Unifi on truecharts

[oumpa31]

I know Unifi in the truecharts isn't part of the main chart so i just wanted to check to see if anyone had gotten it to deploy properly. and if not has anyone gotten it to load using a docker image.

 

[guyp2k]

Deployed fine via Truecharts on 21.06.beta, imported config, and performed set inform on all switches and APs, no problem.

 

[oumpa31]

cool but i can't seem to get it to go active. did you use any special settings or just put the name for it and deploy it.

 

[guyp2k]

Yes, I had to specify where I wanted /config, which is on my SSD pool and created a unifi directory from the shell....

 

[oumpa31]

awesome thanks for the help. need to make dinner i'll be trying this later

 

[ornias]

@oumpa31 It should at least start using default settings.
If that isn't the case feel free to file a github issues for us to work on :)

Next time it might be faster directly contacting us via one of the options on our website ^^

 

[oumpa31]

@ornias I figured I'd ask here first because I seam to try to do too much with the initial setup which can cause issues I've found. lol. @guyp2k settings actually fixed the issue to get it loaded on my test server.

You guys are working hard on adding more apps and making sure the existing ones are working for 21.06 so I don't want to bother you guys unless its absolutely needed and something has to be fixed other than my understandings. lol.

 

[ornias]

USER=105299]@guyp2k[/USER] settings actually fixed the issue to get it loaded on my test server.

Thing is: Those settings shouldn't (tm) be needed ;-)
i'll make a mental node to check the defaults anyway ^^

 

[oumpa31]

Thing is: Those settings shouldn't (tm) be needed ;-)
i'll make a mental node to check the defaults anyway ^^

Ah. Well all I know is that it loaded up with out issue after I set those. lol. I wish I understood and knew more about the coding that went into creating the apps. I sure wish I could help more because since starting to play with Scale and my love with plex and getting live tv on it i have found 2 docker apps that I have set up and use in plex that work great.

 

[oumpa31]

So i finally had time to work on this other than getting it loaded so i uploaded a backup of my settings and it says there's no connection to anything on my network. I run a pfsence box do i have to set some sort of port forwarding even though I'm local on my network.

 

[murzik]

So i finally had time to work on this other than getting it loaded so i uploaded a backup of my settings and it says there's no connection to anything on my network. I run a pfsence box do i have to set some sort of port forwarding even though I'm local on my network.
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Make sure that all necessary container ports are exposed . TCP port 8080 is used by Unifi devices to connect to a controller.

I am running Unifi in docker container
jacobalberty/unifi
no issues at all, using host network.

 

[guyp2k]

So i finally had time to work on this other than getting it loaded so i uploaded a backup of my settings and it says there's no connection to anything on my network. I run a pfsence box do i have to set some sort of port forwarding even though I'm local on my network.
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Given this is a new instance of the Unifi Controller, you are going to have to adopt and provision those Unifi devices to the new controller. I just wrote a script that attaches to all my Unifi devices and set inform http://ip of new unifi controller......

 

[oumpa31]

Given this is a new instance of the Unifi Controller, you are going to have to adopt and provision those Unifi devices to the new controller. I just wrote a script that attaches to all my Unifi devices and set inform http://ip of new unifi controller......

It is a new instance but i used a backup to load up my existing setup.

 

[oumpa31]

Make sure that all necessary container ports are exposed . TCP port 8080 is used by Unifi devices to connect to a controller.

I am running Unifi in docker container
jacobalberty/unifi
no issues at all, using host network.

this is the one in truecharts: jacobalberty/unifi:6.2.25
Used Ports:36035\TCP, 8080\TCP, 3478\UDP

 

[guyp2k]

Understand, but you still have to adopt and provision to the new controller via set-inform, at least I did.

 

[oumpa31]

Understand, but you still have to adopt and provision to the new controller via set-inform, at least I did.

It's possible that is my issue. How did you go about doing that.

 

[ornias]

It's indeed the most likely you need layer 3 (ip based) inform like @guyp2k advices :)

 

[impovich]

It's possible that is my issue. How did you go about doing that.

If you have your old instance alive try to forget devices there and adopt them on the new instance.

 

[guyp2k]

You need to ssh into each device (or script) and login w/ same credentials as the controller and run the following command:

set-inform http://ip-of-host/new controller:8080/inform. Once you do that, you should see the unifi devices provisioning in the Unifi GUI.

 

[oumpa31]

You need to ssh into each device (or script) and login w/ same credentials as the controller and run the following command:

set-inform http://ip-of-host/new controller:8080/inform. Once you do that, you should see the unifi devices provisioning in the Unifi GUI.

This was exactly what I had to do. Thank you a ton. some of my access points are in very hard places to get to so resetting them manually would have been a pain.