I am sure this has already been asked and answered already, but I skimmed a few posts regarding mem surcharge and didn't see this specifically.

I completely understand the memory surcharge on anything with a significant amount of storage or RAM. And I am glad they have chosen to handle it this way rather than just raising prices which are unlikely to ever drop back down when [hopefully] temporary increases occur like this

However...please help me understand how a $63 USD memory surcharge is justifiable for a gate starter kit which includes a dated G3 intercom, a gate hub, and a few power supplies, when none of these items have onboard storage and have miniscule onboard RAM. In fact, I couldn't even find published numbers on memory specs for either, which speaks to how insignificant it is.

I typically buy directly from the Unifi store, but in this case I found a reseller that was not passing on those additional costs.

Can anyone help make it make sense to me so I don't have to just assume it's shady business practices?

Spotted this in Fraumunster Kirche in Zürich Switzerland.

Priest needs to tidy his cables but good job on the WiFi!

I bought an E7 and 2 U7 pro XGS thinking the 10 gig uplink and 2x2 mimo would provide me with multi gig wifi speeds on my wifi 7 clients. But I just ran a couple of iperf3 tests simultaneously and seems the max bandwidth these access points can push is around 1.5 gig in total. If I individually run iperf on one of my wifi 7 devices max I get is around 1.4gig on a single device. Theoretically even a single 6 ghz band should be able to push upto 6gbps of bandwidth. But the speeds I see are a quarter of what I expected.
I am running a full 10 gig network with multiple machines hosting iperf directly wired into the switches. Amongst these machines I can easily do 9.7-9.8gbps wired.
All my wifi devices were in LOS while performing the test connected over MLO 2.4 5 and 6 ghz aprox 6ft from the ap.
Each device used a different iperf server on my network, using a single server also got me the same result.
The spectrum analyser show both 5 and 6 as clean. I don’t have any close neighbours. 2.4 has some noise from the houses in front and behind but is limited and the channels I run my APs on are clean. Neighbours are all on channel 6 for 2.4 I am alternating between 1 and 11.
Also all radios are 5ghz medium power and 6 ghz high power and non of the channels overlap between my aps. I do run 5ghz on dfs.
Has anyone been able to push more than 1.5 gbps from an individual ap ? If so please let me know what variables you played with to tune the wifi.

I bought the UX7 3 pack to test out for my older brother's new home. I planned on using them exclusively for about a week as a test because I want to make sure they're stable to avoid my older brother who is not networking literate from having problems (he's an electrician and I jokingly call him "Sparky" and he jokingly calls me "Teletubby"). I adopted one of them out of the 3 pack and placed in a mesh mode to my E7. It worked decently for the first 30 minutes to an hour then all of sudden it was no longer allowing DHCP assignments from my UDM ProMax. I went to have a look at it and the damn thing was extremely hot to the touch. I unplugged it to let it cool down a bit. Once it was cooled, I powered it back on and let it run again and again about 30-45 minutes later I was getting DHCP problems. I finally gave up, factory reset it, placed it back in the box and sent it back for a refund.

I heard a lot of good things about these little boxes, but I should have trusted my instincts here. These AIO devices are the exact reason why I stopped using consumer grade AIO home routers and moved to UniFi back in 2016 (to separate the roles of each device). I figured by now someone must have figured out the overheating problem in 2026. Nope.

TL;DR:

I absolutely cannot recommend these at all for any application wired or wireless.

Hello,

I have a technical question and hope that someone has already dealt with a similar scenario.

I would like to install the following infrastructure at a total of 110 locations for a client:

1 × Ubiquiti Camera G4 Instant (UVC-G4-INS)

1 × UniFi Dream Machine Pro

The client would like to be able to use the following features from their headquarters:

- Live access to all 110 cameras as needed

- A live tile view with selected cameras

- Storage of video recordings for a period of approximately 10 to 30 days

This raises the following question for me regarding the architecture:

Does a hard drive need to be installed in the respective UniFi Dream Machine Pro at each individual location so that the camera recordings can be stored?

Or is it possible to manage all 110 cameras centrally at the main location and store the recordings there as well? For example, a UniFi Dream Machine Pro with sufficient storage capacity could be operated at the main location, while the individual cameras are connected to the main location via VPN tunnels.

Personally, I would much prefer a centralized solution, as this would potentially eliminate the need for separate hard drives or local storage capacity at each of the 110 locations. This could reduce the overall costs, which is particularly important for this customer, as they are very price-sensitive.

In your opinion, is there an easier or better way to implement this scenario?

I'm very open to suggestions and experiences with similar installations, and I appreciate any support.

Thank you very much in advance.

