Unifi set inform install#

Open the controller and you should now see the device.This will put the device into recovery mode hold the reset button down on the USW-Flex-Mini until the light flashes white and blue.plug the USW-Flex-Mini in a port on the main switch that is on the main LAN network.Here are the steps we had to take to get the USW-Flex-Mini to adopt on a remote controller. This turned out to be an issue and I was called in to help.

Within minutes, he noticed there was no SSH server on the mini and since the controller was in the cloud, it wasn’t showing up for adoption in the controller.

Unifi set inform install#

This is a simple install, no hard SSH commands so we decided to send a young tech out to have his first solo install done. We could power it with POE, link it back to his core switch and have his devices in his office hard wired (some of them can’t be on wifi). After doing some research for his needs, we came to the conclusion that the flex mini was the best choice. The challenge was we couldn’t run a new cable and the home owner didn’t want to spend a lot of money as this was for his home office. For MSPs or tech enthusiates, this brings on unique challenges with some of the new products unifi is deploying.įor us, recently we installed a USW-Flex-Mini in a home that only had 1 ethernet port but needed more.

With recent changes to unifi, a lot of their push seems to be to not have controllers “in the cloud” but for you to buy a controller or a pro device with the controller built in. This allows all your customers devices to report back to a simple dashboard for you to manage. The most common use case for this is to have a unifi controller “in the cloud”. MSP’s like ourselves love the ability to manage remote networks for our clients. The unifi line is becoming more and more popular as the months go by.