How to install Ubiquiti mFi and/or UniFi software in a FreeNAS jail

[Scharbag]

Boooo to Ubiquiti on this one. Now it is on a Winblows VM in VirtualBox. Nothing like tying up extra resources.

 

[snaptec]

Why the hell a win vm for that?
I have the Controller running on ubuntu and macos without Problems.


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[Scharbag]

Tried a Debian VM, it crashed on me. So, I used a Windows VM that already is running. Regardless, VBox running a VM seems like more overhead than is really necessary compared to a simple BSD jail.

Ubiquiti is a bad, bad company for being like this...

 

[Pistolwhip]

I've had good luck running the available unifi5 port in a jail: https://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/unifi5

Minimal setup, and hasn't crashed. The one tricky bit is that you might require a temporary ipv4 alias if you're doing provisioning and don't want to set your network to the default 192.168.1.x that ubquiti forces.

I loosely followed the process here https://wiki.mattrude.com/FreeNAS/Unifi_Controller_Install

 

[Borja Marcos]

The ports for Unifi4 and 5 (4.8.20_1 and 5.2.9) have just been updated. It's a simple matter to install them in a jail, a friend tried the other day. And meanwhile I am tracking the betas and stable versions for my home networks, and manual installs work perfectly.

mFi is tricky: it relies on an old version of Mongodb due to API incompatibilities between branches. I have it running on FreeBSD 11 but using Mongodb version 2.4.10. Other than that no major issues.

The advantage of a jail is much less bloat. You don't have to keep two kernels competing for resources.

 

[Borja Marcos]

For example, I wasn't successful getting the recent 5.2.7 running in my current jail but it did work in the Debian VM. Just a thought for anyone having difficulty with a traditional Jail.

What did you try? It should work with minimal tinkering.

 

[MisterIce]

Thank you for this. Got version 5.2.9 installed :D

 

[DrKK]

Yeah, I can confirm, I just installed Unifi 5 straight money from the ports tree. Of course, there were like 2 hours of dependencies to be compiled, and ten million warning messages. But, it sure as hell worked, out of the box, with no special voodoo needed.

 

[Borja Marcos]

Ubiquiti is a bad, bad company for being like this...

I'm going to play the devil's advocate here, but there are much worse!

So far they are providing what they call a "homebrew" version for unsupported Unix systems, which is great. I hope they will keep doing it!

 

[travanx]

Does post #49 work to upgrade to 5.2.9?

 

[Scharbag]

I'm going to play the devil's advocate here, but there are much worse!

So far they are providing what they call a "homebrew" version for unsupported Unix systems, which is great. I hope they will keep doing it!

Yeah, I know :)

They make great schtuff. Now I just fire UniFi on a Winblows VM that runs a few other silly things and call it a day.

Viva Ubiquiti!!

Now if I can just figure out how to get my PowerBeam radios to connect with a 30MHz channel!!

 

[HardDrv00]

Here are my notes for UniFi 5.3.8 in a FreeNAS-9.10.1-U4 standard jail (FreeBSD 10.3). Previously I ran UniFi 4.8.15 and 5.2.9 in the same manner. I can't recall if I tried an upgrade in place for 5.2.9, for 5.3.8 I created a new jail and restored the UniFi backup.

Some of the steps are from the OP #1 and www.digitalocean.com...How To Install MongoDB on FreeBSD 10.1.