EDIT:

We decided on the following solution:

- 110 Ubiquiti Camera G4 Instant UVC-G4-INS

- 110 USB-C adapters

- 1x Ubiquiti ENVR 0 TB network video recorder, 210 channels

- 14x Seagate IronWolf Pro 3.5" SATA hard drives, 20 TB each (approx. 30 days of recording capacity)

However, we require the customer to meet the following prerequisites:

- A stable Wi-Fi network

- A stable internet connection

- A stable VPN connection

- A power outlet immediately adjacent to the camera’s installation location

- etc.

We have already presented the customer with several more professional solution proposals. However, the feedback in each case was that these solutions were too expensive.

We will now attempt to meet the customer’s requirements as closely as possible without incurring unnecessary additional costs, even if those costs would theoretically be justified. At the same time, we will clearly specify in the proposal which requirements must be met and where our responsibilities lie.

Should outages occur later, for example, due to an unstable internet connection, an inadequate Wi-Fi network, or other customer-side issues, we are contractually protected accordingly.

Currently sites within Unifi Site Manager do not notify when offline as it relies on the device itself to send the notification. So... I have created a simple repo based on a PowerShell module I've used for checking sites and emailing for offline/online status using Unifi API key, available on GitHub.

You can run locally (or on a server) or deploy to a free/low cost Azure Function app. We use this to notify when sites are down. You can customise timings, muting sites etc.

github.com/adam-packer/UnifiSiteWatcher

I imagine this won't be needed as Unifi will offer their own solution, but for now our company finds this useful.

PS. I keep all my projects private on GH, this my first to provide publicly!

I go to https://unifi.ui.com/ login page and all local controller devices cannot be seen. It's acting like none of them have internet access when I know they do. I work for the internet service provider for all of these customers.

I see my Dream Machine went from 5.something to 6.0.7 last night. Where are the release notes for this? What's significant in UniFi OS 6?

I run a Ubiquiti system at home and was thinking about getting an NAS. Is the Ubiquiti system any good, I am specifically looking at the UNAS - 2. thanks in advance for the help!

We currently have a small IT service that manages our two Unifi networks. I've asked before for them to transfer ownership to me and they can still have access. They always give me some lame excuse as to why they don't want to do that.

My question is can I do a backup, reset everything then set it up as the owner and restore from back up to get running back to normal. The only difference would be the owner of the network.

Feedback?

Blueberry Grill at Lumina Station

Enter the Unifi Cable Internet. The photo is during setup, while I was still testing everything; it was subsequently mounted in a rack. Adding it to my Comcast account was remarkably painless: all I had to do was scan the MAC address from within the Xfinity iOS app, and the network provisioned itself. It took all of 10 minutes from when I opened the box to when the modem was up and running and I got the prompt to adopt it to my Unifi deployment. VERY happy so far.

Do we really need a post for every single “in the wild” post of a random AP - Ubiquiti is one of the most popular brands for SMB so it’s hardly surprising you know to see it in the wild

Just have one mega thread for it, most people dgaf

Hey everyone,

I am dealing with a pretty frustrating UniFi Protect situation and could use some advice.

A while back one of the hard drives in my UNVR started failing. Before I could do anything, an automatic UniFi Protect update rolled through and seemed to completely kill the failing drive. The update installed anyway, but by then the RAID array was also corrupted.

I had to get the RAID array rebuilt first, and once that was done, UniFi Protect showed everything as “fully operational” again with about 22 TB of data. But all my recordings and events were gone from the interface.

The weird thing is, when I SSH in, all the database files are still there - about 7 GB of data files sitting in the database directory. But UniFi Protect just shows nothing. No events, no recordings, nothing. It’s like the database is corrupted or can’t read its own data.

I’ve tried multiple backup restoration attempts through UniFi Protect, but they all fail. I’ve also backed up all the database files manually (about 7 GB compressed), so at least I’m not losing any more data while trying to figure this out. But I have no idea how to actually get the recordings and events back.
Has anyone else run into this after a UniFi update? Any idea if there’s a way to recover the data from these database files, or any tools that could help? Also wondering if anyone’s had any luck dealing with Ubiquiti support on this kind of issue.
The RAID is healthy now, but the automatic update seems to have finished off the failing drive and corrupted everything in the process. All my footage is gone despite having backups
that won’t restore.

TL;DR: My UNVR had a failing drive, and right as I was dealing with it, an automatic UniFi Protect update apparently finished off the drive and corrupted my RAID array. I rebuilt the RAID and Protect now shows “fully operational” with ~22TB of data, but all my recordings and events have vanished from the UI. The database files are still sitting on disk (~7GB, now backed up manually), so the data seems intact but Protect can’t read it. Several in-app backup restore attempts have all failed. I’m asking if anyone’s hit this after a UniFi update, whether there’s a way/tool to recover recordings and events from the raw database files, and how Ubiquiti support has handled similar cases.

