Ubiquiti is a U.S. based technology company which has a wide array of wireless products. UniFi is Ubiquiti’s product family for enterprise Wi-Fi that contains access points, switches and router-firewalls. All UniFi products are centrally managed by a single application.
Petri Riihikallio is a certified Ubiquiti Enterprise Wireless Administrator (UEWA-V2) and Ubiquiti Broadband Wireless Administrator (UBWA-V2).
Centrally managed Enterprise WiFi doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg
If you are using my script to Set up UniFi Controller on Google Cloud Platform and you have been affected by the Let’s Encrypt root certificate roll over, you will need this fix. Just Stop and then Start your virtual machine in Google Cloud Console. This will update the VM with new code. Presuming of course that … Continue reading “Fix GCP UniFi Controller certificate issue”
This is a walkthrough of the Google Cloud Platform virtual machine startup script to launch full featured Unifi Controllers on demand.
Modern WiFi coverage is needed in older residential houses as well. It isn’t always easy to achieve. Here are a couple of design points to consider.
If you have a very small deployment, you don’t need to set up a UniFi Controller at all. You can get by just using the iOS mobile app.
Google offers one free virtual machine on Google Cloud Platform. This script will make setting up a UniFi Controller on GCP a breeze and it includes all the goodies. No command line required, everything is done in the GCP Console and it takes 15 minutes total and that includes transferring your current sites to the cloud. You should try this!
UniFi network devices share common management through UniFi Controller. However, how all the pieces fit together is not obvious at first sight.