hi,
Working fine on my add-on (latest).
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