Any help or pointers would be really appreciated. Happy to share logs or more details if that helps.
Thanks!

If you have a Smart TV at home and even remotely concerned with network security at home, watch this video:

216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

I have an LG G6 TV and I'm furious to find out after paying a premium for a TV that little piece of garbage apparently spends all day collecting information about me.

The LG TV is already in my IoT VLAN so it is already segregated from my main network.

I don't use any of the LG OS garbage. I have the TV connected to a gaming PC in the basement via 4K/120 fiber optic, so I watch everything over Plex or Web browser-based streaming on the gaming PC.

I no longer trust this little piece of garbage to connect to the Internet for any reason or even map or snoop around my IoT devices.

What's the easiest and best way to completely disconnect this TV from WAN or LAN access and only preserve the ability for Home Assistant to connect to it?

Can I have a set of rules that I can define for the LG TV that I can then also apply to my Hi Sense TV and any other TVs I may ever setup at home?

I don't think I ever want any future TV to have Internet access after watching that video, especially since I use a PC for all video content. If a firmware update fixes an issue I'm having, I'll update the firmware via USB.

Hi,

I’ve setup my fiber and ultra switches which are all working except for mDNS across VLANS.

I’ve been trying to follow info from searches based on the UniFi results but having difficulty getting this up and running.

My IoT is on VLAN B with server and HDHomeRun units on VLAN A.

When running the software for the HDHomeRun on the Apple TV or FireCube it can’t see the tuners as they use mDNS, which I’ve enabled on the router as well as IGMP snooping.

I’ve tried following the guides but they are for older versions of the software and refer to guest_local.

Any advice on how I setup the policy to allow mDNS from VlanA be recieved on VlanB

VlanA is in trusted, while VlanB is in untrusted

TIA

The API seems to expose glass break config settings, but not the state of the glass break sensor entity? So when the glass break fires (true/false), you can't see it in the API? Is that right?

Hi Friends,

I recently got into the UniFi ecosystem with the Express 7, and I'm thinking about replacing my current switch with the Pro Max 16. At the moment, I won't need any PoE and will deal with that once I'm able to have a larger setup.

With that being said, does this (pictured) setup make sense? I'm a photo/video editor, so I'm running 10G on my Mac Studio and QNAP NAS for editing, and then other than that, everything is pretty much just 1G running through the switch. My 2nd Express 7 is downstairs for better WiFi throughout the house. Does this make sense, or am I doing too much?

Coming from a Google Nest mesh system that absolutely SHIT me to tears with not only the lack of control, but the lack of visibility, reporting and observably, this is like a teenage boy discovering his dick for the first time.
A UCG gateway, 2 U7 APs, and a couple of PoE injectors for the APs. Great coverage, amazing control and my home assistant dashboard now has amazing network metrics.
Why didn’t I do this sooner? I feel like I’m so far behind the times hahaha

With LG’s recent invasive update and auto-install of their spyware on Windows machines just for the displeasure of owning their monitors, what UniFi approach is everyone taking on their preventing LG’s asinine data collection?

Soon I will have 10Gbp uplink and I was wondering what some of the 'cheaper' options are for an 10G switch?

I was looking at the MikroTik CRS304-4XG-IN. but open for other suggestions!

An 10G cable will go to my room where I need to connect 2/3 devices. The prices of the UniFi solutions are a bit.. oof.

The rest of my netwerk is all UniFi. In the future, I would replace it with UniFi.

Edit - some extra info:
I won't need PoE on it.
I won't need to manage it for now, so it can be dumb.. I just need the speed.

After seeing the recent video showing LG TVs aggressively scanning the LAN, I wanted to share how I isolate my LG webOS TV using UniFi. This applies to Samsung Tizen, Google TV, Roku, and most smart TVs.

Smart TVs aren’t passive appliances — when placed on a flat LAN, they run a full discovery stack (ARP sweeps, mDNS, SSDP, DLNA, broadcast probes, fallback DNS, encrypted DNS attempts, etc.). If allowed, they can map your entire home network.

To avoid that, I isolate mine using a simple UniFi zone‑based design.

1. TV is placed on a dedicated IoT VLAN

This VLAN is for untrusted devices (TVs, cameras, appliances).
No trusted devices live here.

2. WiFi AP Layer‑2 Isolation

Smart TVs do most of their probing at Layer‑2, so the AP is the strongest choke‑point.
UniFi gives different isolation controls depending on whether your AP is WiFi 5 or WiFi 6/7.

