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Everyone,

Have any of you installed ubiguiti wireless routers on your network?

It looks like the setup requires the use of software; they have some packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat

https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro

Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on CentOS 7.4?

Greg Ennis

14 thoughts on - Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

  • Yup, I use one at home. I’m very happy with it.

    Yup. It works fine, and can be fairly easily packaged up as an RPM
    (although I can’t redistribute the package because of the licensing).

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    Thanks very much Bill and Jim !!!!!!!!

    Greg

  • I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the software onto your machine directly. If you do not have a power over ethernet switch you’ll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it but after that it takes care of running your software for you you don’t have to install anything on to your machine

  • William Warren wrote:

    One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration of their wireless infrastructure out of hands.

    Besides, Ubiquity makes nice devices, yet the lack of documentation makes them pretty useless.

  • The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same management software, on your network, rather than installing the software onto a Linux server…it’s literally the difference between an ethernet connected (and powered, if you have a PoE switch) device running the software or running it on a full fledged computer.

    There’s no giving of the maintenance to someone else’s hands.

  • Mike Burger wrote:

    You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes? Why don´t they call it just that …

  • Because that’s not the only function…it’s the control center for your entire Ubiquity Ubifi network…APs, switches, routers, I guess.


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  • Mike Burger wrote:

    Has anyone tried it? I´d like to know if it´s more helpful than the cli and the GUI built into their routers.

    For the lack of documentation, it hasn´t been possible to set up things the way they should be, and nobody on their forum is able or willing to answer questions.

    Thus Ubiquity is a dead end. I can only recommend not to buy anything they make before they come up with decent documentation.

  • I’m about to deploy an entire Ubiquity network in my new house, on the recommendation of someone whom I highly respect in the networking arena.

    I opted to purchase the CloudKey, instead of installing the RPM packages on an existing server, as my new situation won’t afford me the same internet connectivity options as I’ve enjoyed, to this point. Given that and the fact that I’m still in dire need of migrating my (gasp) C5 installation to C7, I’m moving most of my internet server functionality to the cloud before I rebuild my existing server.

  • There is an existng repo that contains both SRPM and binary packages for CentOS 7. As the srpms are provided as well you may easily rebuild them for your other rpm based distro

    http://dl.marmotte.net/rpms/redhat/el7/x86_64/ check the unifi-controller dirs.

    I’m using those pkgs and they are flawless.

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  • _>_
    To install just the one access point, just download their app on your phone and configure it. Very easy.

    For a full Ubiquity network you can install the software on a Linux machine or buy the Cloud key, same software running on a small RaspberryPi like box (needs POE connection). Makes managing the components much much easier.

    Paul Schoonderwoerd Pollux IT

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  • I have several Ubiquiti UniFi access points (nitpick: they’re not routers, but access points) on the LAN here: 2 UAP-AC-HD, 5 UAP-AC-Pro, and 4 UAP-AC-MeshPro outdoor units.

  • Hi Lamar –

    A few questions about this …

    1) The resolution of “unifi” by DNS is to the machine hosting the Unifi Controller software. Is that correct?

    2) I tried creating a cname in my DNS like this:

    update add unifi 86400 cname vmserver5.billgee.local

    but nsupdate gives me back a “Update failed: NOTZONE” error. If I make it be
    “unifi.billgee.local” then nsupdate takes it without complaint. I also tried creating “unifi” as an A record and pointing to the IPv4 address of the server. Same return from from nsupdate.

    How did you add an FQDN of “unifi” to your DNS?

    I only have one access point and it is already in the Unifi Controller, so this is for me an academic exercise. Others, though, might find it useful.

    It seems to me the purpose of this record in DNS is to allow the access point to find the Unifi Controller. Therefore, adding it to the hosts file on other machines is of no use.

  • Yes, that’s correct. I added a new zone to /etc/named.conf for the ZONE ‘unifi’ pointing to a host file ‘unifi.hosts’ containing an A record for ‘unifi.’ as well as the SOA, NS, etc records. That trailing dot is important.