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    How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1

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    • bigbearB
      bigbear @JaredBusch
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      @jaredbusch said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

      @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

      Trying to update the thing with sudo so and then upgrade - firmwarelink and it says upgrade is an invalid command?

      You have a USG? It had to be adopted to a controller already. Or is this a new USG? One of the things I hate about the USG is initial adoption sucks balls.

      Got a new USG, the other site I setup I ended up giving up and deploying on a local machine. Setup a cloud Unifi controller, updated the new USG firmware, tried to set inform URL - just not showing up on the remote cloud controller at all. Not showing up in the apps either (chrome and ios app)

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @bigbear
        last edited by JaredBusch

        @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

        @jaredbusch said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

        @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

        Trying to update the thing with sudo so and then upgrade - firmwarelink and it says upgrade is an invalid command?

        You have a USG? It had to be adopted to a controller already. Or is this a new USG? One of the things I hate about the USG is initial adoption sucks balls.

        Got a new USG, the other site I setup I ended up giving up and deploying on a local machine. Setup a cloud Unifi controller, updated the new USG firmware, tried to set inform URL - just not showing up on the remote cloud controller at all. Not showing up in the apps either (chrome and ios app)

        Weird, you did all the right things. Never had a problem with set-inform. Just feel it is a pain in the ass.

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        • bigbearB
          bigbear @JaredBusch
          last edited by bigbear

          @jaredbusch said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

          @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

          @jaredbusch said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

          @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

          Trying to update the thing with sudo so and then upgrade - firmwarelink and it says upgrade is an invalid command?

          You have a USG? It had to be adopted to a controller already. Or is this a new USG? One of the things I hate about the USG is initial adoption sucks balls.

          Got a new USG, the other site I setup I ended up giving up and deploying on a local machine. Setup a cloud Unifi controller, updated the new USG firmware, tried to set inform URL - just not showing up on the remote cloud controller at all. Not showing up in the apps either (chrome and ios app)

          Weird, you did all the right things. Never had a problem with set-inform. Just feel it is a pain in the ass.

          Ironically what just worked, in an instant was setting the inform-url for SSH. Showed up instantly...

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          • bigbearB
            bigbear
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            well, At least its "adopting".. fingers crossed

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            • bigbearB
              bigbear
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              In SSH, I went back and did a set-inform again (as the first time it gave this feedback below) then in about 10 seconds it started provisioning...

              So maybe that is the best way to hard set it?

              Adoption request sent to 'http://x.x.x.x:8080/inform'.

              1. please adopt it on the controller
              2. issue the set-inform command again
              3. <inform_url> will be saved after device is successfully managed
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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @bigbear
                last edited by

                @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

                In SSH, I went back and did a set-inform again (as the first time it gave this feedback below) then in about 10 seconds it started provisioning...

                So maybe that is the best way to hard set it?

                Adoption request sent to 'http://x.x.x.x:8080/inform'.

                1. please adopt it on the controller
                2. issue the set-inform command again
                3. <inform_url> will be saved after device is successfully managed

                This is always how I do it with any UniFi device that needs manually pointed to the controller.

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                • bigbearB
                  bigbear
                  last edited by

                  Now that the controller has taken over I lost my second WAN port. Christ...

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @bigbear
                    last edited by

                    @bigbear said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

                    Now that the controller has taken over I lost my second WAN port. Christ...

                    Dual WAN? I would never even attempt to use a USG in that scenario. Not even sure it can.

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                    • bigbearB
                      bigbear
                      last edited by

                      Second LAN port, typo...

                      I was using the lan/wan as a second port and once provisioning USG decided it would be disabled.

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                      • hobbit666H
                        hobbit666
                        last edited by

                        When I run this command

                        apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50

                        I get this message:-

                        Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.8Iu0CA5dVp/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available
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                        • hobbit666H
                          hobbit666
                          last edited by

                          Maybe should add installing on Debian9 (followed Jared's guide) on internal VM internally.

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch @hobbit666
                            last edited by

                            @hobbit666 said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

                            Maybe should add installing on Debian9 (followed Jared's guide) on internal VM internally.

                            Did you run this as root or use sudo?

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                            • hobbit666H
                              hobbit666 @JaredBusch
                              last edited by

                              @jaredbusch ur yes lol.

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                              • hobbit666H
                                hobbit666 @JaredBusch
                                last edited by

                                @jaredbusch
                                SSH into my server via putty. Logged in as the user unifi01 when at the prompt did the

                                su -

                                ran all the commands above but had the error on the key import.

                                I'll try running direct on the VM console.

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                                • hobbit666H
                                  hobbit666 @hobbit666
                                  last edited by

                                  Still the same on console

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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch @hobbit666
                                    last edited by

                                    @hobbit666 said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

                                    Still the same on console

                                    Very odd as it works jsut fine for me even with sudo.

                                    jbusch@deb9-demo:~$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50
[sudo] password for jbusch: 
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.DyMKqzXPlf/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50
gpg: key 06E85760C0A52C50: "UniFi Developers <[email protected]>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
jbusch@deb9-demo:~$
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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @hobbit666
                                      last edited by

                                      @hobbit666 let me blow this system back to snapshot and do it again.

                                      Side note: I said to su - to root because you cannot cat the apt list file from sudo and there are so few commands to set this up. Technically it can all be done from your user with sudo if you use nano or vi to create the list file.

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                                      • hobbit666H
                                        hobbit666
                                        last edited by

                                        SOLVED!!!!
                                        Changed the router, firewall must of been blocking.

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                                        • CCWTechC
                                          CCWTech
                                          last edited by CCWTech

                                          When using Vultr is it just https://unifi.hostname.vultr.com:8443 ?

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                                          • dbeatoD
                                            dbeato @CCWTech
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                                            @ccwtech said in How to install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Debian 9.1:

                                            When using Vultr is it just https:\unifi.hostname.vultr.com:8443 ?

                                            If you have a vultr hostname then yes, otherwise you create a DNS record pointing to your Vultr WAN IP.

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