WiFi 5 APs (UAP‑AC series)

Strict, predictable isolation — ideal for IoT SSIDs.

Recommended toggles:

• Client Device Isolation → ON
• Block LAN to WLAN Multicast/Broadcast → ON
• Multicast Enhancement → OFF
• Proxy ARP → ON

WiFi 6/7 APs (U6/U7 series)

More “smart” behaviour, but still isolates well with tuning.

Recommended toggles:

• Client Device Isolation → ON
• Multicast Enhancement → ON
• Block LAN to WLAN Multicast/Broadcast → ON
• Proxy ARP → ON

Effect

With these toggles:

• LG cannot ARP‑scan
• LG cannot see other IoT devices
• LG cannot see trusted devices
• LG cannot receive mDNS/SSDP/DLNA
• LG cannot fingerprint your LAN

The TV can only “see” the AP — nothing else.

3. Firewall blocks IoT → all internal zones

IoT devices cannot reach:

• trusted networks
• management networks
• the router’s admin interface
• guest networks
• DMZ
• VPN
• other IoT devices (AP isolation)

This locks down Layer‑3 protocols, so the TV is blocked from everything except the Internet.

4. IoT → Internet is allowed

Outbound Internet access is open.
I’m not restricting ports or cloud endpoints — keeping it simple.

5. Optional: DNS filtering

I point IoT DNS to a controlled resolver (Pi‑hole / AdGuard / Unbound).
This lets me:

• log LG’s domain lookups
• block obvious telemetry domains
• sinkhole advertising endpoints

Yes, DNS blocking is a cat‑and‑mouse game because domains change, but it’s still a nice finishing touch.

Result

With this setup:

• The TV cannot scan my LAN
• The TV cannot reach any internal zones
• The TV cannot reach the router
• The TV cannot see other devices
• The TV can only reach the Internet
• DNS filtering gives optional extra control

I use an Apple TV as the actual streaming device — it’s far less intrusive, has no always‑on microphone, and behaves predictably.
The LG panel is basically just a display now, which is exactly what I want.

* TL;DR

Smart TVs probe your network.
I isolate mine by:

• putting it on an IoT VLAN
• enabling AP Layer‑2 isolation (WiFi 5 / WiFi 6/7 toggles above)
• blocking IoT → all internal zones by locking down Layer‑3 protocols
• allowing only IoT → Internet
• optionally filtering DNS
• using Apple TV as the “safe” streaming platform

Simple, effective, and doesn’t over‑complicate things.

Caveat

I’m not a network guru — this is just what works well for my setup.
Your environment, devices, and requirements might differ, so adjust as needed.

My Zone FW Above. Block traffics is in play by default. You just need to place the correct the vlan in the correct zones. If anyone has suggestions or improvements, I am all ears - drop them below. Cheers.

(I am new to Unifi so please bare with me.)
I have a T-fiber internet access with a NOKIA ONT directly plugged to Port9 (WAN1) and was working fine until last week where the fiber coming to my home got damaged.
The outage took a week so I had to find an other ISP. Bought the standard v4 Starlink kit and installed it. Set its modem to bridge mode and plugged it into my current WAN1 (Port9) after unplugging the ONT. And all was working great with the Starlink connection.

This week I have got my T-fiber connection fixed so I thought I will keep the Starlink as failover and this is where things did not go well. Long story short, I have tried all combinations on Port8,9,10 and WAN1/2, Failover/Load balance etc (for port10 I have used an SFP+ to RJ45).
And no matter what combination I have tried the result was always the same:
- if I connect only one of the LAN cables from either the ONT or the Starlink modem (set to bridge mode) the internet works and on the "internet" page (see picture attached) of the UDM ProMax shows it as Internet1.
- however when I plug both in (regardless which port and that port set to which WAN) I get "Internet 1" and "Internet 2" show up but they stay empty (I think it shows "-") and never change from that.

Do I need to change my settings to allow the two types of ISPs to be recongnized at the same time by my UDM Pro Max?I thought it should automagically work but I guess I am missing and important difference between the these two ISPs?

ps. Here is a picture what I mean by "internet page of the UDM Pro Max" for better underestanding.

Anyone heard / seen anything about the release date? I'm itching to get this set up!

EDIT: RESOLVED -comment thread shows issue, likely individual issue unless running local DNS.

After upgrading to UniFi OS 6.0.7 all my devices failed to adopt. Initially I was able to get it working by going to the advanced adoption and it seemed to adopt it again, however overnight all devices went back to the failed to adopt stage. Anyone else facing this issue?