Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
You already mentioned not logging, updating a cloud key is pretty easy. I have one and it updates easily.
You mean the OS... updating the cloud key itself, not just the software on top of it?
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
You already mentioned not logging, updating a cloud key is pretty easy. I have one and it updates easily.
You mean the OS... updating the cloud key itself, not just the software on top of it?
yes - it's easy - at least manually it's easy - you click the upgrade button and it just does it. That also generally updates the controller software at the same time.
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Backups you have a point - but if you really only worry about backups when a change is made, then you don't really have to worry about it much.
though getting a new backup on each version, after a version upgrade, would be a good idea...
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
Backups you have a point - but if you really only worry about backups when a change is made, then you don't really have to worry about it much.
though getting a new backup on each version, after a version upgrade, would be a good idea...
When you are on a cloud key and it is $15 of hardware that could die any moment, you worry a bit more.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
If he truly wants hands off - I'd look at another solution where at minimum the hardware self updates - many home routers will do that - I'm guess most business class do not.
Unifi will do that. Basically no consumer equipment does.
Unifi will auto update when new firmware is released?
Yes
Depends but yes you can do that with the new schedule for updates of APs and other devices in the Unifi interface.
For the Unifi controller you can do auto upgrades just you might get some dependency errors from time to time related to mongodb and java.
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@coliver said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
If he truly wants hands off - I'd look at another solution where at minimum the hardware self updates - many home routers will do that - I'm guess most business class do not.
Unifi will do that. Basically no consumer equipment does.
Would you suggestion then be:
setup Vultr with $5/m VM, install Ubuntu/Debian, set to auto update daily
install Unifi controller
set unifi to update all devices daily?that could work.
The 5$ instance tends to break if you do any type of logging. I upgraded mine to the 10$ instance and haven't really had any issues.
That was ny experience but mostly because it was getting filled with logs even with the pruning scripts for mongodb provided by Unifi.
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I went with the ER-4 and a Unifi AP-Lite. Works perfect, and I'll just have to maintain it.
However, did anyone see Ubiquiti's new release? https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-dream-machine
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@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
I went with the ER-4 and a Unifi AP-Lite. Works perfect, and I'll just have to maintain it.
However, did anyone see Ubiquiti's new release? https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-dream-machine
Like all consumer stuff, who wants this crap in the middle of their living space?
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
I went with the ER-4 and a Unifi AP-Lite. Works perfect, and I'll just have to maintain it.
However, did anyone see Ubiquiti's new release? https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-dream-machine
Like all consumer stuff, who wants this crap in the middle of their living space?
I think the same way. This stuff should be hidden. I don't understand why companies think they should spend resources designing something "pretty."
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@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
I went with the ER-4 and a Unifi AP-Lite. Works perfect, and I'll just have to maintain it.
However, did anyone see Ubiquiti's new release? https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-dream-machine
Like all consumer stuff, who wants this crap in the middle of their living space?
I think the same way. This stuff should be hidden. I don't understand why companies think they should spend resources designing something "pretty."
Or mixing things together... the firewall and the AP.. generally, even at home they would not be in the same places.
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:
I went with the ER-4 and a Unifi AP-Lite. Works perfect, and I'll just have to maintain it.
However, did anyone see Ubiquiti's new release? https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-dream-machine
Like all consumer stuff, who wants this crap in the middle of their living space?
I think the same way. This stuff should be hidden. I don't understand why companies think they should spend resources designing something "pretty."
Or mixing things together... the firewall and the AP.. generally, even at home they would not be in the same places.
I guarantee they'll sell a bunch of those things. Mostly because people will think an all-in-1 device will make things "easy".
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@travisdh1 Yep, plus it is pretty, so it has to work well.
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Not sure anyone mentioned HostiFi. You can get a free account for a single site.
