Home assistant Unifi controller

Third party integrations
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Hi @jaroprofe, personally whilst the controller installed ok in HA, I had endless issues with devices being adopted, then dropping out of adoption, pending adoption etc. I worked on this for weeks but without success. In the end I installed a Unifi controller instance outside of HA on the same host as what hosts my HA instance and not had a single issue since. Thanks

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Hi @scottda thanks for your quick response.
I looked for the solution of the addon because I have installed Home Assistant OS and the Raspberry is completely occupied with this operating system.
I would have to migrate everything to a supervised installation in docker for example and I don’t know if it’s a simple process.
How do you have it installed?
Thank you.

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Hi. I run a PC with a Windows host, I then run Oracle VirtualBox with a VM hosting the HA instance. I installed the Unifi controller on the native Windows host and it works a treat, not a single issue since. Hope that helps. thanks

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Indeed, that’s how I have it at work with a NUC and it works very well, although from time to time the virtual drive closes, but at home I use a Raspberry and I don’t know if installing Windows as native is the best option.

On the other hand, going back to the addon, in the documentation it says the following:

-Toggle Override Inform Host.
-Change the Host for Inform to match the IP or hostname of the device running Home Assistant.

I don’t know where this is changed and I don’t know if this affects device integration.

Thank you.

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sorry @jaroprofe I am not able to advise you on this as I no longer have it installed within my HA instance as its sitting natively on my Windows host now. Hopefully someone here is able to help you out re this question. thanks and good luck

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Hello @scottda

I already have the system working wonderfully in my Home Assistant Addon
The key was to put the IP where the Unifi server is hosted in System/Advanced/Host for Inform

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Thank you.

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@scottda Hey Darren, I had the same experience. I don’t think the UniFi Network Application is the same thing, ie it is not a “controller” Did you ever find the controller to add on? Thanks,

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Last week, I had a separate Raspberry Pi as a controller, which worked well, and I could also monitor my network on my smartphone using an iPhone app from the App Store. Now, I’ve used the Home Assistant add-on, which works very well. However, the iPhone app doesn’t connect to my Unifi system. Previously, when I was still working on the old Raspberry Pi, it was always a ‘direct connection’. However, now with the add-on, it seems to want to connect via the cloud. When I log in to ui.com, there’s a reference to an IP address that is incorrect, but I can’t parse this anywhere to my WAN IP.