- Create standard jail, autostart=chk vimage=chk, NAT=unchk
- ssh into jail

Code:

pkg lock pkg-1.4.12
pkg install py27-setuptools27 devel/libexecinfo devel/pcre archivers/snappy devel/boost-libs scons v8 R-cran-DBI nano sudo wget tmux openjdk-jre

sudo pkg update -f
sudo pkg install mongodb

nano /etc/rc.conf
		mongod_enable="YES"

pkg lock mongodb-2.6.12
pkg unlock pkg-1.4.12
pkg update && pkg upgrade
sysrc mongod_enable="YES"

** restart jail, ssh back **

Code:

service mongod status
cd /
wget http://dl.ubnt.com/unifi/5.3.8/UniFi.unix.zip

unzip UniFi.unix.zip
ln -s /usr/local/bin/mongod /UniFi/bin/mongod

sysrc local_enable="YES"
echo /usr/local/bin/tmux new-session -d "/usr/local/bin/java -jar /UniFi/lib/ace.jar start" > /etc/rc.local
chmod +x /etc/rc.local

wget http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/release_1/All/snappyjava-1.0.4.1_1.txz
tar vfx snappyjava-1.0.4.1_1.txz
cp ./usr/local/share/java/classes/snappy-java.jar /UniFi/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar

- the end

 

[raidflex]

So is this reliable enough to run in a Jail, wondering if anyone has experienced any issues with functionality or problems in general. Just got a Unifi AP and debating whether to install in a jail or just use an Odroid C2 that I already have.

 

[DrKK]

So is this reliable enough to run in a Jail, wondering if anyone has experienced any issues with functionality or problems in general. Just got a Unifi AP and debating whether to install in a jail or just use an Odroid C2 that I already have.

Works fine for me. I made a fresh jail, and simply installed unifi from ports. Didn't have to do anything special, and it works awesome now for several months.

 

[raidflex]

I just tried to install 5.4.9 from ports earlier today and it wasn't found. All the links seemed dead.

 

[HardDrv00]

So is this reliable enough to run in a Jail, wondering if anyone has experienced any issues with functionality or problems in general. Just got a Unifi AP and debating whether to install in a jail or just use an Odroid C2 that I already have.

After the initial setup, no issues with the UniFi (software) controller. I have one UAP-AC-PRO, no domain defined, two wlans. I had the guest portal enabled for awhile which requires a running controller but disabled it since it didn't add anything for my needs.

I just tried to install 5.4.9 from ports earlier today and it wasn't found. All the links seemed dead.

I haven't been successful with the ports install as discussed in this other thread,
Little over my head. Hoping to get Unifi Controller installed in FreeNAS. I installed mine with the steps in #77

 

[raidflex]

After the initial setup, no issues with the UniFi (software) controller. I have one UAP-AC-PRO, no domain defined, two wlans. I had the guest portal enabled for awhile which requires a running controller but disabled it since it didn't add anything for my needs.


I haven't been successful with the ports install as discussed in this other thread,
Little over my head. Hoping to get Unifi Controller installed in FreeNAS. I installed mine with the steps in #77

Wierd I just went on Ubiquiti website and I can't even find 5.4.9 for any platform, all I see is 5.3.11. Anyone else notice this or is it just me.

 

[HardDrv00]

Wierd I just went on Ubiquiti website and I can't even find 5.4.9 for any platform, all I see is 5.3.11. Anyone else notice this or is it just me.

I don't see 5.4.9 published. This post from 2 weeks UniFi 5.4.9 Stable has been released announced that it was.

 

[raidflex]

I don't see 5.4.9 published. This post from 2 weeks UniFi 5.4.9 Stable has been released announced that it was.

It was there yesterday because I downloaded it for a Windows system to test out the AP.

 

[HardDrv00]

It was there yesterday because I downloaded it for a Windows system to test out the AP.

Not to keep adding posts about Ubiquiti software... at the bottom of UniFi 5.4.9 Stable has been released announcement:

Download:

• Download links pulled
• RADIUS profiles may not properly migrate at the time of upgrade to 5.4.x. This will cause your previously encrypted SSID(s) to come up as open. We've pulled releases until both controller and firmware are fixed.

Earlier versions in the 5.x.x train are not available in the ports tree so portdowngrade is not an option. Otherwise I've read you can edit the Makefile and distinfo in the port for an older version. Unless you need the latest version just install an earlier revision with packages.